On Oct. 25, 2008 a message was posted by Riobard showing they above mentioned marriages. I was wondering what time period these covered. My line of interest is in the O'Driscoll or Driscolls This is my husband's maternal line. Driscolls of PEI, Canada. The earliest mention we find is John Driscoll dying in 1832 by falling off a ships mast while the ship was harboured in the Hillsborough River in Charlottetown. No earlier mention of him or his family prior to that. My husaband had a cousin who was a Professor of History at UPEI, Fred Driscoll who was doing research, and he only got as far as saying they were from the Baltimore area of Cork, never verified. It was like a stork dropped him onto PEI. Cannot find any reference to him emigrating. Thought maybe he was part of the Peterborough crowd of 1823, but unable to prove. There was an inquest into to his death by the court system, am in the process of writing to the courts in PEI to try and obtain the full record, maybe showing his place of origin or immigration and if they mentioned which children came from Ireland with him and his wife Margaret (maiden name unknown). Although according to the 1841 (childrens names not listd only age brackets) and how many came from Ireland. It state one male child under 16 and 3 females 16-45, and 2 females under age 16. That would mean the widow Margaret Driscoll and two of her daughters these three also listed as paying there own passage from Ireland. Also listed two daughters born on the Island, again cannot find any record of their birth in the Charlottetown area. I have one lead that I am following in the Tignish area. All of the subsequent generations of the son John Driscoll and his children I have. Have no information on his sisters, only guesses. I do not know John Sr.'s place of birth guestimating from the death record of 1832 that he was born around 1797. Would anyone know of any other ships from Cork to Canada around 1819 though 1830 that would actually give a list of passengers and maybe their place of origin. Any help apprecited. By the way before posted this query I read all of the Beara archives going back to the beginning in trying to a connection to O'Driscoll's/Driscoll's to PEI. Only found one but figured that it was to old to try the email posted, so hoping that person is still online and reading these posts. I ordered a DNA test for a direct male descendant on PEI to take, waiting on the results, hopefully within 3-4 weeks more. With best regards Catherine Byrne Fitzgerald Weymouth, MA USA

Dear Catherine, There were Driscolls/O'Driscolls all over the Beara Peninsula by the 1820s, but this John you mention would have been born before marriage records began here. I would be inclined to feel that he was originally from around the Baltimore area where people were involved very much in the sea trade, and where the family name was very popular. Regards, Riobard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Catherine T. Fitzgerald" <CTFitzgerald@comcast.net> To: <BEARA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [BEARA] Adrigole Parish marreid couples: "Driscolls orO'Driscolls > On Oct. 25, 2008 a message was posted by Riobard showing they above > mentioned marriages. I was wondering what time period these covered. > > My line of interest is in the O'Driscoll or Driscolls > > This is my husband's maternal line. Driscolls of PEI, Canada. > > The earliest mention we find is John Driscoll dying in 1832 by falling off > a ships mast while the ship was harboured in the Hillsborough River in > Charlottetown. No earlier mention of him or his family prior to that. My > husaband had a cousin who was a Professor of History at UPEI, Fred > Driscoll who was doing research, and he only got as far as saying they > were from the Baltimore area of Cork, never verified. It was like a stork > dropped him onto PEI. Cannot find any reference to him emigrating. Thought > maybe he was part of the Peterborough crowd of 1823, but unable to prove. > > There was an inquest into to his death by the court system, am in the > process of writing to the courts in PEI to try and obtain the full record, > maybe showing his place of origin or immigration and if they mentioned > which children came from Ireland with him and his wife Margaret (maiden > name unknown). > Although according to the 1841 (childrens names not listd only age > brackets) and how many came from Ireland. It state one male child under 16 > and 3 females 16-45, and 2 females under age 16. That would mean the widow > Margaret Driscoll and two of her daughters these three also listed as > paying there own passage from Ireland. Also listed two daughters born on > the Island, again cannot find any record of their birth in the > Charlottetown area. I have one lead that I am following in the Tignish > area. All of the subsequent generations of the son John Driscoll and his > children I have. Have no information on his sisters, only guesses. I do > not know John Sr.'s place of birth guestimating from the death record of > 1832 that he was born around 1797. > Would anyone know of any other ships from Cork to Canada around 1819 > though 1830 that would actually give a list of passengers and maybe their > place of origin. > > Any help apprecited. > > By the way before posted this query I read all of the Beara archives going > back to the beginning in trying to a connection to O'Driscoll's/Driscoll's > to PEI. Only found one but figured that it was to old to try the email > posted, so hoping that person is still online and reading these posts. > > I ordered a DNA test for a direct male descendant on PEI to take, waiting > on the results, hopefully within 3-4 weeks more. > > With best regards > Catherine Byrne Fitzgerald > Weymouth, MA USA > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1950 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message