Boston Pilot - Missing Friends - Devitt & McNamara, Miltown
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 1:59 pm
An important Genealogical Resource for Clare Ancestors
Boston College’s Irish Studies Program created a database based on The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot from 1831-1921. The project used an eight-volume set published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1989-1993.
http://infowanted.bc.edu/results/?county=Clare
This data base is easily searched and has 2,141 results for queries: County: CLARE and 91 results for queries: Barony: IBRICKAN (my ancestral barony).
It is important to look at the entry in the book because there is more information contained than on the Boston College site. I have been using the names and dates and searching on Ancestry to find the querie like I have attached to this entry.
An interesting example is of the Devitt family from Miltown Malbay, County Clare and the anxious mother includes her maiden name. I found the family in the Miltown Parish registers. Also listed is another child, Michael that did not made the baptismal registers and the fact that her sons landed in Quebec. I have found a number of families from the Miltown Malbay area landing in Quebec around and shortly after the famine time era.
Devitt & McNamara – Miltown Malbay
Patrick Devitt and Winnifred McNamara of Miltown Malbay, County Clare
Children’s Baptism Records
John Devitt 3 Jun 1833
Patrick Devitt 13 Mar 1836
Mary Devitt 10 Apr 1842
Patrick Devitt 9 Mar 1845
Mary Devitt 12 Feb 1848
Boston College’s Irish Studies Program created a database based on The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot from 1831-1921. The project used an eight-volume set published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1989-1993.
http://infowanted.bc.edu/results/?county=Clare
This data base is easily searched and has 2,141 results for queries: County: CLARE and 91 results for queries: Barony: IBRICKAN (my ancestral barony).
It is important to look at the entry in the book because there is more information contained than on the Boston College site. I have been using the names and dates and searching on Ancestry to find the querie like I have attached to this entry.
An interesting example is of the Devitt family from Miltown Malbay, County Clare and the anxious mother includes her maiden name. I found the family in the Miltown Parish registers. Also listed is another child, Michael that did not made the baptismal registers and the fact that her sons landed in Quebec. I have found a number of families from the Miltown Malbay area landing in Quebec around and shortly after the famine time era.
Devitt & McNamara – Miltown Malbay
Patrick Devitt and Winnifred McNamara of Miltown Malbay, County Clare
Children’s Baptism Records
John Devitt 3 Jun 1833
Patrick Devitt 13 Mar 1836
Mary Devitt 10 Apr 1842
Patrick Devitt 9 Mar 1845
Mary Devitt 12 Feb 1848