Conway of Killala Mayo Ireland and Crossmolina Mayo Ireland to Rode Island USA

Joe:

The subscription site Roots Ireland does have the 1835 and 1838 baptismal records for Thomas and William in Crossmolina. Unable to locate the marriage record. There are also at least eleven baptismal/birth records for children of John Conway and Margaret Cannon from 1868-1885. No marriage record because the Killala marriage records start in 1873 and I did not locate a civil marriage record.

Have you considered DNA testing?

Roger McDonnell

Thanks for your reply Roger

I have baptisms records for Thomas and William……. I was wondering if there was any other brothers or sisters to them??

I have the marriage record for John and Margaret in 1867 (attached)…. And births of their children before they left Ireland for life in Rhode Island USA

Family tales say John set up some sort of travel or transport business in the states, can’t find any record of that??

And can’t find any death for John or his wife Margaret, but have found some deaths and marriages of their children.

As John’s dad was a James Conway, as is recorded on his marriage record, and Thomas and William’s dad was a Martin Conway, it’s the connection between both fathers I'm seeking. 

As on one of the ship manifests for two of my grandmother's cousins going to the states, arriving in New York (Elizabet and Christina Cox) 1920, their sponsor is an Uncle John Conway, Manville, R.I.

Thomas Conway (wife Ellen Doyle), my Gt Gt grandfather was in the British army, some of his  children were born in Cape of Goodhope, South Africa and Jersey his last child James was born in Ireland. This James would be my Great grandfather.

Thomas Conway and family after he finished in the army settled in Dublin, they are recorded on the 1901 Irish census.