Hi there! Does anyone have information about this Thomas? He would be my ancestor, my great grandfather's grandfather. Born in Tyrone, approximately in 1805. His father would have been Michael and his mother Elizabeth. I would be one of his descendants. From now many thanks and greetings!.
Christian,
Thomas’s birth is long before the start of statutory birth registration in Ireland (1864). In general, for events before that you need to rely on church records but a problem you face with someone born c 1805 is that few parishes in Tyrone have records for that period. Most RC parishes start around the 1820s, some later. Some Church of Ireland records start earlier.
If you have no idea where in the county they lived it can be a needle in a haystack. On the positive side, Sullivan is not a common name in Tyrone. In the 1901 census there were only 9 and 6 of them were born outside the county. The 3 that were born in it lived in Cronghill, Ballycolman and Moy. You could focus your search on those locations. The household in Moy were Church of Ireland the other 2 RC.
You haven’t said where Thomas died but I assume it wasn’t Ireland, so I didn’t search for a death certificate.
Hi. Before anything else, my apologies for the great delay in this response. Thomas lived and surely died in Uruguay. Here I leave a website where your offspring appears. (This site marks the date of his birth in 1821, in other places, 1805 appears. I don't know which of these two dates is correct): http://www.genealogiairlandesa.com/genealogia/N/ONeill/Thomas3.php. I am the great-grandson of Victoriano O'Neil White (Thomas's grandson). Thank you in advance!!!.