Irish in Co Durham

[aghadowey]

Unfortunately not all records pre-registration are online or even still survive so you need to have an idea of where they lived in Ireland to see what records might exist.

Have a look at Introduction to Irish Records and My Ancestor came from Ireland - where do I start?.

[Gortinanima]

I have traced two families from Maghera parish to Felling, Gateshead & wondered if any of the children appear in the marriage register for St Patrick's RC, Felling?

   1     Hugh Cassidy   
..      +Rose Tohill   
........   2     Margaret Cassidy 1856 - Ireland
........   2     Patrick Cassidy   1860 - Ireland
........   2     Daniel Cassidy   1863 - Ireland
........   2     James Cassidy   1868 - Felling
........   2     Mary Ann Cassidy 1871 - Felling
........   2     Catherine Cassidy 1877 - Felling

         1      John Convery
                  + Isabella Tohill
                   2 Patrick Convery 1850 - Heworth

[pick]

I was checking on Ancestry just in case my ancestor John Convery was linked to yours in any way and came across a tree with the children of John and Isabella including Patrick 1850. Do you have their names or would you like me to list them?

[Gortinanima]

If you don't mind could you list them as I might be missing a few & will be interesting to see if they match.

Any help gratefully received

[pick]

I have, Michael 1828 - 1918, Mary 1829, Dan 1834, Peggy 1837, John 1846, Patrick 1850 and Henry 1852.
My 3 x great grandfather was John Convery 1807 Maghera Derry. He married Mary McCollough also from Maghera.
I don't know if there's any connection with your John though.
Good Luck!

[Gortinanima]

Thanks

Didn't have Michael's date of death nor Henry Convery 1852.

Lots of Converys from Lavey area of  Co Derry

http://www.lmi.utvinternet.com/glistc.htm

[Gr8scot227]

Hi,

Could you please check for me if you have a John Newlands/Newland/Knowling or Nolan marrying a Mary? Their first child was born in Jarrow, Durham around 1859. They were both from Ireland. He was born around 1827 and she was born around 1839. The 1861 census for South Shields lists them.  I gave you a few surnames as they appear differently in different censuses.

Thank you!

[CathP49]

I am new to this site and I'm not sure exactly how it works. I am very interested in finding who posted info about my family. There is a post on here (and I really don't know how to properly cite it). It is from - Posted by: MK201
« on: Saturday 11 February 12 17:09 GMT (UK) 
It has info about MY grandfather, James Henry Dowdle, yet I know this person is not my cousin. Presumably they are related to me although I don't know how - otherwise why are they asking about MY family. I am a bit concerned about this although I suppose anyone can search for anyone else's family tree - why would you! Some of the info in the answer is incorrect. I have researched this family (my family) extensively and have more info. The names in question are Dowdle (Hartlepool), Keechen, McDonnell. The McDonells were not from Ulster and the Dowdles were not from Drogheda or Dublin (just because they had ports??? - many other places had ports!). I would like to share info with this person but don't know how this would be possible. One place they could go is the Lost Cousins website (if they are related to me). That is a UK website which uses census records to match people. I am registered on there. You do not need to know my name in order for a match. Maybe someone can tell me some other way of doing this.
I don't think you can make statements about which counties in Ireland people came to Co. Durham from. The early census records do not show which counties in Ireland people came from. In 1911 they did start recording which county in Ireland people came from. Very rarely the census record did show the county as I have found a couple of my Irish connections from Co. Meath and from Co. Sligo on the 1871 UK census.(These were not the families in question here.) Unless family members could give specific information as to where their family was from it is very hard to know what is their county of origin.
Cath

[Ruskie]

Welcome to rootschat Cath. I'm afraid that MK201 hasn't been active on rootschat since 2012. If they have set up their profile correctly, they should get notification of your reply to this thread and hopefully will return.

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