HI IM TRYING TO FIND MY IRISH ROOTS JAMES FOLEY WAS MY GREAT GRANDAD AND WAS BORN ABOUT 1858 IN DUNGARVAN WATERFORDAND CAME TO CARDIFF WALES. I DONT KNOW ANYTHING MORE ?? MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A SPILLANE AND HER DAD WAS A CROWLEY I THINK THESE ARE ALL IRISH NAME'S HELP ?? WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE ??? DID YOU KNOW ANY OF THESE OR MAYBE RELATED ??
Stuart:
Roots Ireland www.rootsireland.ie has an 1857 baptismal record for a James Foley in the Dungarvan RC church records. Without knowing his parents names, it may be difficult to confirm if this is the correct James Foley.
Roots is a pay site to view transcriptions of church records.
Spillane and Crowley are Irish names as you indicated. Looks like you need to do more work on your end to find birth, marriage and death records, look at the 1901 and 1911 censuses etc. and try to determine when your relatives left Ireland. Did they all come from Waterford?
Let me know if you have other questions.
Roger McDonnell
hi roger all i have is the 1911 census for james / spillane family's in wales it says james head of the house his brith date was 1858 brith place dungarvan waterford , the spillanes i was looking for my gran joanna and found her on the 1911 as 4 her mum elizabeth 40 head widow but down the bottom it say john crowley father widower aged 81 ireland co cork and some one has put 621in red next to it . i guess i need to get the 1901 census for the foleys and spillanes to see if they were here then ??
hi roger i have clicked the link but not a thing do i need to type something else in to fnd james foley
Stuart:
I assume that you are referring to the link in my October message. Looking at that link, there is an extraneous "has" in the link for some reason so it won't work. www.rootsireland.ie This link should work but you have to register and get a subscription to see any of the records.
Roger