Hi I've been doing a little project of my own collating Clare people from shipping lists on people's arrival in Australia where it indicated they were from Clare. The record information varies. In the case of the ship my Galvins from Clare arrived on in 1849, it includes details of their parents names, whether they were alive or not at the time the ship departed, where they were living (which doesn't work for me because I think my Galvin's Gaelic accent must have been so strong the clerk made up a name (Kileath) which doesn't exist as far as I can find in Clare). The Galvin shipping information also recorded the the emigrant's religion, whether they could read or write and their occupations. Other shipiing records may not have this level of information. Some can then be linked to further records e.g. bounty emigrant records sometimes with a good deal of extra information. I have also being sourcing information from the National Library of Australia newspaper digitisation project where I've looked primarily at family notice sections of the newspapers for the phrase "late of Clare" so I get births, deaths and marriages mainly but it also includes probate, intestacy and insolvency notices. The time range of these records varies from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s. The marriage notices may include the name of the father and possibly the mother and very occasionally an address in Ireland. The death/funeral notices will sometimes include the age of the person. Where this has occurred I have a column with the possible year of birth of the person. I now have close to 300 names and thought I should make them available if people are interested. They are currently on a couple of Excel spreadsheets so I could sort them. The information can be used to follow up on church records, do further searches of BDM records in Australia or provide details for probate or insolvency records to be searched for further information. Can the administrators let me know whether they would be interested in getting copies of this information to include on the various Rootsweb information you manage. I am also doing this for Dublin and currently have a couple of hundred records. I expect to do it for Cavan as well. Finally, sometimes there are occasionally reports of people who died outside Australia but who had relatives in Clare and Australia. I will also be offering these to the Clare library as I have done some keying for their records also. Anne

I am most interested. My great grandfather's brother James Arthur left the US and went to Australia. The only information we have is that when his mother's will was probated in 1884 no one knew where he was in Australia. This man is indeed a mystery in a family full of stories and tales. Diane Arthur Kennedy Beannachtashy; na Féile Pádraig -----Original Message----- From: Perplexed1 <[email protected]> To: irl-clare-projects <[email protected]>; irl-clare <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 1:39 pm Subject: [IRL-CLARE] 300 + Records of Clare people in Australia (mostly) Hi I've been doing a little project of my own collating Clare people from shipping lists on people's arrival in Australia where it indicated they were from Clare. The record information varies. In the case of the ship my Galvins from Clare arrived on in 1849, it includes details of their parents names, whether they were alive or not at the time the ship departed, where they were living (which doesn't work for me because I think my Galvin's Gaelic accent must have been so strong the clerk made up a name (Kileath) which doesn't exist as far as I can find in Clare). The Galvin shipping information also recorded the the emigrant's religion, whether they could read or write and their occupations. Other shipiing records may not have this level of information. Some can then be linked to further records e.g. bounty emigrant records sometimes with a good deal of extra information. I have also being sourcing information from the National Library of Australia newspaper digitisation project where I've looked primarily at family notice sections of the newspapers for the phrase "late of Clare" so I get births, deaths and marriages mainly but it also includes probate, intestacy and insolvency notices. The time range of these records varies from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s. The marriage notices may include the name of the father and possibly the mother and very occasionally an address in Ireland. The death/funeral notices will sometimes include the age of the person. Where this has occurred I have a column with the possible year of birth of the person. I now have close to 300 names and thought I should make them available if people are interested. They are currently on a couple of Excel spreadsheets so I could sort them. The information can be used to follow up on church records, do further searches of BDM records in Australia or provide details for probate or insolvency records to be searched for further information. Can the administrators let me know whether they would be interested in getting copies of this information to include on the various Rootsweb information you manage. I am also doing this for Dublin and currently have a couple of hundred records. I expect to do it for Cavan as well. Finally, sometimes there are occasionally reports of people who died outside Australia but who had relatives in Clare and Australia. I will also be offering these to the Clare library as I have done some keying for their records also. Anne ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Diane, If he came via USA, I'm not sure if he'd show up as an immigrant from Clare. Perhaps it might be in some secondary record. But more importantly, what steps have you taken to try to find him in Australia?. It shouldn't be too hard. For example there are 48 possible deaths for James Arthur in NSW. So we need age and parent names. Of course, he could have gone to one of the other five states. If you go to www.coraweb.com.au you will find an abundance of Australian websites covering all topics from BMD to Immigration. But remember you have to look state by state. If you have an Ancestry world subscription, they have created databases that try to combine all Australian BDM and Immigration records into single searches. It's not perfect, but it may give some clues. Then you can go back to the original state records for more detail. Peter in Sydney

the IGP would be a good place to start. They allow you to put all sort of records on there. contact Christina Finn Hunt who is the administrator of this list. she will advise you Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perplexed1" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:38 PM Subject: [IRL-CLARE] 300 + Records of Clare people in Australia (mostly) > Hi > > I've been doing a little project of my own collating Clare people from > shipping lists on people's arrival in Australia where it indicated they > were from Clare. The record information varies. In the case of the ship > my Galvins from Clare arrived on in 1849, it includes details of their > parents names, whether they were alive or not at the time the ship > departed, where they were living (which doesn't work for me because I > think my Galvin's Gaelic accent must have been so strong the clerk made up > a name (Kileath) which doesn't exist as far as I can find in Clare). The > Galvin shipping information also recorded the the emigrant's religion, > whether they could read or write and their occupations. Other shipiing > records may not have this level of information. Some can then be linked > to further records e.g. bounty emigrant records sometimes with a good deal > of extra information. > > I have also being sourcing information from the National Library of > Australia newspaper digitisation project where I've looked primarily at > family notice sections of the newspapers for the phrase "late of Clare" so > I get births, deaths and marriages mainly but it also includes probate, > intestacy and insolvency notices. The time range of these records varies > from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s. > > The marriage notices may include the name of the father and possibly the > mother and very occasionally an address in Ireland. The death/funeral > notices will sometimes include the age of the person. Where this has > occurred I have a column with the possible year of birth of the person. > > I now have close to 300 names and thought I should make them available if > people are interested. They are currently on a couple of Excel > spreadsheets so I could sort them. > > The information can be used to follow up on church records, do further > searches of BDM records in Australia or provide details for probate or > insolvency records to be searched for further information. > > Can the administrators let me know whether they would be interested in > getting copies of this information to include on the various Rootsweb > information you manage. > > I am also doing this for Dublin and currently have a couple of hundred > records. I expect to do it for Cavan as well. > > Finally, sometimes there are occasionally reports of people who died > outside Australia but who had relatives in Clare and Australia. > > I will also be offering these to the Clare library as I have done some > keying for their records also. > > Anne > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >