Henry DONNELLY, Antrim abt. 1818

[stefburgas]

I'm looking for information on Henry Donnelly who married Helen Kerr they had 6 children Thomas 1835, James 1839, Mary 1841, Helen 1841, Catherine 1843 and Hugh 1847.  Henry seems to have emigrated to Scotland late 1840's early 1850's as he appears on the 1861 census as a flesher at Dovecothall Neilston but I can't seem to find any information on him prior to Neilston.

Any help would be smashing as my tree seems to have came to a complete stop!

[aghadowey]

Welcome to Rootschat. Perhaps you have a bit more information than what's posted? For example, do you know that Henry was from County Antrim for sure, is that a family tradition or are you just guessing it might be Antrim?

Are any of the children born in Scotland? If so their birth certificate might list date and place of parents' marriage for a starting point in Ireland.

To find family details in Ireland you will really need to know their religion as well as where they lived (parish if not actual townland) and for a date well before civil registration of births, marriages and deaths even that information might not be enough to track down information on the family in Ireland.

[stefburgas]

Thanks, but unfortunately scotlandspeople don't seem to have any details for these births as most birth pre 1855 were registered with the parish.  I'll keep looking the problem is that with the name Donnelly its hard to find anything in scotland as all ties come back to ireland, the main reason for saying antrim area is that most of my family seem to have come from that area.

[Dunli]

Hello there,

I know it's been a while since this post was made and I hope that Stefburgas is still watching the site.

Henry Donnelly and Helen Kerr were my G-G-Grandfather and G-G- Grandmother.

I have sent you a PM Stefburgas.

Regards,

Dunli