http://www.ingeneas.com/ingeneas/index.html Try this search engine by inserting your surname Kirby...look what I found. Could this be your lady? Perhaps if you know the younger brother's name, you can find him as well. Rhonda Houston Bridget Kirby Age: 18 Year: 1851 Price: $6.50US; $8.00Cdn. Description: 1851 Census of WELLINGTON COUNTY, Ontario - Typical records in this document contain the following information: name; age; sex; place of birth; occupation; marital status; and religion. NOTE: When a transcript of an individual is ordered, summary data consisting of names and ages of all others in the household will also be provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Bridget KIRBY Age: Not available Year: 1872 Price: $6.50US; $8.00Cdn. Description: Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada (1869-1873) - HASTINGS COUNTY - Typical records in this document contain: name of groom and bride, their age, religion, residence, and place of birth, religious denomination, date and place of marriage, names of parents, names of witnesses; occupation of the groom, and may also include residence of witnesses. (NOTE: each party is indexed separately in the database, therefore, one need only order one of the spouses to receive full information on both). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Patrick Kirby Age: 40 Year: 1851 Price: $6.50US; $8.00Cdn. Description: 1851 Census of WELLINGTON COUNTY, Ontario - Typical records in this document contain the following information: name; age; sex; place of birth; occupation; marital status; and religion. NOTE: When a transcript of an individual is ordered, summary data consisting of names and ages of all others in the household will also be provided ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- WHO COULD THIS BE??????????? Patrick Kirby Age: 85 Year: 1901 Price: $7.15US; $8.79Cdn. Description: 1901 census of Ontario: DUNDAS County (only those giving a year of immigration to Canada and who were born outside of Canada are included). Typical records in this document contain the following information: name; relationship to head of household; marital status; exact birthdate; birthplace; year of immigration; origins; religion; occupation; and, a summary (names and age) of everyone listed in the household -----Original Message----- From: TheKirbyTree@aol.com [mailto:TheKirbyTree@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 3:28 PM To: CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CanShipsPre1865] Re: CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865-D Digest V02 #30 Ireland via Canada I too am looking for info on Irish that "came through Canada" My Kirby's came this way. My great great grandfather died at sea, and his wife and children walked to Boston, MA. from Canada. I do not know the year. All I know is that my great grandfather and great grandmother had their first child in 1864 in Clinton, MA The story about the walk to Boston was passed down in the family. It would have happened sometime between 1845-1864. However since my great grandfather was born in 1841 and he was a child when he came the date would probably be in the late 1840s or early 1850s. I have not located any of my family on a census or any document before 1865 and that was the MA state census. My feeling is that it was in the early 1850s. My great great grandparents were Patrick Kirby and Bridget O'Malley Kirby from County Mayo, Ireland. Patrick died at sea. It was Bridget who made the walk to Boston, where, according to family lore she had to take up the world's oldest profession for a while to feed her kids. Apparently Bridget's younger brother came too. He supposingly took up watch on the stairs to make sure the men didn't get away without paying. Good Catholics that my Dad's family was, I can not imagine them making up the story, so I assume that it is true. ==== CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865 Mailing List ==== Search the Archives for this list at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/lists/maillists.shtml ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237