Looking for information as to the origin of Thomas Hayes McEntee. Born in 1809 in Ireland, city/town unknown. He immigrated to USA before 1853 and ended up at St. Louis Missouri USA. There he married Mary Allen and had 4 children, Thomas Joseph, Mary, Ann, and Andrew. He passed in 1889. Any information will be welcome. Having trouble navigating Irish genealogy information sites for any information. Thank you.
You can use this site to see where the surname was common in Ireland in the mid 1800s.
https://www.johngrenham.com/findasurname.php?surname=McEntee
You really need to try and find your ancestor’s parents names, perhaps from his marriage or death certificate to be sure of locating the right McEntee in Ireland. It’s a common name and there will likely be multiple candidates. (The 1901 Irish census has 21 Thomas McEntees. The name will have been just as common in 1809). Having said that, it’s also important to know that not all parishes have records for someone born in 1809, and so it’s possible there is no record of his birth in Ireland to be found.
There’s a tree on Ancestry that records Thomas dying in St Louis MO on 20.8.1889 so it may be possible to find his death certificate from that
Lisa:
McEntee was not a real common surname in Ireland in the 19th century. You can use this site maintained by one of our volunteers https://www.swilson.info/sdist.php ; to see where the surname was found in the mid-19th century. (Make sure you show a space between Mc and Entee.) You will find that Monaghan and Meath had the most McEntees.
I did search the subscription site Roots Ireland and there were four baptismal records in the general time period around 1809. There were two records in Co. Louth 1805 and 1811 and two records in Co. Meath 1806 and 1810. I tried using Andrew and Joseph as potential names for his father and got no records from the four, however, the 1811 record did have Thomas as the father. The details are: Thomas McEntee July 22 1811 Darver RC church Co. Louth father Thomas McEntee and mother Mary Clerk
I assume his death record had no parental info and there was no obituary that you have located?
Let me know what questions you have.
Roger McDonnell