Anyone with Irish roots any time frame

[shan42]

I have a Margaret Mee Cambridge, father Alexander Cambridge - I think it's more likely they're both McCambridge though. Seems there was a few McCambridges in the Antrim area in the early/mid 1800s when they were around, though all I have is an 'Ireland' for her on the census/marriage cert.
I can find a couple of tenuous links but nothing to follow up yet, and also the McCambridge name is originally Scottish, which just confuses me even more, lol!

[muppetprincess]

I have a Margaret Ford. She came to South Australia  in 1849, on the "Elgin", a ship carrying Irish orphans out to a new life as domestic servants in the colony. All the girls' names are recorded on a web-site about the Elgin, but only the girls from Clonmel (35 of them) are identified. The rest are from different places, Fermoy (30), Killarney (35), Lismore (25), and Skibbereen (25). of course, margaret isn't from Clonmel!!
Given this was at the time of the potato famine, I don't feel I've much chance of breaking through this brick wall. When she married, she was under age, as was her husband, and they therefore didn't have their father's names recorded.  I've not sent for her death certificate, that is for the future.

[DonL]

I am the Grand-daughter of a Robert Miskelly. He was born and raised in Newtownards, Co Down in 1927, but moved to London in the late 1940's I saw your posting and you seem to want info on the Miskelly's. If there's anyway i can help, let me know.

Hello Kelly Miskelly -  I have just read your note to Trish. I too have a Miskelly in my family. She is Susannah Miskelly who emigrated to New Zealand with her sister Margaret in 1869. Margaret was two years older than Susannah. Susannah had stated on her marriage certificate that her father was Owen Miskelly and her mother Rose McGreevy (or McGrevy) Susannah was born in Belfast about 1853. She married Thomas Viner CRUNDWELL in Nz in 1872. Margaret married William Claxton and had quite a few children her in NZ.
Susannah's husband died by accident in 1878. Susannnah later remarried and had other chuildren including my grandmother.
Any help in tracing her parerents and ancestors would be helphful.

DonL

[Blondie1]

My brick wall has wall  as  trully fallen down I thought my g grandfather George Watts was born in Ireland same as my g grandmother Ellen Coleman.    I decided to look at his Crimea War records at  Kew and found he was actually born in Oxford.     So it pays never to give up I had been looking for his birth for 8 years and got back to 1700 in one day.

 

[marcie dean]

Not only do I have Hugh Smith married to Mary Taggart both from somewhere in Ireland, but I also have a William O'May married to a Margaret Milloy and the person whose tree I gleaned this information was adamant that they were born in Scotland; and yet William on one of the census records stated that he was originally from Ireland by writing an I (in origins).  I have no idea where to start tracing my irish roots.  Hugh and Mary must have been born in Ireland around 1810/20 as they had 10 children and had moved by 1840 to Scotland, initially to Renfrew and eventually Lanarkshire and Campbelltown

marjorie

[Beard grandchild]

My paternal family originated in Ireland, but ended up in Scotland.

I have Dolans    - Francis Dolan (1819-1977) married Mary Lee  (1825-1865) in Manorhamilton  in 1845

They were both born in Ireland but died in Scotland. Their youngest daughter was Margaret Dolan.

Then I have Blest/Blessington/Mulvanery, again born in Ireland (Leitrim) The family first appear on the 1851 Scottish census listed as McVanatchie, which we take to be a corruption of Mulvanerty. They become Blest on the 1861/1871 censuses, then Blessington on the 1881.

So many different versions of the names here, but Miles/Michael born 1812, died Haddington, Scotland 1878, married Bridget Durkin, born Leitrim 1816, died 1884, Haddington, Scotland. Their youngest child was John Blest.

Margaret Dolan, born Ireland 1861, married John Blessington, born John Blest(1855) in Haddington in 1883

Talk about needles in haystacks!

Pat.



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[alyson123]

Family names Doran and Savage.

Might I be so bold as to make a suggestion regarding this topic?? Perhaps rootschaters contributing
could head up their post with their family names (as above), making it easier for everyone to look
for a potential connection with others.

My brickwall in Ireland is with the Doran and Savage family likely to be from County Down ......... but
still looking for a marraige between a John Doran and Mary Savage anywhere in Ireland. Timeframe
circa 1840 to 1870.
Regards
Alyson

[DonL]

Good Idea Allyson123


My brickwalls are :
Margaret Ellen BYRNE - born Kingstown, Dublin 23rd March 1856
Parents said to be Patrick BYRNE and Bridget (UNKNOWN)


Susannah MISKELLY born Belfast  c 1853 - she and her sister Margaret arrived in New Zealand on the Coventry Jane in 1869. Susannah stated on her marriage certificate that her father is Owen MISKELLY and her mother as Rose McGREEVY (or McGreavY). Her sisters marriage certificate does not show her parents at all (was not compulsory then)

Any help in tracing these ancestors would be much appreciated.

DonL

Have not been able to trace either of these families

[Blue70]

I can only go so far back with my Irish people because of the availability of records. One line that should be more straight forward is my Holland people from County Cork. They were the last of my Irish ancestors to settle in Liverpool in the late 1870s. William John Holland and Jane Grogan must have married in Ireland in the 1870s but I have no marriage record for them yet. I'm hoping that later additions of County Cork RC church records will include this marriage and reveal where in Cork they came from.

C