Decendant of Edward Nowlan (1798

Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reasonwhy they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given atthe port of arrival rather than the port of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at (e.g.Liverpool, New York, etc.), this could be a good place to find more information. -And perhaps evenfind out an exact place of origin. Ellis Island:http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp Castlegarden:http://www.castlegarden.org/ US National Archives/Immigration info:http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/ The Boston Pilot; From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a?Missing Friends? column with advertisements from people looking for ?lost? friends and relativeswho had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 recordsis available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad thatappeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/ The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml Also try these links sir good luck.The National Archives of Irelandhttp://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/ The National Library of Irelandhttp://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx The Library & Archives of Canada -http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html

Hi Mark,

I'm not sure if you still come to this website. I have just learned this year that Edward is in my family tree. I'd love to share any information.

Hi, yes i do on occasion, or when i get an email saying someone has posted on the Ballon page.  That is very good to hear!  I was in Ballon back in 2013 and visited a graveyard looking for some of my decendants, i believe there was a hill and a large rock on it in Ballon that was some form of old burial ground?  I'm very interested, would love to come back over and visit when this pandemic is over...whenever that will be.  Wife and I went over and visited France, UK (visit a friend) and then to Ireland, and if i could find a job over there i'd move over tomorrow!!  What a gorgeous country! Wasn't entirely impressed with France...was quite amazed actually.   So, are you in the Ballon area?  I believe a Roger Nowlan did a lot of research back a number of years ago and he had pretty much completed the family tree, such that those two brothers he'd learned had left Ireland, reasons unknown, but met and married girls over here...of that i'm a decendant.  Its very nice to find "kin folk" even if you may be thousands of miles away!  Thanks so much for reaching out!  And yes i'm interested in what you know about your family tree!!

I am in New Brunswick.. I'd love to go to Ireland one day.. I always thought my family was only French, but embraced a new heritage.. :)

I think it's cool that Nowlan isn't too far up the line..

Hey Gerard!  what part of NB are you in???  I'm in NB as well.  Well, i'd bet you're family tree is almost just like mine, my grand mother was a Richard from Cap Pele and my grandfather was a decendant of one of those two, Edward.  My grandmothers family was from France but i can't find anything about their family tree.  I'm now happy to find out you're not a thousand miles away!!

I'm in Saint John. Edward Nowlan's daughter Ursula, from what I found on Ancestry, is my Grandfather's Grandmother.. Funny, my Grandfather Hebert married a Richard, Jude Richard is my Great Grandfather.. lol I know France is a hard place to search on, you'd probably have to go there to go back further, just like Ireland..

Is there a way to talk privately on this site? I'd share you my email. I have some family tree info on my desk, my sister has my bucket of other papers..

Hey Gerard, isnt that a hoot!  Your Grandfather married a Richard too!  Man this is gettin spooky!  Yes, oddly enough it was the Richard family tree that gets all funky for some reason.  I was told that it was at times hard to search the Irish past because so many were illeterate, but it's just the opposite, the Richards may have all been as that's the hard side.  That's also a hoot because i'm in Fredericton, so not far away at all!   feel free to drop me an email, mallow.173@gmail.com  Did you check into the nolan families . org website?  ya i know the spelling is different but there's apparently a story behind that too...when they came here they didnt spell their names the same way (customs or something) and the name was changed forever!  I just tried to open nolanfamilies.org and it's not opening for some reason, but in their you'll find that its possible the original name was O'Nullain or something like that.  Not surprised that an irish name starts with an O i guess.  anyhow, drop an email sometime, i'm interested in what you've got.  If that website opens up again i'll let you know, there's some good info on that too.  Take care good sir!

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