Updated 22 December 2017. Update kindly supplied by Helen O’Carroll, Curator/Manager, Kerry County Museum. (Also Blennerville; Gateway to Tralee’s Past)
| Name of Ship | Destination | No. on Board | Date of Departure |
| Union | St. Johns N.B | 87 | 17 May 1828 |
| Marie | British America | Unknown | 1 Aug 1828 |
| Union | St. John, New B. | Unknown | 6 Apr 1829 |
| Sarah | St. John | Unknown | 8 Apr 1829 |
| Sarah | Quebec | 130 | 8 Apr 1830 |
| Brother | Quebec | Unknown | 22 May 1830 |
| Union | Quebec | 160+ | 25 May 1831 |
| Sarah | Quebec | 10 | 6 Aug 1831 |
| Sarah | Quebec | 180 | 17 Apr 1832 |
| Toronto | Quebec | Unknown | 26 May 1832 |
| Sarah | Quebec | Unknown | 18 Aug 1832 |
| Sarah | Quebec | 67 | 17 Apr 1833 |
| Furnesia | New York | Unknown | 17 April 1833 |
| Toronto | Quebec | Unknown | 6 May 1834 |
| Furnesia | New York | Unknown | 17 April 1833 |
| Totonto | Quebec | Unknown | 26 May 1832 |
| Furnesia | New York | Unknown | 17 April 1833 |
| Totonto | Quebec | Unknown | 6 May 1834 |
| Maria | Quebec | 204 | 5 July 1834 |
| Albion | Quebec | 13 | 9 Aug 1834 |
| Maria | Quebec | 25 | 20 Aug 1834 |
| Albion | Quebec | 150 | 18 April 1835 |
| Britannia | Quebec | 42 | 18 April 1835 |
| Britannia | Quebec | 120 | 16 Apr 1836 |
| Triton | Quebec | Unknown | 13 May 1836 |
| Zoir | Quebec | 157 | 17 June 1836 |
| Triton | Quebec | 97 | 15 May 1837 |
| Breeze | Quebec | 97 | 20 May 1837 |
| John | Quebec | 92 | 14 June 1837 |
| Triton | Quebec | Unknown | 5 Aug 1837 |
| Breeze | Quebec | Unknown | 5 Aug 1837 |
| William IV | Quebec | Unknown | 28 April 1838 |
| Ann | Quebec | 100 | 5 Jun 1839 |
| Ann | Quebec | Unknown | 29 May 1840 |
| Elutheria | Quebec | Unknown | 25 July 1840 |
| Lord Cochrane | Quebec | 399 | 21 April 1841 |
| Nicholson | Quebec | 72 | 30 June 1841 |
| Eleutheria | Quebec | 250 | 20 Apr 1842 |
| Jane | Quebec | Unknown | 10 May 1842 |
| Harriette | Quebec | 130 | 25 May 1842 |
| Irvine | New Brunswick | Full | 25 May 1842 |
| Lavinia | St. John, N.B. | Full | 25 May 1842 |
| John & Mary Ann | Quebec | Full | 12 Aug 1842 |
| Hero | Quebec | 121 | 20 May 1843 |
| Eleutheria | Quebec | Unknown | 27 Aug 1843 |
| Eleutheria | Quebec | 150 | 13 Apr 1844 |
| John | Quebec | Unknown | 3 june 1845 |
| Sir James McDonnell | St. John, N.B | Unknown | 2 Apr 1846 |
| Eleutheria | Quebec | Unknown | 2 May 1846 |
| British Empire | Quebec | 356 | 15 June 1846 |
| James & Mary Sinnott | Quebec | Unknown | 1 Sept 1846 |
| Eleutheria | New York | 4 | 23 Oct 1846 (arr) |
| Dryden | New York | 29 | 19 Mar 1847 |
| Jane May | Baltimore | 6 | 28 Mar 1847 |
| Jane May | Baltimore | Unknown | April 1847 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 193 | 24 Apr 1848 |
| Rose | Quebec | 61 | 18 May 1848 |
| Jeanie Johnston | New York | Unknown | 22 Aug 1848 |
| Theris | Quebec | 40 | 28 Aug 1848 |
| Bryan Abbs | Quebec | Unknown | 28 Aug 1848 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Baltimore | 142 | 13 Mar 1849 |
| Miame | Quebec | Unknown | 4 April 1849 |
| Eliza | Quebec | 126 | 5 April 1849 |
| Heather Bell | New York | 122 | 8 April 1849 |
| Jabez | Quebec | 109 | 10.April 1849 |
| Moses John | Boston | 80 | 14 April 1849 |
| Hope | Quebec | 92 | 12 May 1849 |
| Eliza Edwards | St. Johns N.B. | Unknown | 19 May 1849 |
| Triumph | Quebec | 88 | 12 May 1849 |
| Princeton | Baltimore | N.Y. List | 18 July 1849 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | Unknown | 27 Aug 1849 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | Unknown | 20 April 1850 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | Full | 21 Aug 1850 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | Unknown | 29 Mar 1851 |
| Toronto | New York | 140 | 8 April 1851 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 188 | 23 April 1851 |
| Stambone | New York | 160 | 9 May 1851 |
| 1 ship | America | 56 | 25 May 1851 |
| Miame | Quebec | 111 | 31 May 1851 |
| 3 large ships | Quebec | Unknown | 4 June 1851 |
| Huron | Quebec | 270 | 20 June 1851 |
| Souvenir | New York | 120 | 28 June 1851 |
