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Kerry / Michael Joseph O'Connor, 1860s birth record
« on: Monday 10 July 17 21:09 BST (UK) »
I'm hoping that someone can help me find a birth or baptismal record for my grandfather, Michael Joseph O'Connor, son of Jeremiah O'Connor and Catherine Fitzgerald O'Connor. Records here in the U.S. are very confusing as to his age, but I tend to believe records that would place his birth around 1868 in Ballinskelligs, County Kerry, or some place close by.
Family members told me, as a child, that he earned his steerage as a laborer on the Donald O'Connell Cathedral and that means that stories that he came to the U.S. in 1888 are credible.
I'm estimating his mother's birth year as 1842 but have no idea as to his father's. Catherine Fitzgerald's brother, Edward, emigrated to Connecticut and was the scion of a politically powerful family in New Haven.
I've searched the online records available through Ancesty.com and have had no luck.
Any help, at any time, would be greatly appreciated. And, of course, if anyone is familiar with my great-grandparents, Jeremiah and Catherine, I'd love to hear it.
Family members told me, as a child, that he earned his steerage as a laborer on the Donald O'Connell Cathedral and that means that stories that he came to the U.S. in 1888 are credible.
I'm estimating his mother's birth year as 1842 but have no idea as to his father's. Catherine Fitzgerald's brother, Edward, emigrated to Connecticut and was the scion of a politically powerful family in New Haven.
I've searched the online records available through Ancesty.com and have had no luck.
Any help, at any time, would be greatly appreciated. And, of course, if anyone is familiar with my great-grandparents, Jeremiah and Catherine, I'd love to hear it.