Leitrim-Roscommon

Hi- I just added this information to the surname list. I'm entering it here in hopes someone will see it & come up with a connection. Thanks for looking: County: Roscommon Civil Parish: Elphin Townland: ? Related Surname Info: Only known reference is a letter written to the bishop of Elphin by A...

County: Roscommon Civil Parish: Elphin Townland: ? Related Surname Info: Only known reference is a letter written to the bishop of Elphin by American Civil War veteran James Carney in 1912-13. Response from Fr. MacDonald (4/13) in Elphin finds no record of birth or baptism. James and his American im...

Hi Ann- If I understand your post, you have good information about Ireland but lack information after the emigration. For what it's worth, our search for ancestors has started from the known locally and worked backwards. We have little to go by that connects us to Ireland more than generally. Birth ...

Hi- This is my first post here so pardon the rookie. My g-g-grandfather, James Carney, was a soldier in the American Civil War (43d NYSVI). In his pension records is correspondence with "the bishop of Elphin" [/quote](Fr. McDonald) regarding his birth records, which Fr. McD. was unable to ...