| Chieftain | Quebec | 260 | 19 July 1851 |
| Venilia | Quebec | Full | 20 Aug 1851 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 200 | 20 Aug 1851 |
| Miame | New York | 110 | 14 Sept 1851 |
| Anne | New York | 340 | 11 Oct 1851 |
| Ellen | New York | 350 | 18 Oct 1851 |
| Aliwal | New York | Full | 10 Nov 1851 |
| Lismahagow | New York | 249 | 25 Mar 1852 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 188 | 17 April 1852 |
| New Brunswick | New York | 324 | 10 April 1852 |
| Miamee | New York | Unknown | 15 May 1852 |
| Gypsy | New York | 309 | 19 May 1852 |
| Irvine | New York | Unknown | 19 Aug 1852 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 200 | 26 Aug 1852 |
| Miame | North America | 200 | 1 Sept 1852 |
| Rajah | New York | 250 | 2 Sept 1852 |
| Large vessel | New York | 250 | 25 Sept 1852 |
| Speed | New York | 300 | 12 Oct 1852 |
| Duke | New York | Unknown | 28 Oct 1852 |
| Lady Russell | New York | 370 | 1 April 1853 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 234 | 21 April 1853 |
| Blarney | America | 100 | 8 May 1853 |
| Intrinsic | New York | Full | 20 May 1853 |
| Jane | New York | 250 | 26 April 1853 |
| Intrinsic | New York | 227 | 20 May 1853 |
| Lady Russell | America | 387 + several deck passengers | 30 May 1853 |
| Blarney | London | 8 working class | 8 June 1853 |
| England | New York | 309 | 9 June 1853 |
| Irvine | New York | 235 | 16 July 1853 |
| Peru | Quebec | 80 | 23 July 1853 |
| Prince of Wales | New York | 249 | 5 Aug 1853 |
| Telegraph | New York | 229 | 20 Aug 1853 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 158 | 22 Aug 1853 |
| Lismahagow | New York | 320 | 2 April 1854 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 191 | 18 April 1854 |
| Ava | Quebec | 200 | 2 April 1854 |
| Glenemara | New Orleans | 560 | 29 April 1854 |
| Lady Russell | Quebec | 500 | 13 May 1854 |
| England | New York | 323 | 8 June 1854 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 191 | 17 June 1854 |
| Duke | Quebec | 354 | 1 July 1854 |
| Naomi | New York | 365 | 1 July 1854 |
| Gypsy | New York | 326 | 4 Aug 1854 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | 205 | 18 Aug 1854 |
| Large vessel | New York | 350 | 9 Sept 1854 |
| Theodore | New York | 404 | 29 Sept 1854 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | Unknown | 18 April 1855 |
| Devon | Quebec | Unknown | 1 June 1855 |
| Jeanie Johnston | Quebec | Unknown | 20 July 1855 |
| Pemberton | Quebec | 415 | 1 Aug 1855 |
| Edward O’Brien | New York | 300 | 3 Oct 1855 |
| Anne Thompson | Quebec | 200 | 3 May 1856 |
| Lochiel | New York | 360 | 23 May 1856 |
| Intrinsic | New York | 230 | 29 May 1856 |
| Carrioca | New York | 200 | 30 May 1856 |
| Eliza | Quebec | 230 | 4 July 1856 |
| William Rathbone | New York/Boston | 150 | 16 Aug 1856 |
| St. Clair | Quebec | 220 | 12 June 1857 |
| Sandusky | New York | 325 | 17 July 1857 |
| Lady Russell | New York | 300 | 22 Sept 1857 |
| Constitution | America | 380 | 12 May 1858 |
| A.Z. | New York | 300 | 10 July 1858 |
| Baltic | New York | 400 | 25 May 1859 |
| Large vessel | America | 300 | 20 April 1861 |
| London Steamer | England | 100 | 20 April 1861 |
| Inman Steamer | America | 300 | 2 May 1863 |
| 2 Large vessels | Quebec/America | 243/249 | 23 April 1865 |
| Alleppo | America | 95 | 6 April 1867 |
‘By1860, direct emigration from Tralee had declined. The development of specialised passenger shipping, coupled with increasingly rigorous passenger legislation, restricted the use of cargo vessels as emigrant ships. The railway line from Tralee to Cork made Queenstown more easily accessible to Kerry emigrants and regular steamers from Tralee also ferried people to the large passenger liners in Liverpool.’ Helen O’Carroll, Kerry County Museum
My father’s maternal name is O’Brien. According to spotty oral history, Patrick & Mary (Forham) O’Brien immigrated to USA in 1863. His son, John O’Brien immigrated in 1866 (age 19), with “other members” doing so in 1873. They settled in White Lake, Michigan and were in the lumber business.
