Irish immigrants to Wales, 1800s

[mona lisa]

Just like to suggest that re: Irish ancestors to Wales or anywhere else:to locate family information = look in Scotland, as the Irish and Scots travelled to and fro  and    if you can even find 1 ancestor from Ireland there will shed an avalanche of information especially after 1855, altho I found the County/City of my Irish ancestor in the 1851 Glasgow Census. The USA also has great amounts of accessible info. Their most recent Census 1930 and a partial 1940. Canada's 1911 for all Provinces with the additional 1916  Census of the Prairie Provinces of Alberta /Saskatchewan. Quebec and Ontario and the Maritimes a lot of accessible data. With one of my brickwall kin I really must think outside the box . Its like a dripping faucet a little bit at a time. Good Luck all.

[carol99]

can anyone tell me if there are any records of the irish who emmigrated to Merthyr Tydfil. I am helping a friend research her family and it is proving to be very difficult. we are going to join the Glamorgan family history society, and on sending a email to the secretary she mentioned there had been some research done on the irish in merthyr Tydfil, but looking on the site I can't find anything relating to this research. My friends family are MURPHY/REGAN/GRAHAM/ LEWIS/JAMES , and there are thousands of them. would be most grateful for any information  regards carol99

[Arranroots]

Hi Carol99 - welcome to Rootschat 

I hope you get some ideas on this thread but if not, it might be a good idea to start a new thread on the Glamorgan Requests board. If you are researching backwards, it is helpful to post details of the earliest ancestors your friend knows about. Mention anything that helps identify them (Irish names, like Welsh, tend to be quite common!) Also tell us what resources you have access to and which you have already examined to save duplication of effort.

Good luck!

Kind regards, Arranroots 

[ruchca]

Hello  I also have been looking at my husbands ancestors who came from Ireland to Cardiff, with no luck, as on the census it just says Ireland.Their name was Mcdonnel/McDonnell. My husbands great grandfather was the one who came over in about 1850s.  Read somewhere that the Marquis of Bute would ship young men over to work on building Cardiff Docks. He also supplied them with housing. There was an area in Cardiff called Newtown which he owned it was  about 8 streets, and the houses were practicaly full of Irish lodgers. Apparantly today this area is the Mermaid Quay. I've forgotton the website ,but I just put in Cardiff Docks and found a bit of info.  It's a pity we can't go any further back on the Irish line..
Cheers Christine

[marysma]

Hi Christine,

                     have  you tried tracing  the family in the census's.


Marysma

[ruchca]

Hi Marysma,  From the censuses I know my James Mcdonnell was born in Ireland around 1831. First time I,ve got him is on the 1851 census and I've got him and his family up to the present day. I think he came over from Ireland in the late 1840's. But what part is anyones guess.

Cheers  Christine

[GrandMammy]

I have two families of Irish ancestors who travelled to Wales and both ended up in Newport, Monmouthshire.  I have been fortunate enough to build quite a family tree for both sides.

On Grandfather's maternal side: Fitzgerald = came from Cork (going back to 1829) and left between 1865-1868, first appearing on Welsh Census in 1871.

On Grandfather's paternal side: Murray as yet unknown location (in Ireland) of departure, as yet unknown date of departure, first appearing on Welsh Census in 1851, but GG-Grandfather born in Newport in 1845/ 1849.

I have read much of what they must have endured through their lives in Ireland; and I believe that is what helped them to survive the terrible journeys that they had to make to find better lives.  I am in admiration of their hardiness and am thankful that they undertook this.  Their drive is what has contributed to the good life of myself and their other descendents, and I'm proud of them for that.

[Pejic]

Sorry to tag onto your thread like this, but I try it on whenever I find one where there is an Irish interest - I have posted my own (without any marked success).

I have an ancestor Ledgingham Murphy who had a daughter Sophia 1778 in Chepstow. I have been unable (for about 50 years) to find anything more than this about Ledgingham.

The closest I have got is an IGI entry for 1766 St James Bristol, Walter Murphy married Mary Ledgingham.

Anyone anything to add . . . please.

peter

[Pejic]

Cracked it.

There was a Sophia born to a Walter Murphy and Mary in Chepstow (one of 8 of their children)

I knew Sophia was 1 of 8 but not who they were.

And Walter Murphy married Mary Ledgingham 2 years before the birth of their first child in chepstow.

Good enough for me (especially after 50 years searching).

I'm celebrating!!!!