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O'Hara/Grieve

I have tried everything I can think of to find my Gt Gt Grandparents James O'Hara & Ann Grieve, sadly I don't know which County in Ireland they were from but I have an idea James may have been from Mayo, I know they had a son Michael born c1850 who moved to Lanarkshire in Scotland about as he appears on the 1871 Census, I have copies of his marriage certificate in 1877 to my Gt Grandmother Agnes McCarron ( from Derry ) & his Death Certificate in 1914 both stating Michael was born in Ireland, on the 1877 Marriage Cert it states Michael is Deceased, As I say I have seached everywhere I can think of but can't find a trace of either James or Ann in Ireland, here's hoping someone will recognise the names

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Hi Cathy

the name Grieve is really unusual so I searched Griffiths Valuation for it country wide and it only occurs in Derry or Londonderry 2, Down 3, Antrim 1 so 6 entries only and you mention Derry elsewhere so maybe there. Also checked the tithe applottments and only 1 in Leck Donegal in 1825, this is close to Londonderry or Derry. 

O'Hara however has almost 3,000 hits with a lot in Mayo, http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameS… and http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp ;

Out of interest I tried Grieve in the online phone book and got 14 hits when residential is selected including 2 in Donegal, remember this does not include Northern Ireland where they are located in Griffiths.

If you can supply marriage or birth years and religion maybe we could make some other suggestions as RC registers are online and some Church of Ireland and more coming. 

Grieve will be much easier to search than O'Hara.

Regards

Pat

St Peters LouthIrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Pat

Thank you for getting back to me, I am certain that the family were RC as Michael & Agnes were married in the Roman Catholic church in Wishaw, Lanarkshire.

I was beginning to think that Grieve was the wrong surname or spelling  but it is on both Michael's Marriage & Death Certificates, of course Ann could be short for any number of longer christian names !.

Yes the other set of Gt Gt Gt Grandparents ( Kane & Cullen ) that I'm researching did live in the Limavady area of Derry so it could well be that the O'Hara' & Grieve's were living  in the North of the country before a lot of the younger generations left for Scotland in the late 1840s

Unfortunately there are very very few elderly relatives left in the family who could tell me anything of interest but anything you can find would be wonderful as as I was adopted as a baby & only finding snippets of information in recent years I am really desperate to find as much out about my family as possible.

Many Thanks

Cathy

IrelandXO member

Cathy

as I have previously noticed when we were searching my wifes ancestry the family lived in the same townland, based on hte assumption transport was limited people did not travel far to meet each other so I chekced Grieve in Derry again and were they lived and I see that in Clondermot there were also some O'Hara's, the Grieve is William in both cases so could be the same man with two different plots and and hte same applies to the 4 O'Hara's there, two different people but this I cannot say with complete certainty.

My principal point is that maybe they were both from this area, the RC registers are online here http://registers.nli.ie/ but Clondermot does not come back as a parish but if you search Limavaddy you get two parishes but records are late starting in about 1855 and 1863. 

This is more a deduction than a fact but keep it in mind.

Good Luck

Pat

St Peters LouthIrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Cathy,
My is Noel Grieve I live in Belfast my grandfather came from Co. Derry his name was Thomas Grieve.
Thomas two uncles move to Australia in the 1800's.
I was in contact on 23& me website with a Michael De Grieve who is an Australian my 3rd cousin, he is on ancestry site to. You can find him on Facebook just message him first to see if he reply to you. His great great granddaughter lost contact with his brother. There may of been a sister if anyone could help you I think it would be him.

Noel

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