Leitrim-Roscommon

I don't know anything about White Cargo, but there is To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland by Sean O'Callaghan re the "incidents" between 1656 and 1659 where over 50,0000 Irish men, women and children were basically kidnapped and transported to Barbados and Virginia. As I u...

Below is a link to an article from Irish Central about an archeology dig that is being done on an Irish immigrant village in Baltimore County, Maryland, circa 1850. Large numbers of the immigrants came from Ballykilcline, Co. Roscommon. http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Irish-immigrant-village-unear...

While I have found the above naming pattern to be wide spread and consistent, I have also found the following on numerous occasions. At times the first child is a female and named after the father's mother. When the second child is a boy, it is named after the mother's father - and so on. It seems a...

The Index for Marriage Records for the R.C. Parish of Mohill shows a John Reynolds marrying Kate Doonan. The page number for the actual record is hard to read. It might be page 72, which would be c. 1857-1858. You would have to look at the film for the actual record - FHL#1279224. (You might also ch...

Are you familiar with the publication "The Reynolds letters - an Irish emigrant family in late Victorian Manchester?" There are similarities to your family - Lawrence who went to Chicago from Leitrim (apparently Mohill), whose brother and wife went to Manchester. The letters are between th...

Michael Moran, born Drumcollagan, Mohill, Leitrim, died Ireland; children Bartly, Bridget Kate, Elizabeth, Michael. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of family.