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Looking for Ancestors of George Conley born abt 1799

I recently discovered my 2nd Great Grandfather, George Conley, immigrated here to the US from Ireland.

Unfortunately, I have no idea where in Ireland he came from.

He was born abt 1799, he died in WV, USA in 1892.

From what I have found, his father's name was John, and mother's name was Nancy. Thats all I have on them.

He seems to have immigrated maybe before the potato famine ashis oldest daughters was born in the USA from what I have found abt1836. Elizabeth Jane, these are the other children of this marriage:

George Conley, Jr (maybe) abt 1841

Robert Conley abt 1843

Mary Ann Conley abt 1845

William Conley abt 1847

Hugh Conley abt 1849

and John H Conley born abt 1854

all of these children he had with Ellen or Ella McGuire Conley lists place of birth as Ireland on son Robert's death certificate.

There are no family Bibles available, unfortunately, and I have only one cousin older than me and she had no idea our 2nd Great Grandfather came from Ireland until I told her.

Since Ellen was also from Ireland, I assume they immigrated as a married couple.

The death certificate lists the mother's maiden name as Ella McGuire. Approx date of birth for her is 1815 and she died here in the USA 22 of June 1857.

I was only 5 when my Grandfather, Frank Conley, died, but I have vague memories that he was well aware of his Irish roots and was proud of that.

I have no memories of Catholicism in the Conley family, so I assume they must have been protestant.

I also do not know if Conley was Americanized from one of the Irish forms of the name.

I did DNA and came back 49% British Isles, which matched up because I knew 2nd Great Grandfather came directly from somewhere in Ireland.

Ellen was his first wife and seems to have died young. George remarried at 62 and his second wife Frances Parsons, born in USA is my 2nd Great Grandmother.

Any help in discovering his Irelandroots and ancestors would be appreciated.

Michelle Jones 1

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Hi!

By any chance are you on Ancestry.com? I am a Conley and I too have difficulty finding origin. A lot of my difficulty is due to my 4th grgf. Lawrence Conley b. 1793, banishment from Cork, Ireland in 1814. 4th and 3rd generations documents are either altered or do not exist. I would like to see if my family members share DNA. Discovered on Ancestry.com a brother name James b. 1775, was from Leap. Cork, Ireland. You will find Lawrence Byron Conley and his story on this Message Board.

Your given names Robert, William, George and Mary Ann are also found in my family. Family was in maritime and remained in New England, Ontario and Quebec but that not to say he did not have another brother in the southern states. Another discovery on Ancestry.com, although we emigrated from Cork, we are Scottish and not Irish. I have recently added my GEDMatch on various Irish and Scottish websites to track our origin. 

Sincerely, Pam 

 

 

 

 

Pam Conley

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