John had a brother, Robert, who is/was my grandmother’s father. At least John and Robert finally settled in Chicago. John became a successful lumberman, and is mentioned in biographical history of Irish in Chicago.
I am searching for any information which will help me in my ancestry search.
Thanks,
John, maybe you would let me know what exactly you would like to find out. The baptismal record of Robert’s birth is listed as 6 May 1843. Kay (Caball)
I’m looking for Daniel O’Shea, Mary O’Connor(his sister), and Michael O’Connor who may have traveled together as passengers from Tralee. Mary and Michael were married February 1846 at Ventry, Dingle Ireland. They were in Mason county Kentucky by 1852. I’m assuming they left Ireland in the late 1840’s, but would like the verification through any passenger ship information found in regards to them.
I didn’t see this site before and sent you an email. Should I have posted here instead?? Look for the family of James and Margaret (O’Neil) Fitzgerald of Tralee, Ireland. I emailed more information.
Was James Fitzgerald a champion handballer
Hi Jean, A little late but I am just now seeing this. My James Fitzgerald was a car driver from Tralee.
Hi Jean, A little late but I am just now seeing this. My James Fitzgerald was a car driver from Tralee.
This is a very interesting list, my family oral history includes the reference to their pre-famine immigration from Kerry, their stated arrival in the US was June 1834…which most likely might mean they were on the Ship Totonto-or Toronto, perhaps, or possibly the Marie. Their names were John Ferriter & Honora Ferriter.
Hello,
My ancestors names were also John and Honora Ferritor.
I am looking for information on Cronin’s from Kerry Ireland. My ggf John Francis Cronin (B 1948 married Elizabeth Ann Kropp and the lived in Yonkers, NY. ) His parents were Patrick and Nora (either Flanigan or Joyce). He had other siblings (Patrick, Mary Ann, Michael and Elizabeth-that I know of). Also, his father Patrick had at least one brother Phillip that also came to the US and another brother John (who apparently did not come to the US however, was married to a Mary (Burke. Burkett, Lauder?) They had at least 8 children and Eugene was in the US Navy. A lot of my information is rather spotty and would be grateful to hear from anyone that could give me info on them especially when they lived in Ireland.
Marilyn, thank you for your query. Could I check with you that the information you have given is correct. Is it correct that John Francis Cronin was your Great Great Grandfather and he was born in 1948 (Nineteen forty eight)? I think that either the . date 1948 or Great Great Grandfather’ must be incorrect. If he was born in 1948 then the only way we can trace him is by going through the records in the Government Registration Office in Dublin. All births recorded since registration became compulsory in 1864 are online at http://www.IrishGenealogy.ie but due to data protection, as of now (2016) only only deaths up to 1965, Marriages to 1940 and births to 1916 are available.
Hi there,
Hi there,
I am looking for any record of Jean ( John ) Courtenay who sailed to New Orleans in the early 1800’s. He married a french lady and settled in the area. Through a recent DNA test it would appear that I am related to this line of my family. My family are from Killarney going back to 1800. I know that Jean arrived in New Orleans around 1820, he is recorded in the 1830 New Orleans census. Perhaps there was a direct route from Tralee to New Orleans at that time or he possibly sailed from Cork. I am trying to find out if it was possible he sailed from Ireland. I think he may have been French originally but I cant find any trace of his birthplace. Any help would be very much appreciated !
