I am looking for information on Bernard and Catherine McGuinness and their children. I believe Bernard was born about 1818 and Catherine about 1820. They children were Luke(1837 -1916); Thomas B, (1840-1920): Bridget (1847-1904) John (1850 - abt 1915) and Catherine (1853-1885). I believe they arrived in Boston Massachusetts about 1866. I know for a fact that all the children were living in Burrillville Rhode Island by 1872. I don't know if the parents came here as well but I do know that these five sibblings did. John listed Westmeath as his place of birth on his naturalization papers in 1888.I don't have a maiden name for Catherine the mother. All the children were married in New England to fellow Irish immigrants. Luke married Catherine Carr daughter of Philip and Mary Carr. Thomas married Mary Creighton daughter of Owen and Catherine Carty Creighton. Bridget married James Carroll, parents unknown. John married Sarah Workman, parents unknown. Catherine married Thomas Keefe son of James and Mary Newman Keefe. I'm the oldest living descendant of the daughter Catherine so anything you can find would be greatly appreciated.
katemospaw
Thursday 28th Feb 2013, 08:21PMMessage Board Replies
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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: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 4th Apr 2013, 11:30AM