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Senier family Galway

 

Looking at the census returns I find that:

Senier family born on Lancashire in England in circa 1839.  He was a weaver and by 1880 he is married in Co Tipperary with several children and headed for Galway City. 

Just raises questions as to why he came to Ireland then.  Could he have been in the British Army in Ireland or on some such service? Or did he have family there? Need his marriage  certificate to answer that one.

  In the 1901 census a  brother is living with his maternal grandmother and uncle also in Galway city. She is Bridget Halloran.   They speak both Irish and English but would seem to be speaking English to the grandson.  By 1911 the two senior Senier brothers and their mother and families have moved  to Clifton.

  Richard' wife also Bridget also  speaks Irish and Richard appears to learn it on way between Tipperary, Galway City and Clifton. In 1911 they are both listed  as speaking Irish and English and Richard is now  a woollen manufacturer, his brother is still a weaver just married and living with his mother wife and sister

. Richard has a weaver lodging with him from another part of the  country suggesting he is employing people. So likely  to some extent it was an Irish speaking household.

Any information would be gratefully at clontuskert@irelandxo.com

Attn. Teresa

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Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093 The National Archives of Irelandhttp://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/ The National Library of Irelandhttp://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx The National Archives UK ? genealogy search:http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/ The Public Records Office of Northern Irelandhttp://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm The US National Archives:http://www.archives.gov/ The National Archives Scotland- family history:http://www.nas.gov.uk/familyHistory/ The Library & Archives of Canada- http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html Irish Newspaper Archives:http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/   The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml       Good luck.

 

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