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Trying to confirm James Egan is my relative - a bricklayer from 1824 in Galway

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John Egan and his wife Anne or Annie Greeley had three children born in Ireland, (possibly Galway or Cork) 

The children were Michael born 1819, James born 1824 or 1825 and Maurice ??.  The three children immigrated to the United states where we believe they all stayed.  We know James Egan who married Mary Ellen Canty in Boston, USA in 1849 did.  He had 2 children in Boston, then moved to San Francisco and had more children and stayed in that general area until his died in Monterey, California, USA. 

I am hoping to come to Ireland in the fall and would love any information on John and Anne Egan the parents of the three boys.  They may have stayed in Ireland or have immigrated with the boys.  James Egan was a bricklayer or mason while he was in Boston, then later he was a miner, farmer , hotel and store owner in the USA. 

I have one naturalization paper for a James Egan born in Galway 1824, a bricklayer who immigrated to Boston in 1836 and am trying to confirm this is my relative -

James Egan.
 

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Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reasonwhy they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given atthe port of arrival rather than the port of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at (e.g.Liverpool, New York, etc.), this could be a good place to find more information. -And perhaps evenfind out an exact place of origin. 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/ 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

 

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