John, thank you for your enquiry. No ships left the Port of Tralee (Blennerville) for New Orleans. As far as I am aware int he early half of the 19th century, those who emigrated from Kerry to New Orleans would have made their way overland to the port of Cork (Not Cobh/Queenstown then) or to Dublin and on to Livwrpool where they would have sailed from.
‘Courtney’ was and is a very strong name in Killarney. If you have any informaiton on his parents or indeed his children’s names, you can let me know and I can have a look and see if we could identify him Kay
Hi,
I am researching my husband’s great, great grandmother. Her name was Elizabeth Johnson and where she was born is inTarbert, County Kerry in Glin Registration district. She was born on 10 Dec 1839 or 1840. I am unable to locate anything on her and do not know who her parents were. She came to america and I don’t know what year or on what ship. Any help is appreciated.
Debby, thank you for your enquiry. You would need some more information if you wanted to positively identify Elizabeth and her family. I don’t know how much you have reserched already, but you would need to know what her father’s name was and the main reseaarch at the start would be in the U.S. in the location to where she emigrated. If you could get some more facts, I am sure we can locate her records and those of her family. Could I recommend that you have a look at my blog which deals with this, and I can also refer you to my book Finding Your Ancestors in Kerry.
I look forward to hearing from you once you have extra bit of information. Kay
Thank you Kay. I will try to find a marriage certificate to find out her parents names.
I am seeking the family of Mary Dowd, my great grandmother who emigrated to Boston MA USA around 1850. Her 1861 marriage to William Kelly in Cambridge MA USA indicated she was from Co. Kerry, her parents being Timothy Dowd and Julia Cawaty. She was born between 1827 -1830 ‘near the Lakes of Kilarney’.
Mary Dowd Kelly died on December 12, 1900 in Dixon, IL USA.
Thank you for any possible information.
Eileen Higgins
Eileen, I have searched the available Kerry Baptismal records for Mary Dowd, daughter of Timothy Dowd but no success. Mary emigrated during the Great Famine and would probably have been about 20 years of age if she travelled by herself. If with her family, she may have been younger. Her mother’s name, as you probably guessed, is not correct. There is no such name in kerry as ‘Cawaty’. I think it may be Canty but can’t be certain. I have also checked for a marriage of Timothy Dowd and a Julia ? without success. there might be a couple of reasons for this. One reason would be that the records of the birth of Mary and the marriage of her parents may have taken place in a parish whose records are not available until a later date. The other possibility is that some of your details are not correct.
I would advise that you search through ALL U.S Federal Census records from the time that Mary arrived in the U.S., See who she was living with, can you identify any other Irish/Kerry people living with her? If you think of it, when Mary arrived in Boston c. 1850, she just didn’t show up on a whim or on spec. She would have known where she was going and why she was going. Who would have paid her fare? Did she have work lined up? Who arranged that work? These are the kind of questions you could be asking yourself and try to get answers. That is what will lead you to solve the mystery. Where did the phrase ‘Lakes of Killarney’ come from? All births/marriages in the Catholic Parish of Killarney are online and Mary or her family are not there. However she may have been born in a small outlying parish and as ‘Killarney’ was very well known, she might have said that was her home location.
I am seeking a listing of names emigrating on the Glenemara ship from Tralee to New Orleans on April 29, 1854 as I believe my Bridgit “Ellen” McKenna was on it. Surname could have been spelled Guina, Gna, Kenna, or McKenna. As she married in Macon, Georgia in 1860 I suspect she did not emigrate via New York.
Thank you
Sheila Falkowski
Sheila, I have tried the New Orleans Ships Lists for 1854 but the ship Glanamara is not included. As you know, we have the added problem of the ‘McKenna’, ‘Gna’ in our searches but I did find a Bridget McKenna who gave her age as 16 on the Theodore to New York from Tralee on 25th October 1854. I will email a snip to you as I cannot technically include it here. As you know, ages are never accurate so this Bridget could be anything from 15 to 25.
Kay
My grandfather Thomas Quirk left The Townland of Coomasaharn in1867. I would like to know the ship he sailed on.
trying to find info. on my great grandfather and grandfather who were from kerry county according to ancestry.com michael and michael J shea
I know they were in NY, USA in 1890″s
Edward, you would need some solid information to positively identify your grandfather and great grandfather. Most of this informaton, believe it or not, is first found in New York, where they first emigrated. You need to do a bit of work on U.S. Federal Census forms etc. I can send you a Query Form looking for details directly to your email address and if you can uneartch these details, then we have a good chance of finding the fimilies and where they lived.
