Thanks to all who responded with helpful suggestions! We had a basic search done through East and West Galway, with no conclusive results, I have continued to look in US records, but information on these families is limited. Seems like every where they lived, records were destroyed by fire or flood! From the information we have found, William Broderick arrived in US abt. 1844 (still looking for him on the shipping lists). We found Bridget (Wall) Broderick arriving in 1847, with daughters Mary and Margaret. Would searching Griffiths help since they left Ireland in the 1840's? Thanks again for your time, Donna Kinney -------------- Original message -------------- > Re: Brodericks/Wall/Coyne/Moran > > You seem to have so much information that it's surprising you don't have a > more precise location in Galway. > If you haven't already done so,you should conduct a search in Griffiths . > You are looking for those names to occur in close proximity,so you need > townland maps to work from,as well as a general Galway civil parish map. > > > The easiest way is to log on to _www.otherdays_ (http://www.otherdays) .com > and pay for a 72 hour search for about 8 euro/dollars. Best bargain around! > Run all four SURNAMES through a Galway search. > Don't bother too much with first names,as you don't know which one would be > listed as head of household. > > Print off the list of locations for each surname.Then you can start to cross > check. > Most couples married within a 3 mile radius.This would frequently cross a > parish boundary,which is why a map is so important. > You have 4 known surnames,which should narrow things considerably. > > For example- I took the first parish,Abbeygormacan,and found 3 of the 4 > names there. > Do this with each parish. > Hopefully ,at least one parish will have all 4 names within it.They don't > necessarily have to be in the same townland at this point. > > If you don't find a parish with all 4 names, then go back to the ones with 3 > matches,and check if the fourth name occurs in a neighbouring parish. > > At the end of the exercise,you should have a list of the most likely > parishes. > > Parish records in Galway are poor,so don't expect to find the > births/marriages in the parish records.However,once you have a likely > location,you have > something to base your further searches on. > Cathy > > > ==== IRL-GALWAY Mailing List ==== > Have you traveled or are you planning to travel to Ireland??? > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Eire_Travel/ > To unsub or change your Irl-Galway mailing mode: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-GALWAY.html > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Donna, Griffiths Valuation was done in Galway in 1855. Depending on William Broderick's age when he arrived in the US in 1844, his father might be included in Griffiths if he was still alive and still in Galway when it was done. You'd need to find out what William's father's name was. Eilis O'Hara --- twkinney@comcast.net wrote: > Thanks to all who responded with helpful > suggestions! We had a basic search done through > East and West Galway, with no conclusive results, I > have continued to look in US records, but > information on these families is limited. Seems > like every where they lived, records were destroyed > by fire or flood! From the information we have > found, William Broderick arrived in US abt. 1844 > (still looking for him on the shipping lists). We > found Bridget (Wall) Broderick arriving in 1847, > with daughters Mary and Margaret. Would searching > Griffiths help since they left Ireland in the > 1840's? > Thanks again for your time, > Donna Kinney > > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > > Re: Brodericks/Wall/Coyne/Moran > > > > You seem to have so much information that it's > surprising you don't have a > > more precise location in Galway. > > If you haven't already done so,you should conduct > a search in Griffiths . > > You are looking for those names to occur in close > proximity,so you need > > townland maps to work from,as well as a general > Galway civil parish map. > > > > > > The easiest way is to log on to _www.otherdays_ > (http://www.otherdays) .com > > and pay for a 72 hour search for about 8 > euro/dollars. Best bargain around! > > Run all four SURNAMES through a Galway search. > > Don't bother too much with first names,as you > don't know which one would be > > listed as head of household. > > > > Print off the list of locations for each > surname.Then you can start to cross > > check. > > Most couples married within a 3 mile radius.This > would frequently cross a > > parish boundary,which is why a map is so > important. > > You have 4 known surnames,which should narrow > things considerably. > > > > For example- I took the first > parish,Abbeygormacan,and found 3 of the 4 > > names there. > > Do this with each parish. > > Hopefully ,at least one parish will have all 4 > names within it.They don't > > necessarily have to be in the same townland at > this point. > > > > If you don't find a parish with all 4 names, then > go back to the ones with 3 > > matches,and check if the fourth name occurs in a > neighbouring parish. > > > > At the end of the exercise,you should have a list > of the most likely > > parishes. > > > > Parish records in Galway are poor,so don't expect > to find the > > births/marriages in the parish > records.However,once you have a likely > > location,you have > > something to base your further searches on. > > Cathy > > > > > > ==== IRL-GALWAY Mailing List ==== > > Have you traveled or are you planning to travel to > Ireland??? > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Eire_Travel/ > > To unsub or change your Irl-Galway mailing mode: > > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-GALWAY.html > > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including > the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== IRL-GALWAY Mailing List ==== > Join an Ireland list that discusses Irish genealogy, > history, and culture. > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/IRELAND.html > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the > new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html