John Sinnot and Mary Davis

Thanks Roger I found the baptismal records for all the kids on the NLI website. I was hoping there might be other records like directories, land records, etc. that I might be able to find. 

 

Hi Barbara:

Thanks for your email.  

You might consider creating some Ancestor profiles for members of this family.  You can do so through this link:

https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database

As Roger said, it is very early, and it may be a case of trying to trace the family forward and looking at others who may have resided nearby in Monroe County, and who may have had a family connection with these ancestors.  Church records can be very helpful in the U.S. for the baptisms of any children born to this couple.  Census records can also be helpful by lookiing at the other families who lived next-door or very close by.  If they took out naturalisation papers, it also might give further information.  

I would also recommend that if you believe that any of the children remained in Ireland (or emigrated elsewhere), you might try to trace them forward.  

Did any of the emigrants have death notices?  Often those death notices give information about them as to where they came from, other family members, etc.  

Have you checked Irish Genealogy for any civil death records for either John Sinnot and/or Mary Davis Sinnot?  If they died after 1864, a civil death record might be helpful as to where they were living, who noted the death, and other information.  

If you need any further information, please let us know.  The Irish Genealogy website link is:  http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/

 

Kind regards,

 

Jane

 

Barbara, if you are (or know who is) the administrator for the YDNA kit with the earliest ancestor of John Sennott in the Sennett/Sinnott DNA surname project, I wonder if you might want to consider upgrading this kit to BigY?   I am the DNA project administrator for this surname project.  The reason I am suggesting this upgrade, is that of the 5 matches your line has to other project members at Y111 level, two of them have already upgraded to BigY with their shared results allowing a huge amount more definition in the recent branching of their genetic tree, and there another two of those five Y111 matches with BigY tests in progress.    The two new tests are both from people with known common ancestor in the 16th century (one who is your line's closest match at Y111), so I would expect much greater definition in the branching of the E haplogroup tree that will help figure out where your line fits.  It may not help put names to earlier generations just yet, but I think  any shared variants in the more recent timeframe will really help figure out how your family links to these others and put a better time frame on common ancestors.   The other alternative would be to do some targetted SNP testing - you could message me as project admin through FTDNA (or through the surname study at one-name.org) if you were more interested in that angle, though I think for cost and benefit I'd still be recommending a BigY upgrade.

Did you check Brian Cantrell's Memorials for the Dead? There are many Sinnotts and similar listed in Wexford cemeteries that I noted while at the NLI in 2013 recording my Keatings in the 4 volumes that cover Wexford. The volumes are available online at https://iancantwell.com/BrianCantwellMemorials.php and maybe FindMyPast, etc.

 

Barbara  --  In 1999, I visited in Wexford, and one of my hosts was John Synnott, who was described as the unofficial genealogist of the area around Parknashogue, Gorey.  He was able to provide me with data regarding my Weadick ancestors of that area back into the mid-1800s and a bit beyond.  He was an elderly man at the time.  If he is still living, I should think you might be able to contact him through some Wexford genealogical society, or, if not, by writing to the pastor of Mary, Star of the Sea parish in Ballygarret.  --  Griff Crump

 

Thanks for the info

Jane - I have both the civil and church death records for both John and Mary, they both died in Monroe County, Illinois and there is no info about their families. There were no obituaries for them in the local papers. None of the children remained in Ireland. They all emigrated and I have the obituaries of all of them and there is no information about the family. 

jward thanks for the info, I'll check it out.

Griff thanks for the info, I'll see if I can get in touch with him. 

 

 

 

Hi Barbara:  

thanks for the update.  That's a pity but all is not lost.  Keep searching and hopefully someone will see the post and profile and contact you.
 

 Good luck!!

All the best,

Jane 

Barbara  --  I confused a couple of trips in my post regarding John Synnot.  Actually, I met him in Wexford as late as about 2009.  So, the odds of still finding him might be better.  --  Griff Crump