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The passenger list says their destination was Philadelphia, and other people on that page had other destinations, so it looks like it was probably not just a default entry.

Do you know who the mother of Edward's children was?

Hi

Thanks for your reply. I do indeed know this.

In the 1821 census of Ireland the family are showing in Kilmore, Co Cavan and are listed here

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1821/Cavan/Kilmore/Snakeel/26/

The family are

Edward Donoho - 45
Margaret Donoho - 40*
Patt Donoho - 17**
Bridget Donoho - 15*
Hugh Donoho - 13*
Edward Donoho - 11*
David Donoho - 9
Ally (Alice) Donoho - 7
Thomas Donoho - 5
Margaret Donoho - 3

We also know from that ship list there was another child on the ship, probably younger than Margaret born after the 1821 census. Unfortunately the name is obscured.

* These people were not on the boat in 1832. I have some possible lines of enquiry for Edward Jnr and possibly Hugh getting married in Cavan but nothing proven yet

** Patt or Patrick married Ann Degnan and can be found in the 1841 census living in Kinkeel, Killeshandra in the Degnan Homestead. Patrick is my direct relation.

So it is possible some of the * people on the list had already gone to the US before Edward and the younger kids arrived.

Hi, I've found a very interesting document showing an almost entire family related to me leaving Liverpool on the "gulnare" for Philadelphia in 1832. I've thought myself how to research Ireland but I'm a bit green on how to approach it from the US side.

On that boat was Edward Donohoe (father) his sons Thomas, David  and daughters alice, margaret and a fifth child whose 1st name is illegible.

So I'm looking for some direction on where to look next.

1- how do I find out if all passengers survived the trip
2- where they might have moved to.
3- marriages deaths etc

Thanks for your help.

Hi all.

Lucky for me my family came from killeshandra, co cavan. The census of 1821 and 1841 exist for killeshandra. One thing puzzles me. The townland on Snakeel is listed in the 1821 census (under kilmore which is the diocese in which killeshandra is) however in 1841 Snakeel is missing from the census. Even today Snakeel exists, and a very picturesque place it is. Would anyone know what happened in 1841?

Hi guys. Thanks for all the posts this morning. I should have told you what I know in more detail...

Maggie Jane Corcoran

She appears in both census of 1901 and 1911 in Bailieboro (as outlined above)

1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cavan/Bailieboro/Corkish/1053204/

1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cavan/Enniskeen/Clonturkan/315839/

She had a son Michael in 1912, not showing on the irishgenealogy.ie website but I have a birth cert, Michael was my Grandfather.

She had another son Stephen in 1916 (as whiteout 7 shows above)

She had a son vincent born in 1923. Born in Co Care Home Cavan Town. Died in Leitrim, living with another family but having never known his mother or father (info from descendents of people he lived with), he is buried in the plot of that family and died in 1986

Supposedly, again word of mouth from other family members there are at least 2 more kids

A Patrick and a Christopher. I concentrated on Christopher as the story is he moved to England, got married and had some kids. I dont know when or where he was born but I am guessing it was probably in Cavan in 1920 or so.

So what I am looking for is

1) Any info on Christophers life in the UK, his marriage, descendants etc
2) Any idea what happened to Maggie Jane as there is no sign of her ever marrying or dying on irishgenealogy.ie and in ancestry.com I wasnt able to find anything I could link to Bailieboro or Cavan in that name after the birth of Vincent in 1923
3) Any information on Patrick her other son.

Also, as you have seen the name is Corcoran and was in previous generations before Maggie and is still today in current family. However, in Bailieboro in the late 1800s and early 1900s the name was recorded under a whole range of different spellings and often mixes up with 2 presbyterian settler names - Corkin and Cochrane. On top of that some really odd spellings like Corkran etc. So that complicates it even more. The main point is, I have done a huge amount of trawling in Ireland and I am trying to do the same in England but it seems to me that in England there it is very hard to find anything. So what I mean by that is if I was looking for a Corcoran getting married in Ireland in 1940, i could look at the record, see a parent name, an address, a witness etc. In the UK I just only see names and no way to verify against any other data. Maybe that's just my lack of experience researching those records.

Thanks again for your time

Thats really useful, thanks.