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Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Unfortunately, Irish church records do not go back to the late 1600s/early 1700s. So we have no way of finding a possible baptismal record for John. Civil registration did not start until 1864. 

In the mid-19th century, Toole or O'Toole was mainly found in two general areas: Co.Mayo/Galway in the West of Ireland or Co. Dublin/Co.Wicklow/Co. Kildare in the East of Ireland.

Roger McDonnell

If you think your family may have been Quaker, there are Irish Quaker birth, death & marriage records on Findmypast. They go back to the early 1700s I know. I am less sure whether there are any for the 1600s but you might want to check.  Their records include migration records (which is rare for the late 1600s/early 1700s).  When someone moved to  anew area they would obtain a letter of introduction to the Meeting House in the new area, from their own Meeting House, and the issue of such letters was recorded in the minutes of the Men’s meetings.

Most Irish Quakers are descended from English Quakers who moved to Ireland in the 1600s for business reasons. (Their first recorded meeting in Ireland was in 1654).  They were involved in milling, textiles import/export trade, food and tobacco production, brewing and in later years iron manufacture and railways.  They mostly settled on the east side of Ireland, as that was where most trade was conducted. If your family had arrived in Pennsylvania by 1710, they may only have lived in Ireland for a couple of generations, if that. You may struggle to find any record of them in Ireland.