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I have a family tree with the names of my family who moved to the states from IReland. I'm trying to find out if I have any family still there.

Wednesday 30th Jan 2013, 03:57PM

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  • I'm looking for any possible living relatives in Ireland I have names of my ancestors. Charles Edgar Curran is one.

    Wednesday 30th Jan 2013, 04:01PM
  • In order to help you in your search can you tell us a bit more about Charles Edward Curran, year of birth ect?

    There were several people born in Ireland with the same name.

    Mallow Cork

    Thursday 31st Jan 2013, 04:12PM
  • Hi Lauren

    Do you have any other information? There are Currane families from Co Kerry, and a few Charles Curranes (the surmname was spelt mostly like this  in Kerry, and changed in USA) I have found a brother  of my 2 x great grandfather that went to Massachusetts - Michael O'Connor/Connor who married Mary Currane(Curran in USA) in 1865 in Boston MA, I(I have found any living descendants yet)

    Have a look at this website - may help with Kerry records, although there weren't many with a middle name at that time that was recorded, hope this helps

    Link: http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?name2fm=&name2l=&namefm=Charles&namel=Currane&location=Kerry&dd=&mm=&yy=&submit=Search&sort=date&pageSize=100&diocese=&parish=&century=&decade=&exact=&ddB=&ddM=&ddD=&mmB=&mmM=&mmD=&yyB=&yyM=&yyD=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&keyword=

    or go to : http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/

    Hope this helps 

    Maureen O'Connor NZ

     

    Friday 26th Jul 2013, 09:55AM
  • Hi Maureen -

    I saw your post about the Curran's from Co. Kerry.  My grandmother, Mary Agnes Curran was from the Mall in Annascaul.  She married Mago Sheehy from Dingle and they moved to Somerville, Massachusetts.  A number of her family members moved to Massachusetts as well.   Do you think there is a connection with your family??

     

    Donna (McTeague) Sadoski

    Massachusetts - USA

    Digby1066

    Sunday 29th Sep 2013, 12:28AM
  • Hi Donna

    I know Michael's parents Michael & Ellen O'Connor came from Annascaul but think Mary's parents may have come from Dingle - see below Michael & Mary's marriage in Chicopee MA, they weren't in MA too long before they married, Michael's brother (my 2 x great grandfather) Patrick O'Connor & Elizabeth Deen stayed in Castlegregory, but a lot of their children immigrated - 4 to New Zealand,

    Name:    Michael O'Conner
    Titles and Terms:
    Event Type:    Marriage
    Event Date:    19 Feb 1865
    Event Place:    Chicopee, Massachusetts
    Gender:    Male
    Age:    23
    Marital Status:
    Race:
    Birth Date:
    Birthplace:
    Registration Year:
    Registration Place:
    Birth Year (Estimated):    1842
    Father's Name:    Michael O'Conner
    Father's Titles and Terms:
    Mother's Name:    Ellen Barry
    Mother's Titles and Terms:
    Spouse's Name:    Mary Curran
    Spouse's Titles and Terms:
    Spouse's Race:
    Spouse's Marital Status:
    Spouse's Father's Name:    Dennis Curran
    Spouse's Father's Titles and Terms:
    Spouse's Mother's Name:    Johanna Cahill
    Spouse's Mother's Titles and Terms:
    Certificate Number:    181
    GS Film number:    1433022
    Digital Folder Number:    4279268
    Image Number:    00622
    Number of Images:

    Citing this Record:
    "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4SG-KXL : accessed 29 Sep 2013), Michael O'Conner and Mary Curran, 1865.

    This is Denis Currane & Johanna's marriage -

    Area - KERRY (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation - DINGLE

    Marriage of DENIS CURRANE of DINGLE and JOHANNA CAHIL of NR on 25 February 1830

    Husband Wife Name DENIS CURRANE  JOHANNA CAHIL                                                                      Address DINGLE  NR  Occupation  NR NR Father NR  CURRANE NR NR Mother  NR NRNR NR

    Further details in the record

    Priest NR Husband Age NR Husband Denomination RC Husband Marital Status NR Wife Age NR Wife Marital Status NR Husband's Father's Occupation NR Wife's Father's Occupation NR Witness 1 PATRICK CAHIL Witness 2 PATRICK DEVINE

    About the record

    Book NumberPageEntry NumberRecord_IdentifierN/R88N/RKY-RC-MA-33876

    The church register page containing this record has not yet been imaged.

