Tracing the Dillon family who immigrated to N.Z about 1890.
I know that there where a few brothers that came together and worked down in the Otago area as farmers and labours.
My great grand-father Patrick Dillon worked later in Cheviot and married Elizabeth Garvin another irish immigrant from Londonderry.
They lived in Gore Bay for some years raising a family, they later shifted to Christchurch where they lived until they died.
Patrick's mothers name is Catherine O'brien.
His father's name is Thomas.
The family are of the Church of England faith.
Sunday 17th Mar 2013, 04:45AM
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NEW ZEALAND: Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reason why they left,who they might have travelled with?..etc.? Generally, more information was given at the port ofarrival rather than the port of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at, this could be a goodplace to find more information -and perhaps even find out an exact place of origin. There are lots ofbooks and documents available about the Irish emigration to NZ. There is a website you could lookat: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/irish/2 for information about the Irish in New Zealand. Births/Baptisms/Marriages/Deaths ? pre1790-1800 ? The reality of finding documentationpertaining to births/baptisms/marriages/deaths in Ireland prior to 1800 ? particularly in rural areas? is that they simply may not exist. Some registers for urban areas pre-dating 1800 may exist ?though often these can be fragmented- as there was an increased need in cities or larger towns todocument the population. Please also note that the Church of Ireland was the official church of thecountry and therefore the bulk of information that does survive for earlier periods is often fromthese registers. CHURCH OF IRELAND: Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are publicrecords. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyedin the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, althoughsome are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church BodyLibrary in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/. The Anglican Record Projectis has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf
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My G-Grandfather Emigrated from Ireland in1860 with his brother Patrick.They were both miners in Central Otago around St Bathans and later farmers. He was later joined by his cousin Thomas. If this is the person Then they came from Tullycrine County Clare
Martin
Tuesday 28th Mar 2017, 03:03AM