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[sm00z]

I have many ancestors with the names: Dunican, Boland, and Farrell from County Westmeath, Ireland. After posting several messages on the Westmeath message board, I see where several hundred people read my messages but not one reader replied to my posts. Please tell me if I am doing something wrong.

[myluck!]

It is probably just no-one has any helpful reply as yet
Bear with the rest of us - and hopefully something useful will appear

I have several postings that have yield little or nothing but I live in hope!

[sm00z]

Thanks for replying, my luck!
Many of the surnames that you have listed from your profile settled in the greater Waterbury area in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.
Dave

[shanew147]

The details mentioned in you previous Westmeath posts are all well before the start of Civil registration, so you will need to research parish records. Do you know the family religion ?

If they were Catholic you can check the various parish details, dates available, and location of the details on the Irish Times website : Westmeath RC Parishes  Most of these are available on microfilm in the National Library.

see : Introduction to Irish Records

Some parish records for the county are online on a pay-website - www.rootsireland.ie

previous posts :

 BOLAND in Tubber & Rosemount, Moate, Wesmeath
 FARRELLS in Milltown circa 1818
 DUNICANS of Rosemount, Moate, Wesmeath



Shane

[myluck!]

It's many years since I was in Connecticut lovely place especially at this time of year
I keep adding a name when I confirm it is correct which is becoming slower through pressures of time! Both currently in my life and times past and incomplete records!

[sm00z]

I guess that I'll have to be patient and just wait for responses from the people who are researching the surnames that I posted previously on the Westmeath message board. Some of those pay sites, which offer RC church records, can get to be quite expensive. It's like paying for air to fill your tires when you're paying Euros to see each page that may or may not contain the information that you are looking for.

It is interesting how so many people from Moate, Westmeath and the northern part of County Kings (Offaly) emigrated to the Waterbury, CT, USA area and married people who came from these same proximities in Ireland during the mid 1800s.

[Jack2227]

US passport applications; 1795-1929

Timoth Boland; born; 6/3/1885 Moate, Co Westmeath Ireland
Residence; San Francisco
Issued; 26/6/1920
Father; Patrick Boland (deceased)
Occup; Conductor
Reason for application; Family business.
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Jack

[Jack2227]

1861 Eng census;

Farrell James; 39,(b. Mullingar,) Newport, Groom
Mary; wife; 35, Cork
John; son; 12, Jersey
Ellen; dtr; 10, Cork
Catherine; 8, dtr; Newport
Maryann; dtr; 6 Newport
Edward; son; 7mts, Newport.
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Jack

[Jack2227]

US Naturalization records;
John Farrell;
Residence; 915, Second st, So Boston
Place & date of birth; July 6th 1880 Westmeath Ireland
Occ; Motorman
Name of wife; Mary
Date of admission; June 19th 1923
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1871 Eng cen;
Farrell Edward; 34, sawhandle maker, Athlone
Mary;wife; 33, Scarriff, Ireland
John;son; 11, Sheffield
James;son; 9, Sheffield
Catherine; dtr; 7, Sheffield
Elizabeth;dtr; 14days, Sheffield
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Have a look at the Ireland census also;
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Jack