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Searching for McDonagh ancestors

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Looking for help to locate info on John McDonagh born about 1798 in Irie married to Ann Mattimoe(?). John brothers were: Bryan (Bernard) (Wife= Abigail Finnegan, daughter of Patrick Finnegan)  and Michael, and possibly Patrick (Wife = Bridgit Crowley). John's father may have been Domminick (Wife = Bridgit Corley).

John, my g.g. grandfather had daughters Bridgit, Mary, and Margaret born in Irie and about 1838-1840, Michael was born in Huntingdon Quebec.

Bryan and John were farmers. Bryan emigrated to Quebec in 1832, John in 1837 and John died in 1880 at 81 years old. Catholic -St Joseph parish tombstone reads that John was a native of Co Sligo Ireland. This is the only info I have re our Irish origin place name.

Any help would be most appreciated!

SMcD.

 

 

 

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General-North/South America: 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 The Library & Archives of Canada -http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html The National Archives of Irelandhttp://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

 

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