    Interestingly I have just made contact with a descendant of Michael & Mary's 

    If you like you can email me at zazu1pukekohe@gmail.com

    Hope this helps

    Maureen O'Connor NZ

     

     

     

    Sunday 29th Sep 2013, 02:57AM
  • Hi Maureen -

    Thank you for your message.  I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.  It's been extremely busy this month so I haven't had too much time for my genealogy research.

    I found in my Curran family tree that the name was spelt both Currane and Curran.

    The family seemed to be primarily in Annascaul and Dingle.   I will keep looking for a connection and be in touch if I find one.

    Thank you!

    Best wishes

    Donna

    USA

     

    Digby1066

    Friday 18th Oct 2013, 01:50PM
  • Hi Maureen -

    Thank you for your message.  I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.  It's been extremely busy this month so I haven't had too much time for my genealogy research.

    I found in my Curran family tree that the name was spelt both Currane and Curran.

    The family seemed to be primarily in Annascaul and Dingle.   I will keep looking for a connection and be in touch if I find one.

    Thank you!

    Best wishes

    Donna

    USA

     

    Digby1066

    Friday 18th Oct 2013, 01:52PM
  • Hi Maureen -

    Thank you for your message.  I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.  It's been extremely busy this month so I haven't had too much time for my genealogy research.

    I found in my Curran family tree that the name was spelt both Currane and Curran.

    The family seemed to be primarily in Annascaul and Dingle.   I will keep looking for a connection and be in touch if I find one.

    Thank you!

    Best wishes

    Donna

    USA

     

    Digby1066

    Friday 18th Oct 2013, 01:53PM
  • Hi Donna, Maureen and Lauren

    there is a facebook page that is connected to this website, its called west Kerry reaching out:

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/175684842565187/

    There might be a member that can help ye.

    Maureen that website you mrentioned is the best one I've come across, it has helped me go back 6 or 7 generations.

    http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/

    There is also

    Mar

    Castlegregory Deaths 1864-1870, Co. Kerry page 1

    there is also a site giving information on the Griffiths valuation and tithe applotments for Kerry but I can't find their address!!

    Hope this helps

    Sarah

     

     

     

    sarah79

    Friday 18th Oct 2013, 02:33PM
  • Lauren,

    My name is Jim O'Reilly and I am writing from Chicago.  Your great grandfather Charles Edgar Curran was the first cousin of my father Charles Curran O'Reilly and your grandfather Robert Francis Curran was my second cousin.    Your great great grandfather was Charles Peter Curran and he was from Pittsburgh - his wife was Margaret May McDonald.  His father, Charles Curran, immigrated to Pittsburgh from Derry around 1865.  He met another Irish immigrant, Catherine Hartnett in Pittsburgh and married her in 1869.   Charles Curran's father, Patrick Curran, had a farm in the townland of Brockagh, Cumber Lower just east of Derry.   The Currans were on this land in the 1831 Irish census and that is the earliest record we have of the family so far.    Oral history says that Patrick Curran was married to Jane Tracy  and that his parents were Charles Curran and Sarah Hamill.   Charles and Sarah are your great great great great great grandparents. 

    If you want more information (photographs, letters, maps etc) - search for "Pittsburgh Currans Bulletin Board" on Facebook and ask to join.  Much info posted there.     There is also a tree on Ancestry.com (that includes you!) - search for user chasloretta - the tree is call "The O'Reilly Family Tree.  You will only be able to see non-living people unless you ask for permission to see the living members of the family on the tree.   If you ask, I will invite you to see the whole tree.

    Cousin Jim

    jimbotep

    Friday 4th Jul 2014, 03:25PM

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