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Hi , I am desperately searching for information on my GGGrandmother Mary O'Neill.

I have been looking for years now and I just can't find anything regarding herself and her family prior to coming to Australia.

I would so love to be able to find out exactly where they came from as I would love to come visit Ireland and the home of her birthplace.

Mary is the beginning of us in Australia! 

Mary came as a famine orphan,settled in the Hunter Valley of NSW marrying James Connor and having many children, my GGrandfather Arthur Connor was her second youngest but not the son of James Connor ( another mystery I am yet to solve)🤔

This is all the information I have on Mary pre Australia

Ship records

O'Neill descendant

Sunday 18th Jun 2023, 12:12AM

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  • I found the following on RootsIreland.  It could be your Mary.

    Mary O'Neill

    Baptism:        12-May-1833          

    RC parish:     Roscommon, Co. Roscommon

    Father:           John O'Neill 

    Mother:         Mary O'Neill

    Sponsor 1 /   Thomas Mally

    Sponsor 2 /Mary Macdermott

    Fr Brennan

     

    Patricia

    Sunday 18th Jun 2023, 12:26AM

  • Do you know the names of any of Mary's siblings? There are baptisms for several of them on RootsIreland.

    Do you know the names of her children? 

    Thanks.

    Patricia

    Sunday 18th Jun 2023, 12:28AM

  • Hello Patricia,

    Thankyou for this information 

    I wonder if that is her ? 

    I don't know of any siblings as I've never been successful finding anything pre Australia,but I'm sure she would of had some. Which parish are these records in ? 

    Mary's children's names are , Mary, Elizabeth,Ann, Joseph, James, Thomas, Edmund, Arthur and Frederick,I think that's all just off the top of my head.

    Thankyou

    Melissa

     

    O'Neill descendant

    Sunday 18th Jun 2023, 08:33PM

  • You seem to have duplicate threads posted here, with differing responses.  I've sent you some info in the other thread, which you may wish to check out.

    kevin45sfl

    Sunday 18th Jun 2023, 11:54PM

  • Yes sorry ,I will delete the other one ,I don't know how that happened 🤷

    O'Neill descendant

    Monday 19th Jun 2023, 03:55AM

  •  I found two baptisms for possible brothers of Mary O'Neill. They are listed at rootsireland.ie.

    Both have parents Mary and John. Both, like Mary, were baptized in the RC parish of Roscommon in Co. Roscommon.  Mary's record has no address. The two following have addresses of Ballinaboy townland and "Cullenboy" townland, which may be Killeenboy.

     

    Baptism  O'Neil    John       1835      Co. Roscommon               Ballinaboy

    Baptism  O'Neil    Agustine              1837      Co. Roscommon               Cullenboy

    Patricia

    Monday 19th Jun 2023, 03:05PM

  • Thankyou 

    Looks like I'll need to do some more research.

    Do you know where you can get the names of people that went into workhouses ? Maybe her whole family ended up in a workhouse,it says on the ships record that there was no work house in Roscommin,but there was 🤷

     

    O'Neill descendant

    Tuesday 20th Jun 2023, 08:32PM

  • No orphans sorry ,not no workhouse, maybe Mary just fitted the criteria to go to Australia?

    O'Neill descendant

    Tuesday 20th Jun 2023, 08:35PM

  • Hi kevin45sfl, 

     Sorry but I deleted the email address you put in your message of someone who may be able to help me ,would you be able to send it again for me ?

    Regards Melissa 

    O'Neill descendant

    Tuesday 18th Jul 2023, 03:10AM

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