Gibson Adams Marriage 16 April 1840

Hi,

Irish Times .com show that Benraw is in County Down, Drumgooland Civil Parish. Leitrim Presbyterian Church is  located in Benraw,  http://www.geograph.ie/photo/2645348. The site at Presbyterian Historical Society or Ireland, http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com/index.php?id=39, should be able to help direct you on your search to obtain the marriage record if possible.

On the place name Derrywell, (As I am also in a continual state of learning) I looked for this place-name in the Irish Times .com site http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames. This is an excellent site that has many free features to help your searches with place names and the corresponding parishes, surname plotting, ancestor search, etc...  Looked in http://www.irish-place-names.com , as well as http://www.logainm.ie and none are showing a Derrywell, there are some that are close though.

To try to locate some records in Ireland you could try https://familysearch.org. Just keep the dates in a looser format range instead of exact date, to try to track down a little more data to work with. The family search site used with Griffiths Valuation http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ might reveal where to look for more records on both William and Elizabeths? fathers.  One of the results might correspond to where William and Elizabeth married. There are great help pointers at http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/index.html on what records are located where; and an excellent article at http://www.from-ireland.net/genealogy/Research-Hints#display .

Emigration/ Immigration - This is going to require some digging. As members of the Gibson family emigrated from Ireland to U.S., even a guess at the date range and/ or location of entry will help to isolate where you should look. Did they arrive through Canada to New York or straight to New York? Depending on the date, the records might be U.S. held or on a ships list If after 1864 there might be a record in Ireland. Unfortunately, many records which used to be available as open, available and free on the internet have been bulk site purchased by a large company with the corresponding links disabled. This includes transcription indexes for a lot of small sites used as resources a decade ago; as well as some governmentally held records at the U.S. National Archives.  http://www.genesearch.com/newyork/index.html can be used to access the site that currently holds the lists for your time period. A trial subscription can be utilized, just make sure you cancel before the ?free? period is up and realize that many ?trees? showing at the site contain errors, so proof everything and if it is only ?site typed? data with no image, use it only as ?possible lead?.

Good Luck in your search, Jeanette