Do you need help in Athy, Co Kildare

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi again Harry, you seem to have a good knowledge of the records available to you there so no need to point you towards the ships and passenger records for the Port of Baltimore 1820-1872 held at the Washington Archives or searchable on Ancestry .com as I'm sure you would have thought to search all of his name variations there, I dont know however why, even if you have only his death notice from a newspaper, that you cant get a copy of his death cert which will give you his approx age as you know where he died and when ?
regards Damsel

[HarryC]

Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, may not have been a howling wilderness in the 1840s, but it had been one within living memory. The earliest records are a bit sketchy. 

[gig]

  hi celtic damsel
 thank you very much for the infomation  yes great website
i will look into sending a search form thank you
i will let you know how i get on with that
stanaway is a road then that fits ive got a photo of mygrandad ,on the back it says in faded pencil 65 stanaway
would you mind taking a photo of it or the street ,the next time you visit dad is kimmage a big place
i hope you can make a connection with the kavanaghs in liverpool ,do you hill family have links with derbyshire or nottinghamshire
best wishes gigg

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi Again Gig, no problem on that photo of 65 Stanaway Rd, I will get it for you when I am in Dublin next week, would be interesting to know the name of the family who live there now ? must take a note of the surnames from here and maybe ask when I'm there.
 A lot of my own family are buried at the same Cemetry including my mam who passed away this last June so I am there quite often so if you do find you have people there and they give you a map with the plot numbers let me know and I will get some Gravestone photos for you too.

My Hills I am looking at are on my husbands Gibbs side, I am only really starting on them but have gotten as far back as a marraige of his greatgrandparents who were  James John Hill (born in Ireland) and Mary Rosina Goldfinch (born in Dover in kent) they were married in Dover in 1869 and moved at some point to Reading in Berkshire where his last 4 children were born, he is dead by the 1891 census so he died possibly in reading between 1881 and 91 , I would love to find where he was from in Ireland as then I could search for him here but I'm not sure where to go from there yet, regards damsel

[gig]

hi celtic damsel thank you for the reply ,im sorry to hear about your mum
thank you in advance for the photos    it will be great to see were they lived  if i can find were any of they are buried ill defenatly let you know
i asked about your hill family as i have a line in the notts area
ive had a look at yours .james john hill  married mary rosina goldfinch dec q 1869 dover 2a 1369
james john hill died dec q 1882 wallingford (covers reading)2c 201
 ive seen them on the census but only says born ireland
seems he was a gas fitter ,ill pm you
thank you best regards gig

[mo-jo]

Hi Damsel, just to say you paint a beautiful picture of Kildare . My daughter has promised to take me out there next year, as i need to go to Naas, and Newbridge,on a trail of my hogan/tougher marraige. reading your  threads has made me look forward to it even more...mo-jo

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi there Mo-Jo, glad to know you enjoyed my posts as you can tell I love my adopted home, I am at least a fourth generation Dubliner and I love Dublin but I think I must always have been a country girl at heart as I love it here in little Athy town, the surrounding countryside is so pretty with lovely little villages everywhere, driving around the countryside here is amazing even now in the Winter time , the River Barrow has spread it banks onto the unused farmland out along the road to Carlow and looks amazing, they are obviously well used to this as all of the houses are built well out of reach of the flood and the fields are not used for planting.

You will enjoy your trip I'm sure and should'nt have too much problem finding your "Toughers" at least as that name is still very prevalent in the Naas/ Newbridge area , in fact there's and area in Naas called "Tougher", and a very rich "Tougher" somewhere there too as he owns a chain of Petrol Stations and with the price of petrol here he probably lives in the Bahamas giggles  here's the Kildare website for you to have a look at its gives a little information on all of the towns and Villages in the county. http://www.kildare.ie/.
If I can help in any way with your search let me know and again thanks for the feedback, kind regards Damsel

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi Gig, sorry for the long delay but I finally got those piccys for you of 65 Stannaway Rd in Dublin yesterday thanks to my sister carrying her camera everywhere with her, giggles, PM me your email and I will pass them on to you ,

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi Jud, just wondering if you managed to get across to Ireland yet and how you got on if you did? did you get any more information, I never heard back from that caretaker about the records for Tankardstown cemetry I must give him a ring again and see if he came up with them if you hav'nt gotten anymore info let me know anyhows.