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Looking for the Cummings that were noted to have arrived and settled in Chester County, Pa USA about 1760.  Supposedly, John Cummings came from Ireland with 15 brothers in 1760.  Settled in Chester County, PA, then on to Northumberland Cty, PA. USA. 

Looking for any details on this family line.

Thank you!!!

Wednesday 17th Apr 2013, 03:44PM

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    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

     

    Thursday 18th Apr 2013, 11:25AM
  • Thank you for all the links, I have tried many of them, nothing ever comes up for that early of time period.

    Just hoping I could connect with more people looking for that line, after all, there were 16 brothers that came at once.  Which to me seems somewhat odd, but who knows. 

    Thanks!

    Thursday 18th Apr 2013, 12:58PM

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