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Offline sdosser

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McNeill/McCann
« on: Wednesday 24 October 07 23:27 BST (UK) »
I'm looking for info on Robert McNeill b. ~1808 and his wife Elizabeth McCann b. ~1807.  I only know that they were from Co. Antrim.  They immigrated to Canada in 1847.

Their children, all born in Ireland, were:

Anna
Neil
Mary Jane
Fanny
Elizabeth



Offline aghadowey

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Re: McNeill/McCann
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 24 October 07 23:39 BST (UK) »
Without a more exact location in Ireland than Co. Antrim it will be very difficult to find any information. If you know the area in Canada they went to perhaps you will be able to find some clues there- death certificates, gravestones, newspaper obituaries/death notices, family Bible, etc. may have the name of the place they came from in Ireland (need parish if not actual townland). Often people came in groups or went to place where friends/relatives settled so might be clues in area.
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!