O'Hara

Hi Greg

Irish records back at this point are almost non existant, Irish church registers are now online but not searchable unless you have dates and rarely available before 1800 or later. Belturbet only starts in the 1840s http://registers.nli.ie/ 

A small piece of the 1821 census for Cavan and I think some of Belturbet area is included, see http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/ believe it or not there are 166 individual O'Haras listed.

There are some OHaras here in the tithes register in Cavan including Templeport http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp 

There are two OHaras listed on the Flax growers list in Antrim, this was just a list of farmers growing flax.

These County Down sites may assist http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/ and http://countydown.x10.mx/ and in the general Belturbet area http://www.bawnboy.com/local-genealogy/index.html

Not sure it quite takes in your area. The local paper is the Anglo Celt and some (very little) of its content is onlinehttp://www.irelandoldnews.com/

You might consider writing to the paper which is still in existance but the online phonebook shows no O'Haras in Cavan. 

I assumed from the names they were RC religion but if not get back to me and I will give you a link tot the Church of Ireland site which is better for records and slowly putting them online.

Sorry for the delay in responding.

Regards

Pat

Hi Greg.  We could be related!  My O'Hara family are from Ballyclug but it is a common name there

Dear Pat, Thank you for your response which has some wonderful suggestions. I have retyped the initial post because I am not sure Henry O'Hara's father Charles or his mother Margaret Murphy came from other counties. All I know is Henry was born in Belturbet in 1825 to Charles O'Hara and Margaret [Murphy] O'Hara. There certainly seems to be a large concentration of O'Haras in Cavan around this time. 

Best Regards Greg Cliffe. 

 

Hi Greg, 

My great great great grandmother was Catherine O'Hara (1821) from Ireland. She married a Bernard McCabe (b 1821ish C Cavan)  in 1839 and emigrated with him to Newcastle upon Tyne. It looks like Catherine stayed behind in Ireland to have her baby (James) in Newcastle, Bernard moved over to the North East and stayed with a Henry O'Hara. On Bernard's birth cert there are O'Hara godparents. I am a descendent of their daughter Catherine McCabe born in Byker Newcastle. 

I am on ancestry and have some matches on there that I can't quite place but have roots in Ireland. The O'Hara's could be the link. 

Laura 

Laura, Thom McCabe in Canada. I am interested in your Bernard and Catherine O'Hara. My McCabes come from Cavan, Felix McCabe b. ca 1778 m. Margaret Smyth b. ca 1780. Felix, Margaret and their young family immigrated to Canada around 1828. I am working with a lady in England who has a Bernard McCabe and Catherine O'Hara as her ancestors. We are DNA related and I am trying to determine if the McCabe line is how. From her ancestry tree, she has a Catherine b. ca 1853 Drumlane and d. 1 Apr 1928 in Gateshead, Durham, England. From your post, it doesn't seem to be the same Catherine yet her parents are supposedly Bernard b. ca 1816 and Catherine O'Hara b. ca 1821. Was there another Bernard McCabe and Catherine O'Hara born in and around that same time to your knowledge? Thanks in advance for anything you can offer. Thom in Canada