Searching for origin of Johanna Kelly, born about 1834 to parents Maurice Kelly and Anne nee Butler.
Johanna arrived in Melbourne Australia we believe on ship “Epaminondas” which sailed from Plymouth on 31 January 1854, arriving Melbourne on 1June 1855. She carried a large compliment of young women aged between 19 and 24, who were bound for service in Melbourne. Johanna was from County Kerry, aged 19 and could not read or write. She went to work in Melbourne for a Mr Curran for a period of 3 months. Whether she stayed longer we don’t know, but the following year she was married in St Francis Catholic church, on 27th July 1856, to a man from Croatia, Fortunato Mavrovick, known as Peter Martin, who, on his marriage certificate gave his age as 28. His birth and baptism record show he was actually born on 26 June 1826, so he was really 31!! Johanna’s age is given as 20 and her father was a farmer.
They went on to have 4 children in Australia before following the gold-rush to NZ about 1870.
Johanna was my father’s grandmother. He recalled her talking with great fear about the workhouse, but whether she was ever in one we don’t know. He also recalled that her family had died in the famine, and that she had brothers, possibly named Daniel, Patrick and Tom.
We would like to know where Maurice Kelly had his farm, and whether or not any others of the family survived.
I look forward to your advice. Thankyou.
Bev Woolley
Bev, I would be very interested in solving this one myself! It might throw light on another problem I have. I have searched for baptism of Johanna with parents ‘Maurice Kelly’ and ‘Anne Butler’, but no record exists in Kerry of this baptism. There could be a number of reasons for that, the main one being that a birth/baptism say 1826-1834 might be too early for some existing parish records. As you probably know, if you read my blogs, no Irish person knew (or cared about) their exact date/year of birth in the 19th century and just guessed when asked for an age on immigration. You will notice then as years went on that this guessed date change from period to period as they had forgotten what they had originally stated.
The first question i would ask is ‘Who paid the fare’? You say that the ship carried a complement of young women bound for service in Melbourne. To the best of my knowledge there were no girls emigrated from Kerry Workhouses in 1853/54. You might know my book The Kerry Girls, Emigration and the Earl Grey Scheme where i have written about the 117 girls from Kerry who went to Australia under this scheme 1849/1850 but none went to Melbourne.
I would love to get more information on this – particularly the ship, or the names from the ship. Please email me caballkay@gmail.com
I’m wondering if any of the passenger lists from the ships from Kerry for 1847 or early 1848 are available?
Debby, some records survive, others don’t. Your best bet is to try through Ancestry.com (if you have a subscription) or google TheShipsList.com.
Thanks I’ve had no luck so far through those sources. I was hoping that maybe some copies were available in the Tralee area as I will be there for a couple days later this spring. Thanks.
Debby, the only place that there might be some of these records would be through the Local History Section of the County Library in Tralee. They definitely have an excellent book with again some records. It is called Blennerville Gateway to Tralee’s Past. Michael Lynch the County Archivist is very helpful.
Your web site is very helpful.
Your insight would be appreciated.
I am looking to confirm parents and place of birth for Johanna Glavin (born prior to 1838 somewhere near Tralee). Johanna emigrated to Canada in 1850 and had her first child in 1854 . Her youngest child, James, was born in 1870. On her death certificate, in 1920, he noted Johanna’s place of birth was “Kerry” and parents were “James Glavin” and “May O’Connor”.
Date of birth – I have “roving” dates of birth, so I’m guessing Johanna was at least 13 when she emigrated, and at least 16 when she had her first child – hence the date of birth guess at prior to 1838… but not too much prior to this date, as she died in 1920 – supposedly at age 80.
Parents – I have found a 1820 marriage record for James Glavin and Mary Connor in Tralee. I also found a 1832 baptism record for “Joanna O’Glaveen” of knockardrinagh/Tralee. Her parents are listed as “James O’Glaveen” and “Mary Connor”.
My question: based on your experience, do I have the correct parents for Johanna Glavin? Is O’Glaveen the same family as Glavin? Could “May O’Connor” actually have been “Mary Connor”?
I will reply to your personally and suggest that you place a video call to me. There are quite a lot of questions here that just need explanations rather than any great searches.
Hello,
I just discovered your site and am excited. Perhaps with your help (and after my years of research and many visits to Kerry) I might finally make progress on some missing links.
