RYAN BROTHERS PATRICK & MICHAEL EMIGRATE TO CANADA 1823

Hi,

Thank you very much for your message.

I hope that someone who is researching the same family makes a  connection with you and helps you to further your research.

One of the main obstacles that people encounter when doing their Irish family history is finding a place of origin. As most Irish record sources are based on specific locations, usually a parish it can be difficult to go much further without knowing place of origin.

The fact that their surname was Ryan makes a bit more difficult as this is a very common surname in Ireland:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?Surname=ryan&fuseaction=Go.

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http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ have begun a project to upload Irish church records to their site free of charge. However so far only Counties Dublin, Kerry, Carlow and parts of Cork have been covered.

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The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://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

Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/index.htm

Genealogy links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/index.html

Irish Genealogy Tool-kit: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/

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Hi Terry,

There is a possible connection to my gggrandfather Michael Ryan. Per his land grant paper he arrived in Cape Breton in 1820 aged 26 single . Would have been born c1795.  He was RC.  A Patrick Ryan , age25 single man applied for a land grant in 1824 and a Patrick Ryan aged 35  native of Ireland applied for a land grant in 1826, married Mary with four children. Michael received a grant in Cape Dauphin on the Brasd'or. He married Mary Ann Carey, daughter of William Carey and Elizabeth Ball c 1825-30.

I have information on their children etc.  Margie Scott

Hi Margie, your info sound so close. Micheal went to Newfoundland as per family lore. Do you know where in Ireland your Patrick and Micheal came from?

Hi Terry,  Family lore, (my late father) stated that Michael came from New Ross, Wexford.  Margie