My research indicates that my great grandmother, Bridget FLAHERTY (1845-1891) was born in County Mayo and probably from Crossmolina Parish. Her parents were Michael FLAHERTY and Mary O'MALLEY. She immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, USA and married a James MURPHY there. She had sisters named Mary (1845-1919) and Margaret (Maggie) (1852-1918) who also immgrated to Cleveland and died there. Mary FLAHERTY married the bother of my James, Martin MURPHY, again in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. There was also a brother named John FLAHERTY, born about 1850, who may have died in the American Civil War.
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To date no record has been found confirming Crossmolina as their parish of origin and Ballinrobe remains as yet another possibility. I will also post there.
Anyone finding a Michael & Mary (nee O'Malley) FLAHERTY connection, anywhere in County Mayo, Please contact me.
Thursday 2nd Feb 2012, 08:12PM
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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:
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 14th Feb 2013, 02:25PM