My g-g grandmother, Catherine McCrohan, was married to Thomas O’Connor of Glanmore (between Annascaul and Camp). They had (at least) 7 children. The 1st, Catherine, was born in Logher in 1829, the last, Daniel (my g grandfather), was born in Glanmore In 1846.
By 1863 Catherine’s husband had passed and 2 daughters had left for Massachusetts. That year Catherine and sons, Thomas (b. 1844) and Daniel joined them. Timothy (b. 1838) stayed and farmed. I have no information on what happened to son, John (b. 1831) or daughter Ellen (b. 1833).
I have not found what ships Catherine or her two sons traveled on or descendants of Timothy,.
Most importantly, though I have met John the last McCrohan remaining on the peninsula (still farming in Slieve East), I cannot find anything about m g-g grandmother Catherine (father Daniel, mother Catherine) or her husband Thomas before the birth of their 1st child in 1829. And, I constantly wonder why or who it was already in the Belchertown area of Massachusetts that brought Catherine and 4 of her children to this area (I grew up and live in a town over).
Thank you for any guidance you might provide.
Best,
Rita (O’Connor) Burke
Reposting above … Still searching for info on Catherine McCrohan and husband Thomas O’Connor living near Camp on the Dingle peninsula in the early 1800s.
Thank you,
Rita
Sean, I don’t know the details of Catherine McCrohan/Thomas O’Connor but I would say to you that there are very few records existing of baptisms or marriages in the early 1800s in the Corca Dhuibhne parishes. For instance in the Catholic Parish of Ballinvoher/Annascaul/Lack & Camp, the earliest baptisms/marriages records start in May 1829.
Hello Kay,
I am looking for information regarding my great grandfather Michael Reed born October 1, 1846 in Dingle. Oral history is that he immigrated at the age of 9 months with his mother Catharine and perhaps sisters. His Father William Reed did not immigrate with his family because he was in prison. I would love to find information validating this story and find out why William was in prison. Catherine eventually settled in Pascoag Rhode Island. Family history again says that she and William both died in 1863.
Thank you, Candice
On a quick search, there is no record of a Michael Reed (or any Reed/Reid) baptised in Dingle around 1846. I will send you separately a Query Form to get further details when i get make suggestions on solutions.
Hello Kay, I am hoping you can give me a lead. Maurice (approx 1930’s) and Thomas Griffin (1929) born in Inch County Kerry. Children of John Griffin and Mary Sheehan.
This is all we have found out . Have been able to trace their histories in Australia but not any immigration records. Maurice and Thomas lived in Melbourne Australia. Have spent 30 years searching.
Dot, this is a a difficult one as there is not a great deal of information and also because of data protection. We cannot access online births after 1917 (one hundred years). I will send you separately a Query form which has targeted questions that might might help in a positive identification.
How can I get ships immigrant lists for 1867 leaving Tralee. My grandfather Thomas Quirk left Coomasaharn in 1867 for USA.God Bless.
Thomas, it would be unusual to get lists of names for ships leaving Tralee c. 1867. There are a few ships whose lists have survived but only a few. You could have a look my list of ships Emigrant Ships from the Port of Tralee. Then try FindMyPast.ie or Ancestry.co.uk.(pay sites0 or the free FamilySearch.org
I have traced my family back to Blackpool a subtownland of Dromkeen. I wondered if anyone could comment on why a widow would take all her grown up children and move to London . What connection could be made between Blackpool and Bermondsey, London ? They arrived in London in the early to mid 1850’s.
Thank you
Hi. I have just found this site and it is extremely interesting…thank you.
I am trying to find what happened to my Great x 4 grandmother, Honora Lynch. She married Daniel Hurly on the
22/11/1822 in the Catholic church, Parish of Killarney.
Daniel moved to England with their children…I have an 1871 census record of him, but no mention of Honora. I presumed she died in Ireland.
Can anyone help me to find her death record ?
Thank you so much.
Marilyn Darné.
Marilyn, there are no death records in Kerry (or Ireland) until after 1864 when Civil Registration became compulsory. See all these details in my book Finding Your Ancestors in Kerry.
I am researching for a book I am writing about the well-known gunslingers in early days of Nevada’s history – around the 1860’s and 1870;s . Several of them were of Irish heritage. I am trying to trace the background of noted “Richard Moriarty” who appeared as a miner in Virginia City in 1868, where he had his first recorded gun-fight. Later he moved to Pioche, Nv. and was involved in a number of recorded gun-fights. He was killed in 1873. His obituary notes that he was born in Cahersiveen, Kerry County, Ireland in about 1844. At one point while running from the law, he changed his name to Morgan Courtney. I have searched through Ancestry.com and looked at parish records in Kerry….Can’t come up with any clue what-so-ever. Could he have been given up at birth? Also, checked Ellis Island records and came up with nothing. Not sure how he entered the U.S. or when. Any suggestions?
