The only record that I have found so far naming a birthplace for any one of my ancestors was the NY Emigrant Savings Bank on Ancestry.com. It named Co. Galway, included my gggrandparents' names and stated that my gggrandfather, Martin Reynolds, was deceased. That was a new piece of information for us. ( We had gone to Ireland and already discovered that the family had come from Co. Galway as we were able to find birth records for our grandfather's brothers who were born well after civil registration began.) Otherwise, all B-M-D certs that we have just say Ireland; no county name,no townland. Sent from my iPod

I hit pay dirt in the cemetery (if you will pardon the pun). I found the Irish county AND the town on the marker! This was in Ossining, NY. Donna

You know, I found a record showing "Parish of Legan, County Longford, Ireland" is on the gravestone for my gggrandfather James KEENAN in Mt. Ida Cemetery, Pawling Avenue,Troy. Ed Broecker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna K. Vaughn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:30 AM Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Records that state origin in Ireland >I hit pay dirt in the cemetery (if you will pardon the pun). I found the > Irish county AND the town on the marker! This was in Ossining, NY. > > Donna > > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Time for Society Members to pay up their **2012 Dues**. See the Website > for details: > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

In my experience, it is not rare to find that an Irish immigrant's gravestone may list his or her home place in Ireland. I can't say that it's common, but it's not rare. When researching immigrants from Ballykilcline and Kilglass Parish to Rutland, VT, I found that many naturalization filings before 1855 listed parish or townland but filings after the mid-1850s usually named only Ireland. The most unusual place where I found such a record was in court papers following the death of my ggrandfather's cousin in Troy. The papers concerned the cousin's estate and identified his father and homeplace in County Kildare -- Edward Dunn of Mylerstown. Another unusual place where such information was recorded was in a local newspaper story in Connecticut that reported on the 50th wedding anniversary celebration of my immigrant great great grandparents. John Riley was from Roscommon and Catherine McNally was from Monaghan. But the 1903 story told us that she came from the townland of Latton, which is in Aughnamullen West parish. I recently found her father's gravestone in West Warwick, RI, and it says that he came from the parish of Ematris, which is a hop and a skip from Latton. He died in 1849. While reading a 2008 book of Rhode Island history yesterday, I believe I found the McNallys' route to Rhode Island. In "Irish Titan, Irish Toilers," author Scott Molloy reports that "Local manufacturers here recruited a group of skilled Irish bleachers from Ballybay, County Monaghan, for steady jobs in the state's cotton industry just as flax and linen employment flagged in Ulster and became industrialized outside of County Monaghan." Ballybay is very close to Latton and I suspect that Owen McNally was part of a chain migration from that part of Monaghan that must have developed in the wake of that recruitment. Molloy says these immigrants settled in West Warwick and founded St. Mary's Church there, whose church building is now the oldest Catholic church in the state. My Owen McNally is buried in St. Mary's graveyard. Mary Lee Dunn -----Original Message----- From: Donna K. Vaughn <[email protected]> To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 6:30 am Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Records that state origin in Ireland I hit pay dirt in the cemetery (if you will pardon the pun). I found the Irish county AND the town on the marker! This was in Ossining, NY. Donna ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== Time for Society Members to pay up their **2012 Dues**. See the Website for details: Troy Irish Genealogy Society www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. ------------------------------- 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