Looking for where my grandfather, Patrick Healy, was born and the names of his parents (my great grandparents)
Patrick was born in March 1875. I haven't been able to locate where he was born. The information I have is that he emigrated from Queenstown/Cohb leaving on June 9th and arriving in New York on June 17th, 1897 on the ship Aurania. The ship's manifest lists his last residence as "Ballylander, County Kerry". However, it appears there is no Ballylander in Co. Kerry so it may be that it should read Ballyledder which is in Co. Kerry, but I have been unable to locate him there.
Upon arrival he went to live with his uncle James Healy and his wife Bridget Clohosey Healy in Bridgeport, Connecticut and stayed there for three years. Patrick apparently moved to Hoboken, New Jersey around 1900 and married Mary Ahern who had emigrated in either 1891 or 1895. She was born in Kanturk, Co. Cork. He had his first son, James in 1904 and three other children ( Kathleen - 1906, Philip - 1909 and my father, John Patrick Healy in 1912.) Patrick died in October 1917 in Hoboken, NJ. and Mary died in 1928 in Hoboken, NJ.
I haven't been able to find their marriage record in either New Jersey or New York. It's possible they only married in a church which would explain why there don't seem to be civil records. I've searched Irishgenealogy.ie; LDS' Family Search; NationalArchives.ie and used John Grenham's book to try to locate the townland of Ballyledder.
Any help in tracing my grandparent would be appreciated. Thank you, Elizabeth
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