Karen, the information that yu have from his obit is probably correct. Its just that Church records in Caherciveen do not start for Baptisms until late 1845. There are lots of Moriartys listed in Caherciveen in Griffiths Valuation 1852 – it would be his father whose tenancy would be listed there at that time. If you could find what Richard called his eldest son the traditional naming pattern would indicate that would have been his father’s name. For instance there is a Maurice R. listed in Main St. Caherciveen.
Thanks Kay….After I posted, I found his baptism DEc. 1842. Parents are Michael Moriarty and Johanna Courtney Moriarty. However, in next census of 1851 he is not listed in the household? What are your thoughts on that? My next sighting is that he mustered in Aug. 5, 1864 with the Massachusetts infantry. I’m not finding him in 1850 or 1860 U.S. census. I would like to find immigration records. I’m thinking of starting with Irish ship in 1863 and working backwards. Do you agree with this plan?
You are giving such a good service! Kudos!
Karen, that is great that you have got that much information – baptism. Where did you find it? It cannot be Caherciveen then. The 1851 Census of Ireland has only fragments that survived so no surprise here. if he was born in 1842 then he would probably have emigrated when he was 18 or 20 1860-1862 so why not check the shipping records on Ancestry to see if his name might come up.
Thank you so much! For this list and https://mykerryancestors.com/cost-of-ship-fares-from-kerry-1828-1877/
I assume it is not exhaustive. Is it in date order?
I would love to find the ship that brought my great great GF and his family over. A family letter says that “he must been living in {his wife’s} area (Tralee) because she married him and evidently they left from her parents home as they went down to see them off on the boat”. They brought my ggf over with them. I have found marriage and birth records for them in irishgenealogy.ie James Sullivan and Sarah Leah(Leehy) 28 Feb 1862 and John J Sullivan 16 Dec 1862. All the other siblings were born after 1865 in Ontario, Canada according to 1881 Can Census (St Catherines) and 1870 USFed Census (Oswego, NY). Any insight would be wonderful.
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Kate, with the information you have, it would appear that they would have left from Blennerville (the Port of Tralee) for Canada. These ships were not primarily passenger ships – they were cargo ships returning with passengers and as such not all or even a lot of records have survived.
I am so excited to see this resource, because I am researching two elusive family lines of my husband’s. I know all about them in America, and even what county they came from, but I have not found them on any ship in 15 years of searching! Here’s hoping they left from Tralee!
Roger and Catherine KERRIGAN came from Sligo in 1835 with two young boys, and ended up in Verona and Bucksport, Maine, not too long after.
George Pierce NOONAN emigrated from Teermaclane, Co Clare (only 16 miles away from Tralee!) at the age of 12 to Canada (as per his obituary), without his parents or siblings, in 1849. I have never found him anywhere on a ship list, and and have begun to wonder if he stowed away.
Are you able to search for those names, going to a Canadian port, by chance?
Thank you very much!
Hi! I’m researching family history of a long line of O’Connors in Cork, originating in Kenmare with links to Tralee.
In family records is the poem of one John S O’Connor written from Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1870 as a Christmas letter to his mother, referencing Nedeen (with a strong nationalist content). Researching the contents of the poem I think he was the brother of my great, great grandfather, one Timothy Laurence O’Connor, originating in Kenmare according to census information. Timothy L’s father is recorded as a Michael O’Connor and I am trying to confirm whether Timothy and John S O’Connor were brothers, as I suspect. John S O’Connor was an interesting guy, a Phoenix Society prisoner in Tralee prison in 1858, and a correspondent for the Irishman, with a few interesting references about him and later activities found. The letter written by him to his mother from the US in 1870 was held and handed down through the family, but outside of this and reference in his letter to his brother Tim, and some other circumstantial references to Tim, and the links to Kenmare in other newspaper articles about him, I haven’t been able to document their relationship or his links to my family. Parish records show both John S O’Connor and a Timothy O’Connor baptised in Kenmare ( John S in 1839 and Timothy in 1842 – although one listed as Kenmare, one as another place within Kenmare) to a Michael Connor and Mary Sullivan, but I don’t know whether it is possible to find out any more detail about whether these are the same family or are my ancestors? There is a family legend that a distant grandfather died in the American Civil War, leaving two sons and his widow in Kerry, where they lived in a presbytery. This may be complete nonsense, but the only way this makes sense is if it is Michael O’Connor, father of Timothy L, who must have been quite old for the time at the time of the American civil was as Timothy L would have been about 17 in 1861, but again I can’t find anything else to support this.
