Can You Find The Parents of Ellen Kernan (Maiden Name: Donnelly)?

[LucasKernan]

Ellen Kernan (maiden name Donelly) was born in some time in December 1872 in Northern Ireland. She immigrated in the 1890s. She married a Person called William Kernan in New Jersey, America in the year 1895. William came from Southern Ireland. In the New Jersey State of 1915, it says that Ellen Kernan (Ellen Donnelly) was born in Northern Ireland. Can You find the parents of Ellen Kernan (Ellen Donnelly, she had a brother and sister living in Ireland).

[ColC]

There were 24 Ellen Donnelly registrations 1872/1873, if she was born at the end on 1872 it might have been registered early the following year. You can view the records on the site below, however the 24 were spread over the whole of Ireland, you would need to have some idea of where to look or go through them all. It is an easy site to view once you get used to it but it is free!

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie

Colin

[heywood]

If you know names of her siblings you could also search for their births and if they stayed in Ireland, as you say, here is a link to the census.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

[heywood]

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV97-TBLS

Is this her in 1915? I don’t see Northern Ireland and her birth is given as December 1873.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV97-TBLS

[Kiltaglassan]

Good find, heywood! 

I think it's been transcribed incorrectly.

There are seven children on the next page, several of which definitely say Kernan.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89QP-56RC?i=3&cc=2061544&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQV97-TBLS

[jonwarrn]

The US census taken after the partition of Ireland
1930
William Kernan, 57, born Irish Free State
Ellen Kernan, 56, born Ireland North
Transcribed Hernan on FamilySearch
Image
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRCN-CV9

1940
William Kernan, 68, born S Ireland
Ellen Kernan, 86(?), born N Ireland
Image
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899M-37D8

[heywood]

Thanks, so it is in later censuses. That’s a help. 

[aghadowey]

The problem is that you need more details to cross-check any possible birth records found in Ireland. Is there a marriage or death certificate which lists name of her parents?

[heywood]

Some trees have the marriage:

26th July 1895 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.