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My Co Mayo ancestors followed the usual child naming process - very helpful.

My Co Galway ancestors, not so much!  From my GGs (John Farrell m. Mary Roche) death cert. I know my GGGs were Luke Farrell and Ellen Doyle.  I have not found one single Luke in the 4 generations since.

Was there a notable nickname for Luke?   It just seem so strange there haven't even been any middle names of Luke, including all of John's childrens families.  Seems very odd as our John's children ALL have plenty of John's and Mary's AND several names from Mary's Roche side of the family......NO Lukes anywhere to be seen.  Any ideas?
Kate

Yes, JOhn met his wife, Mary Roche (of Co Mayo) in Baltimore where they married in 1866.

I have been able to track John Farrell, a stonecutter,  first in a 1860 Baltimore city directory.  Makes me think the 1842 birth year from the 1880 census makes the most sense of all the years I've seen listed.  I've seen as late as 1849 but that would make him only 11 in 1860 and obviously to young to be a stone cutter.  His death cert said 1947 however.

I have him and Mary in census' from1880, 1900, 10, 20 and he passed in 1930 just before that census.  No other clues as to where in Co Galway he came from.   Hmm, maybe I should see if there were certain areas in Co Galway that had quarries. Kate

Tara, thanks for your interest.  I have not seen the original church records, but a transcription of marriages of St Mary's in Baltimore said (Galway) after John's name and (Mayo) after his bride's Mary.  SO I assume those were counties and not specific cities.

I agree, I thought it would be easier to track his parents, Luke and Ellen Farrell down in Co Galway than if they came from Rosscommom but so far no luck.  I thought as John settled in Baltimore and family members said they had entered there but I spent quite a few hours going over microfilm of Baltimore entries from 1850 - 1857 and saw VERy few Farrell and nome with our specific names.  Luke and Garrett and really, only a few Johns.

I found no Luke Farrells in Griffiths.  I do have a small notation made by a deceased relative that says "Luke Farrell - REd Band, NJ 1853".  I have not been able to get to NJ, nor have I found many places on the internet to search thru ships coming there at that time.  I love the search but I hate stone walls!  Kate

I presume that 1947 is a typo and John Farrell's dob is actually 1847...

Pretty clever to marry before he was born!  I haven't found immigration records and there doesn't seem to be a civil certificate, just a church record that lists witnesses but not parents.  I was thrilled to even find that as until that discovery I had NO idea at all where to even start looking in Ireland.

John was only about 10 in 1855 when he came over and without knowing who he came with I'm having a hard time tracking him until the 1880 census when he is married with kids already.  Like I said like looking in a haystack for something, lol.  But thanks for your interest.