Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Lauramars

Pages: [1]
1
Carlow / Re: Another Murray Search
« on: Tuesday 20 August 13 01:33 BST (UK)  »
Hello Don,

Thanks for your post!  Good to know that others are still looking for the same Patrick Murray... as I have reached a dead end just like many before me.  I have all of the items you mention and I'm not really sure he's the same Patrick Murray that was naturalized in Boston.  I would also be willing to share what I have.  I was in touch with a distant cousin who actually went to Ireland and tried tracking him down but came home with nothing.  Message me your email address and we can share info.

Thanks!
Laura

2
Carlow / Re: Another Murray Search
« on: Sunday 03 March 13 16:12 GMT (UK)  »
Hello ballydw,  thanks for your response.

I do have his marriage cert but there are no parents names listed on it.  He used 1817 as his year of birth but the ages he reported on all of the US census records put his birth anywhere from 1817-1828.  He used Mar 17 as his birthdate but a relative who visited Ireland 15 yrs ago was told if emigrants didn't know their birthdate they were given St. Patrick's Day.

I believe a couple of his siblings names were James and Mary.  Other relatives believe he is the Patrick Murray who arrived on the Sarah Sheaffe in May of 1936 but if so, he is unaccounted for until he married my GGGrandmother in 1853.

He never used a middle initial but relatives believe it is a J.  However, on my GGGrandfather's death cert. his father is listed as Patrick D. Murray.

This is my dilemma.

3
Carlow / Another Murray Search
« on: Sunday 03 March 13 06:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hello  :)  I'm new at this but I've been doing a lot of looking around and am very overwhelmed.  Where do I start if I have very little information?  I know my GGgrandfather's name (Patrick Murray - at least it was when he came to the U.S.) and I have his approximate year of birth.  I believe I also know a couple of his sibling's names.  He came from Carlow and was Roman Catholic.  But that's it.  Several others, before me, have attempted this but surely there has to be something somewhere!  He didn't just materialize!  ;)  Any guidance at all would be appreciated!

Pages: [1]