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1841 shipwreck involving Clare emigrants out of Limerick

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:22 am
by smcarberry
Quebec Gazette #5726 24/05/1841 Page 2. Col. 4C
transcribed at:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/ ... strel.html

"The Minstrel left Limerick, Ireland, on the 21st April last, for Quebec with one hundred and forty-one passengers: emigrants intending to settle in Canada.
....
We were, this morning, kindly favoured by A.C. Buchanan, Esq. emigrant agent at Quebec, with the following complete list of the passengers and crew of the Minstrel:

James Stranghnessy,
Catherine Stranghnessy,
N. Moriarty,
Mary Moriarty, all of the County of Clare

Wm. Pendergast,
V. Pendergast,
Mary Pendergast,
Tom Pendergast,
Thos. Flaherty,
Biddy Flaherty, (saved)
Denis Flaherty, (saved)
Mary Carney,
Michael Cullinein,
Ellen Cullinein,
Tom. Bridgman,
Bridget McNamara,
Thos Kennedy,
R. Kennedy,
Thos. Amhill,
Michael Casey,
Cath. Casey,
Margaret Casey,
Mary Dwyer, all of the county of Clare.

John Ryan,
Michael Ryan, all of Newmarket.

Pat. Carney,
Mary Carney,
James Carney,
Pat Carney,
Bridget Carney,
James Carney,
Ann Carney,
Peggy Dwyer,
Rhody Ringrose,
Michael Ringrose,
Honora Ringrose, (saved)
Will. Ryan James Carney,
Bridget Carney,
Peggy Carney,
Tom. Carney,
Patty Carney,
Mary Maddan,
John Meara,
John Rourke,
Thady Rourke,
Judy Rourke,
Issac Bethel,
Catherine Bethel, all of Trook. [sic, likely Trugh]

1841 shipwreck involving Clare emigrants out of Limerick

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:33 am
by Paddy Casey
Thanks for this, Sharon. A number of Caseys there and, interestingly, the names of some of the neighbours of the Caseys of Moyrhee/Shanballysallagh in Clare. As we all know, neighbours often travelled in groups from the locality when the emigrated.

Tantalising !

Paddy

Re: 1841 shipwreck involving Clare emigrants out of Limerick

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:09 pm
by matthewmacnamara
Dear Sharon,

Would you be able to tell me how I could access the US Navy/ Army records, first world war service,
of my grand uncle William Ringrose who emigrated from Meelick county Clare?

Re: 1841 shipwreck involving Clare emigrants out of Limerick

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:16 am
by smcarberry
Matthew, I am asking for additional questions on the topic of American military service to be directed to me by "private message" (see the upper right corner of your computer screen, under the large whtle search box set into the Library Forum blue banner).

Although I was able to find the birth record of your William RIngrose, plus details on his parents in the Meelick area, I am far more equipped to go back into Irish records on that lineage (and I see that they indeed were longtime residents there). As for American records. I readily located men of approximately the right age and name for the target William, but not any reference to a military record readily identifiable for your William, nor an American residence for him at any time. I don't have a subscription to the private website Fold3 developed for American military records (the one under contract with the U.S. government to digitize its military records), so I can't be sure of what it may offer. However, while World War One draft cards are readily available for free, the actual service records, if they exist, must be ordered the old-fashioned way, by sending in an order form (and fee) to a specific federal repository in St. Louis, Missouri. Service records for about 70% of Army soldiers of that era are not available due to a 1973 fire, described further here (scroll down to "Affected Records"):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... enter_fire

Here is what the federal government says on this subject, including the way to order a record (and find out if it does still exist):
https://www.archives.gov/research/order ... cords#nprc