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Thomas Dobbins, born county Cork, Ireland 1800s.  Does anyone have any leads for me to trace Dobbins ancestry?  This is my first post & I realize the question isn't very specific.  Plan to add detail as I uncover more information.

Wanted to see if there was any follow up for your research? I'm lookong into a Thomas Dobbins from Cork and wondering if they may be related?

I checked my Dobbins line from the South of Ireland. No Southern Irish and Northern Irish in those days. All ended up in Missouri. No New York.

I did keep seeing Dobbins based out in Illinois and Kansas for when I was trying to research James' father popping up in my hints, but thank you for checking!

I also spoke to my relative and they said that the only thing they were able to go off of was this manifest of James entering New York at at 13. Given his birth year it'd be between 1835 to 1840 that I have. I had also found a Census from 1900 in his hometown saying he arrived in 1848, but I also know those can be estimates. Sorry for the potato quality, had to meet the file size requirements.

Quote from: oldohiohome on Tuesday 18 June 19 23:47 BST (UK)

The Cortland - Fulton connection is possible, since they aren't that far apart.

Except that the Fulton man, John Dobbins was born in Cork and the Cortland man Patrick was said to be born in KIlkenny. Makes it difficult.

Understandable. I've been trying to check most of this afternoon to see if I could find any correlation or something I may have overlapped. Know it was a longshot but maybe I was overlooking something?

Hi Everyone,

I was hoping for some clarify, as this has been bugging me a little bit. I've been trying to cross reference and expand my family tree and found some pretty solid information regarding James' children but kind of went down a rabbit hole when I was trying to research his supposed family. I forget where, but it might have been early in building my tree, but I could have sworn I found some correlation between James and them. I kept finding relatives in Cortland / Erie, NY and built my tree off of that, but going back, there's some potential discrepancies that I'm not 100% sure if its human error, or if they people who've posted it are wrong. This was before I in-depth fact checked and added family trees if certain details lined up, so I know better now a days. Currently, I'm not sure I can find where I found the original information that led me down this road.

My question is if there's any records that line up Jame's being related to the individuals from Cortland / Erie NY. I'd rather pay for my early mistake and be wrong before building upon an incorrect tree (even though I've been getting great results from it)

James L. Dobbins (APR 1835 • County Cork, Ireland) - this is vague since I wasn't able to pinpoint the exact location of his birth - 11 JUN 1909 • New York, New York)

Married Mary A. Cryan (18 JUL 1837 • Ballycullane, Tintern, Wexford, Ireland -  6 SEP 1914 • Fulton, New York) Know her death date is accurate.

Jame's alleged parents:

Michael Dobbins  (MAY 1801 • Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland) - Unknown Death
Margaret Cremin (1806 • County Cork, Ireland - 29 APR 1853 • New York)

The Children I've come across sometimes have James in it, others do not. I'm not sure if there were more children based on what I was seeing currently:

Patrick Kerry Dobbins (MAR 1844 • County, Kilkenny, Ireland - 2 FEB 1915 • Homer, Cortland, New York, United States)
Mary Dobbins (1839 • Coolagarranroe, Burncourt, Co Tipperary, Ireland - Unk)
David Dobbins (1831 • Coolagarranroe, Burncourt, Co Tipperary, Ireland - Unk)

Any help would be appreciated if possible:

Thank you

Have you looked thru http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

Sandra

I've taken a small dive into there and grabbed a few articles, but haven't done so extensively.