Searching for McTiernan relatives living in Co. Leitrim

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. 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/  Irish Newspaper Archives:http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/The US National Archives:

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I am researching my grandma's family along with others. We have got back to Bartholmew McTiernan living in Greaghnafarna, Killanummery, Co Leitrim b. about 1800. He had a son John birth date unknown but unlikely to be as early as 1817. There could be a connection but by 1901 there are several McT(i)ernan households in this townland. My family tree should be easy to find on Ancestry.com

I will certainly keep an eye out for any connections

Hello! Thank you for your comment, this is a very interesting connection. For further information contact: michael@mctiernan.com Michael has done extensive research on our lineage and I am sure you will discover our connection here! Please keep me posted - I believe we are in fact related!

What us your grandmother's name and where does your family now reside? Be sure to contact Michael McTiernan as indicated in previous message! You will be pleasantly informed upon discovering all of the information available.

My grandmother was Maria McTiernan born 1883 in Greaghnafarna to Patrick McTiernan 1840 - 1919 and Anne Gallagher 1842-1918 Patrick was a son of Bartholomew 1800-? and Mary Kelly.

Maria married John Jim Daly of Glenstraduff, Sligo. They are buried in Arigna Graveyard.

I have been in touch with Michael and through him to distant cousins in USA

Hello!
I've been trying to find where my Tierneys came from, and found several years ago that my nearest paternal Y-DNA matches from one of the McTiernan lines listed on mctiernan.com.

Some of the more distant of those appear to come from this area of Leitrim and nearby Roscommon.
I've done automsomal testing as well at all the major testing sites - I was wondering if any of your family has take those tests?

I'm hoping one of these days I'll find some DNA matches that really lead me to this location and possible help me focus my search for records related to my great-grandfather Michael Tierney and family.

Best Regards,
John Tierney
My genealogy blog: http://currach.johnjtierney.com

Hi John

Make sure you have  a look through the message board to see who else is researching the family name

Best wishes

Clare Doyle

Genealogy Support 

Thanks Clare,

I will keep an eye out.

I like to leave messages on the various related boards, hoping one of the breadcrumbs will lead me home one day. ;)

Door is always open and the kettle always on!

Clare

Genealogy Support 

Hi there my surname is mctiernan I have found a lot of  past relatives by tracing birth, census, wedding and Catholic  parish records. A lot seem to have left Ireland gone to Scotland then down in to county Durham, down to Bradford and Wakefield some that went to Bradford and Wakefield then went to Middlesbrough. Some also left England after and went into pennsylvania area of America. My line looks like we're living in Scotland  then Bradford area to Middlesbrough where I am.

I'm descended from thady mctiernan which I think was from curry Killarga parish.