Hi All.
Thank you so much for the replies, you are so good to give your time. Since my first post I have come along way in finding out about the Cummins + McDonald connections, in Queens County but, cannot get past John Cummins, an apprentice painter with Matthews in Portarlington prior to him joining the army. We know that his Farther died in 1861 when John was only one year old and his mother Bridget left for New York taking her older children with her leaving John to be raised by his Grandmother ****** Mc Donald. I cannot find Bridget's Mother or Family nor the death of James, his father, There are two marriages I have found one a "Bess Md Donald" another a "Bridget" marrying a James Cummins at different times??? Conundrum... which is it without proof of Bridget's parents I cannot proceed. I would love the birth and death cert of James Cummins died 1861. Could it be he died away, say in the Army? Is there anywhere in Laois that may have "local" records.
Again many thanks
Des Cummins