It really appreciate any advice or suggestions!
There are a pile of Michael O’Connor/Connors in civil war solider registers so that doesn’t help!
Hello!
I have a question about name diminutives and derivations.
1) Was Bridget truly a diminutive of Elizabeth?
2) How interchangeable were Glaveen / Glavin / Gallivan / Sullivan?
I cannot find a Killarney RC marriage for John Connor and Mary Sullivan circa 1817 +
All the children’s records have Mary Sullivan as the mother.
There is a record however for John Connor and a Mary Glaveen in 1814. The witness is a Mary Ferris who is somehow related to John Connor’s mother Elizabeth Ferris. While somewhat reassuring, which line do I research?
Thank you in advance!
Nathalie, I can only reply to questions 1) and 2) as I don’t have enough details on your query here on the marriage of John Connor/Mary Sullivan.
1) Bridget is not a diminutive of Elizabeth. The only diminutive that I can think of for Elizabeth would be Bess, Liz or Lizzie.
2) In the 19th century spelling (in any country) was not standardised. Also in Ireland a proportion of people, particularly in Kerry spoke Irish as their first and sometimes only language. So Galvin, Gallivan and Glaveen might all be used for the same family. However, this was not the same as O’Sullivan. Sullivan/O’Sullivan was one of the most prolific names in Kerry and Cork. Because of that, each Sullivan family probably had a ‘nickname’ or branch name to denote their particular branch of Sullivans. Sometimes these branch names were used. See one of my blogs on this O’Sullivan Branch names.
I am trying to get some information regarding my Grandmother, Frances McEnery who was born in New Jersey around 1895. Her parents were Frances/Ellen McEnery (nee Connor) from Kilgarvan & John McEnery from Balymacelligott.
John & Ellen were married in Kenmare in 1894 and it seems they then went to New Jersey. We can’t get any information regarding our Grandmother Frances; no birth certificate etc and we can’t find any ships/passenger lists
with John & Ellen’s names on.
Frances was brought back to Oakpark in Tralee when she was approx 6-8 years old and then lived with her aunt and grandmother until she married my grandfather in 1915. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Our grandmother never went back to America; her Mum & Dad left her in Ireland.
I’m looking for my great grandfather, Dennis lynch (middle name Henry or O’Dell) born 1948 and went to US during the civil war. Supposedly he was one of numerous brothers (I do not know any names) that went together at the same time to the US. I think he was from county Kerry although I was always told county cork. I think he was baptized At St. Agathas in Glenflesk, county Kerry. Mother and dad were Mary Dinesen and Daniel (I think).
Trying to track the movement of my g-g-gfather Patrick McCarthy (b.1810) wife Julia Bridget Sullivan (b.1820-25) son Daniel Webster (b. 1847) and daughters Bridget (b. 1846) and Mary (b.1849). Patrick has stated he was from Kenmare. I have found baptismal records with very close dates for the children that all reference Derreenatlooig (or a close spelling of same). We have found notes of a late uncle that said they came to US. in 1854. (They were here for 1860 census). I believe they were preceded in their move by Patricks’ brother, Daniel F McCarthy; as his obit stated he arrived in 1850 (although it could have been 1850’s). Patrick may have also had a sister or sister-in-law named Agnes (b.1803) that lived in the same city in Indiana; plus Daniel W had a daughter named Mary Agnes. Names mentioned in the baptisms that could possibly be parents of the two are Felix and Lucy McCarthy, and Florence and Ellen Sullivan. There is also a Daniel Shea mentioned. I have found a ship manifest from 1855 that lists all the family members, PLUS a Margaret and Florina. They could be the victims of the high mortality rate for children of the time. Would they have likely left from the port at Tralee, or had it moved by then. Lastly, the name of course, could be McCarty. We have used both over the years.
Michael, thank you for your inquiry. As it is quite involved, I will send you a Query Form to fill in with the relevant details and your sources – where your current information comes from.
I would just add here – that Irish people in the 19th century had only one given (or first) name. They only took on the second (for example Julia Bridget Sullivan) on immigration – when they noticed that it was the norm in the new country.