I am searching for information on my GG Grandfather, Joseph J. Walsh. He was born in Ireland Approximately 1828. United States census records list his occupation sometimes as Stone Cutter and other times as a Flagger/Paver. City Directories list him alternately in the same way. The 1900 US census record states he emigrated in 1850. He was a United States Civil War Navy veteran. In his Civil War pension file his widow states that he was from Maynooth, County Dublin. His widow was also born in Ireland and I am confused why she states that Maynooth is County Dublin and not County Kildare. I will be posting this same message on the Dublin Booterstown Parish message board as well. She was his third wife and they met while in the US. He died in Passaic, New Jersey on March 29, 1902. His death certificate lists his age as 73. The death certificate states that he was born in Ireland as was his mother and father. It also states his father’s name was John and his mother’s was Ann. I have been unable to find any information closely matching this information for Maynooth. I was able to find a baptism record on www.rootsireland.ie for a Joseph Walsh born 24 March, 1828. The parents are listed as John Walsh and Catherine Maddock and the sponsors are Laurence O’Neal and Ann Maddock. The Parish is listed as Booterstown Blackrock & Dundrl. Maybe someone in the States confused his godmother and mother’s names. Thank you in advance for any help you can give.
Sunday 10th Mar 2013, 02:09PM
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Try having a look on these links that i have posted up you mite have better luck than me. I sadly could not find any information about them.
Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093 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 National Archives UK? genealogy search:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm The US National Archives:http://www.archives.gov/ 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