Shirley The naturalization index cards read as follows: C 100 Cobey Michael Common Pleas Court New York, New York County Date of Naturalization, Oct 25, 1865 Volume 303 Page- Copy of Record Number 97 Address of Naturalized Person 71 Mott Street N Y City Occupation - Age - Former Nationality English Port of Arrival - Birth Date or Bap. - Wittiness Michael Powell 60 Mulberry St. N Y C The one for Matthew the next day is almost identical except his occupation is Silversmith and the wittiness is Michael Cobey You should be able to get a copy of the certificate using the above info I doubt that this is the same Michael who came to the States in 1851 with his parents and is Irish Good luck in your research Betty On 1/13/2014 9:19 PM, Pamela Willcocks wrote: > Hello Shirley, > > It's a pity that you are basing your research for Michael COBEY born 1845 in > Plymouth on one piece of information. > > It's a far too common error as there are countless people with the same name > and the same birth year. The Michael who was naturalized as a U.S. citizen > in 1865 was Irish and the son of Matthew and Mary. > > The proof lies in this Michael's 1851 emigration (Liverpool-New York) where > he's clearly part of another family - all born in Ireland - who are also on > the U.S. 1860 census living in downtown New York. > > He is the only foreign-born Michael Cobey (born during the 1840's) who > appears on any U.S. census. He died 1879. > > Sorry you still have a mystery on your hands. He may have joined the Army > or Navy or emigrated to another part of the world. As for a possible return > to the UK, those on-line passenger lists don't begin until 1890 and he's not > on them. Prior to that, there's no way of telling. > > cheers, > pamela > > > -----Original Message----- > From: devon-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:devon-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Shirley Ireland > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:41 PM > To: devon@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DEV] MICHAEL RICHARD COBEY OF PLYMOUTH > > Hi Pamela, > > I am looking for Mr Micheal Richard Cobey who went to the USA in 1865 form > England, that is all I know and if he came back at a later date or married > and had a family, l still do not know, I'm still in the dark. > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >