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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Offaly (Kings) => Topic started by: sanz on Thursday 02 April 09 22:17 BST (UK)
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Searching for Patrick EGAN 1790 and wife Bridget KELLY/KEILY 1796. These people came to AUSTRALIA with 3 or 4 young children , to start new life in 1840s . They settled in SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Their eldest a daughter BRIDGET married my family person THOMAS PAIN/PAYNE from ENGLAND in 1850 in Adelaide SA. Any persons out their related ? Thanks SANDRA PAIN
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dont know if you know a location for the Egan's - but here are a few Kings County/Offaly entries from Pigots Commercial Directory of 1824. (I am assuming that the mention of the 1940s is a typo...)
Parsonstown/Birr
John Egan , Main-street - Grocer
John Egan , Main-street - Linen & Woolen Draper
Philipstown/Daingean
Bartholomew Egan - Publican
and from Slaters 1846
Birr
Dennis Egan, Market square - Boot & Show Maker
Patrick Egan, Grave yard - Culter & Gunsmith
John Egan & Co. Main st - Grocer
Thomas Egan , Main st - Publican
John Egan & Co. Main st - Seedsman
Clara
Patrick Egan - timber merchant and tallow chandler
Tullamore
Constantia Egan, Barrack st - Bookseller (Stationer & Printer)
David Burgess Egan, Barrack st - Bookseller (Stationer & Printer)
Egan Michael, William st, Tullamore - Grocer
Shane
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Thankyou for your help, im not sure on the names you gave. Im looking for a marriage i suppose of Patrick and Bridget, then names of children as i only have eldest Bridget Jnr. Im told they had 3 or 4 children and they were youngens when came out on boat, Bridget was abt 19yrs when she married to my family person in Adelaide SA. Also her father was in his 40s when he was in australia at her wedding?
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The dates are quite a bit before civil registration and there's no online access to parish registers for Offaly at the moment but hopefully they will made available on the IFHF system at some point.
Sometimes If you know a trade or business it's possible to locate a probable match using the trade directories.
Shane
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Hi Shane, the thing is I do not know of their trades, hard enough trying to find how they got to Australia , and reason why they went to the dead of the outback to make a life. Only first settlers discovering the areas in that part of the country around 1840s/50s. Actually squatters on the land, sheep and cattle. They needed medals just to do that, and to drag the wifes and children along too . BEATS ME......SANDRA
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maybe they were farmers who left just before or during the famine ...
the Egan surname does seem to occur around those Offaly towns I mentioned. The top counties where the surname appears are :
1. Offaly 277
2. Tipperary 248
3. Roscommon 220
4. Galway 219
5. Mayo 144
Your Egan's had presumably left Ireland by the time of Griffiths Valuation - but you can search for people on Griffiths valuation :
http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_start.php
This was carried out as a land valuation for taxation purposes and shows heads of houseold. Most of this was carried out between 1851 and 1854 for Kings Co./Offaly
A search for Egan in the county gives over 500 results
Shane
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Hi Shane, I Looked through the Griffths Valuation, if i only knew an address would have been good. I have been told to search shipping in particular IRELAnd to AMERICA or AMERICA to AUSTRALIA FOR EGANS sounds like hard work for this, I never gave it a thought that they may have immigrated to USA first, then to AUSTRALIA. Was that common in IRELAND ? Shane just found out from wedding cert spelt their names EAGAN????
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A good link I found was in shipping arrivals for South Australia eg: the Cheapside 1849 (refer State Library of SA)