Hello Paula,
Thank you for the interest.
My great great grandfather, Bernard Barnabus Kean (Keane?) was born on 4 May 1790. He was baptized on 10 November 1792 in County Galway,Tuam Parish. The record list his parents as Thomas Keane and Honor Walsh and sponsors as John Kean & Eleanor Duffay.
He and some of his brothers and some others named Lynch sailed thier own boat to somewhere near Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Family stories passed along the account that it took them about 90 days to reach the USA sometime in the early 1800's.
Bernard married Charlotta Dell on 18 September 1825. One of their sons, William Kean (war records changed the name to Kane), my great grandfather fought in and survived the American Civil War. My grandmother, Charlotta Liberta Jane Kane, was born after he came home from the war.
There is much more to be told.
Hopefully I will be able to visit Tuam Parish someday.
Tuesday 31st Jan 2012, 10:33AM
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General-North/South America: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 7th Feb 2013, 12:37PM