I am looking for information on a Nora J Moylan, born in Ireland about 1863 possibly in County Limerick. Her parents were Lawrence Moylan and Bridget Fitzgerald.
She emmigrated to the United States and lived in the small town of Montague in western Massachusetts. She married a Patrick A Buckley there on 2 Nov 1889. Also living in that town was a possible relative, John Moylan ( uncle, half brother). His parents were Lawrence Moylan and Catherine Dooley. He was born in Ireland about 1843. His second wife was Abina (Abby) Buckley, sister of Patrick A Buckley.
Nora and Patrick moved to Lawrence,Massachusetts and she was widowed there in 1894. She remarried in 1896 to a Felix O'Neil.
Nora J Moylan Buckley O'Neil died 13 Dec 1933 in Lawrence, Massachusetts USA
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
rxbuck67
Thursday 8th Nov 2012, 06:53PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi - Thank you for your message.
Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reason why they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given at the 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 even find out an exact place of origin.
Some sites that may assist with this are:
Ellis Island: http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp
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 relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/
Do you know what religion they would have been? Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of available records per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance. Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library 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 Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf
Some other sites that may be of use to you are:
Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com
British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The National Archives of Ireland: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
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Monday 14th Jan 2013, 11:26AM