Hi David, I cannot find a birth record for Bartholomew in Cork in 1871, I have used variations on the name There is a Bartholomew Dublin 1877, Clare 1876, Kilkenny 1879, that is it for 1871 +- 10 years I wonder did he have any other first names? Brendan ----- "Jenny Stiles" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > I had a look in the BDM index for NSW & couldn't find any MESCALL at > all. > Did you find any people with the surname MESCALL in Australia? > > >From Jenny > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~becher/index.htm > > > >I have contacted all the state and national archives in Australia in > > hopes of finding a clue about an ancestor who supposedly emigrated > > from Cork to Australia in the 1890s. But the Australian archives > > haven't found any record of him. > > > > I'm fairly certain that he didn't emigrate to the USA - at least he > > doesn't show up in census or passenger list records. > > > > I would appreciate any suggestions about continuing the Australian > > search. > > > > The only information I have is: > > Name - Bartholomew Mescall > > DoB - March 1871 > > PoB - Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick, Co. Cork > > Parents - Denis Mescall & Mary Murphy > > > > Dave Collins > > Hudson, Mass., USA > > > ------------------------------- > 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