Greetings!
I am searching for my grandfather who emigrated from Salahoona, Galway. He was born abt 11 Aug 1883 and emigrated to America abt 1910 (I think he went through Philadelphia with his brother, Martin Flaherty. He apparently still has family that held onto the family farm in that area. If anyone has any information, I would so grateful.
HI sir i have not found anything on your case however i have a list of links that mite be usefull with your seach good luck sir.
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/index.htm
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/ Aslo try this Ellis Island: http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp Castlegarden: http://www.castlegarden.org/ US National Archives/Immigration info: http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/ The Boston Pilot; From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a?Missing Friends? column with advertisements from people looking for ?lost? friends and relativeswho had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 recordsis available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad thatappeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/
You might try searching the 1901 census for the family. You could try looking for the two boys and consider that they may have named their first born sons after their father and first born daughter after their mother. There are two sites to look at for Galway. Sometimes one works better than another.
http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/1901census/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
I did look for Salahoona on google maps and it looks like it's by Bahoona West in the civil parish of Killannin. In that area there seem to be a lot of Faherty's . I tried a search on that name and did come up with this family with a Michael and a Martin.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Killannin/Bohoo…
In 1911 Michael is gone however Martin is still there.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Killannin/Bohoo…
Cathy