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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Tipperary => Topic started by: jeannie1000cc on Sunday 10 July 11 02:20 BST (UK)
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Looking for information on the parents of my 4th g.grandfather, Patrick Peters: b.Ireland c.1796, died 1854 South Branch NS Canada. The following details are exerpted from a copy of a statement made by Patrick's daughter-in-law (my 3rd g.grandmother), Jane (Robertson) Peters on the 10th of June 1913 at 77 years of age:
"Patrick Peters had nine brothers (John, Charles, Tom, James...) and one sister (Margaret, married a man by the name of Butler). Patrick and his brother Charles came to Nova Scotia not far from 1816, and with them a friend by the name of Donahue. My mother-in-law used to say that the Peterses and the Donahues were friends in the old country and in this...intermarried. Patrick Peters married Christy MacLeod in Halifax and settled in South Branch, Stewiacke where they lived until after the death of Patrick Peters in 1854....Charles Peters and his friend Donahue went to Boston where Charles Peters had his own vessel of which he was Captain. Tom Peters, son of John Peters and brother of Charles and Patrick Peters who came to Nova Scotia, remained in Dublin, Ireland. About the time I was married (Feb. 17, 1857) a letter came from Tom Peters of Dublin saying that his brother Charles was reported lost at sea....after a time they (Tom Peters) went to Boston, and as they never wrote back to Nova Scotia, the family of Patrick Peters lost all trace of them also."
"Note - Patrick's father's name was John, his mother's name was Mary. They came from Waterford, Tipperary. Patrick used to call himself the youngest of ten sons."
Any info or point in the right direction would be very much appreciated.
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Looking for information on the parents of my 4th g.grandfather, Patrick Peters: b.Ireland c.1796, died 1854 South Branch NS Canada.
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"Note - Patrick's father's name was John, his mother's name was Mary. They came from Waterford, Tipperary. Patrick used to call himself the youngest of ten sons."
Any info or point in the right direction would be very much appreciated.
The dates you mentioned for Patrick's birth is quite early for parish records so you would need a fairly specific location, ideally a townland or parish, so you could check what records might be available for the area your Peters family lived.
p.s. Waterford and Tipperary are separate counties, but are adjacent.
see :
Introduction to Irish Records (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,442233.0.html)
My Ancestor came from Ireland - where do I start? (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,498742.0.html)
Shane
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Greetings from Tipperary the parish of Bansha/ Kilmoyler and Cahir have a number of Peters
families my email is (*) if I can be of help
Michael Peters
Cahir
Co. Tipperary
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