Lawrence Doyle

Hi Clare
Do you have a birth year for Lawrence?
Assuming he was born 1830's there are 8 possibilities - www.rootsireland.ie/ has 8 baptism records - 7 in Wicklow & 1 in Dublin years 1833-41
Col

Col,

I do not have a birth date for Lawrence Doyle.

He was married in 1852 in Cincinnati Ohio in St Peter-in-Chains (the Irish Catholic Church in Cincinnati)

to Mary (Maria) Catherine Ohara

He died sometime in 1853 in the Cincinnati area.

Mary Catherine gave her birthplace as Ireland and assume that is where Lawrence Doyle was born.

Thanks for any information,

Clara

Hi Clara
I wondered if this record from ancestry is relevant?
NAME: Edward Doyle
BIRTH PLACE: Ireland
MARRIAGE DATE: 17 Nov 1868
MARRIAGE PLACE: Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
FATHER: Patrick
MOTHER: Bridget Cleary
SPOUSE: Mary O'Hara
SPOUSE BIRTH PLACE: Ireland
SPOUSE FATHER: Jeremiah
SPOUSE MOTHER: Julia Gullidge
Col

Col,

The Lawrence Doyle I am seeking information about lived in Cincinnati in the early 1850s.

Clara

Re:  Lawrence Doyle - Cincinnati

Hi Clara, 

I hope you receive this message.  I found your post searching Google for Doyles of Cincinnati info.  My Patrick Doyle 1812-1892 was born in Wicklow (cemetery record) and died in Cincinnati.  He was a tailor.  There were a lot of Wicklow/Wexford immigrant Doyles in Cincinnati.  Our DNA matches are also leaning toward the Wicklow/Wexford county line area.  My four Doyle immigrant guys are Patrick, John, James, and Garret.  I stumble over the name Lawrence Doyle researching both here in Cincinnati and in Wicklow, and am curious if you've had your DNA run?  Also as info, findmypast.com is to put up the Archdiocese of Cincinnati parish records within the next several months.  That will help me enormously, and I suspect, you as well.    

Best regards,

Lyn Streight 

Cincinnati

Hi Clara,

On seeing your message and your thoughts that Lawrence may have been born in County Cork, I decided to carry out a check of all Doyle baptisms and marriage in County Cork from 1800 to 1850. We can only check Church records for this period as Civil Records did not begin in Ireland until 1864 with just a few exceptions.

My first check was for all of the Doyle family name in Cork County without including first names and  including both  sexes. This brought up just over 592 Baptisms and 102 marriages.

The name Lawrence was used quite rarely in Ireland and as often as not was spelled Laurence and appears in many records as just Lauce, especially in baptismal registers where I have seen it many times over the past years.

Consequently, I used the Laurence spelling as a filter and again checked all of Cork County.  This filter dramatically reduced the number of Baptisms to Just one Doyle marriage and six baptisms where the surname Doyle was mentioned. What was even more significant was that all the entries were in the Parish of Kilmurray in County Cork. Again, quite significantly, the name Lauce appears in every one of the entries but particularly significant is the baptism of a Lauce on 30 March1816. This is the only Laurence/Lawrence,/Lauce Doyle baptised in Cork & Ross Diocese from 1800 - 1850 and which would make him about 30 years old in the mid 1840s when the famine was at its height and many thousands left Ireland to escape it and make a better life for themselves in the USA, Australia and many other lands. The fact that the Doyle family records all appear in Kilmurry is highly indicative that all were related to each other. Lauce's father was named as Con Doyle and his mother was Mary Cross. There was a marriage of a Lauce Doyle and Norry Brien in the same Parish in 1814 and the name of Lauce Doyle appeared as a sponsor or a witness in all other documents.

If you are interested in this information or feel that its relevant to your family, you can contact me on my personal email address, frankfahy@eircom.net and I will send you the documents or links to them. I have tried and failed for some reason to attach them to this message board reply but you can reply to me on this board and I will help in any way I can.

Hope this is of help to you,

Frank Fahy