The Ireland Finan Family
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bjcottingham
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The Ireland Finan Family
I am looking for the Michael Finan family that lived in Rocommon, Ireland. Michael was born in Rocommon about 1840, at 18 years of age traveled to Liverpool, England and immigrated to the US on the Albert Gallatin of New York on 07, July 1858. He later traveled to Kansas and married Mary Kelley. They had 6 children. He died in Blain Kansas in 1910. Anyone who has any info about the Ireland Family please contact me. Thank You.
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Finan researcher
To BJCottingham,
I have been researching Finan families of County Roscommon and
the U.S. for the past 17 years. I am not sure whether I can help
you, but will I give it a try.
You will have to bear with me though for the following reason:
I am retired and my wife and I live most of the year in Florida. We are
currently at our summer house in Delaware and I will not have access to
my records until we get back down there Oct 1 or thereabouts.
I communicated with a Thomas Finan of Topeka, Kansas for a
number of years until his death last year. His family had lived in Blaine
for some time and his grandfather, Michael Finan also, died in 1910.
If I remember correctly his father would have been born about 1849
and came to the U.S. sometime later than 1858.
I seem to remember Tom telling me that there was at least one other
Finan family in the Blaine area way back when. One thing that would
really settle whether your Michael Finan grandfather was the same as his
was the epitaph on his grandfather's tombstone. His said something
about being from Roscommon, County of Castlerea. I explained to
him that Castlerea was never a county and that many Irish just gave
the nearest sizeable town as their place of origin in Ireland.
I have been and am currently researching about five dozen Finan families
who lived in the vicinity of the Town of Castlerea during the nineteenth
century.
The records are spotty and leave large gaps. It is frustrating to not
be able to help someone when they have enough information that I should
be able to sort out which of these families they descend from. Many times
it comes down to an unexplained gap in the parish baptismal records
just at the time a birth would have occurred.
I will be happy to communicate with you about Co. Roscommon
Finans and maybe I can be of some help to you. Until the end of summer
my information will have to come from my memory though.
Tom Voyles
ntvoyles@netzero.net
I have been researching Finan families of County Roscommon and
the U.S. for the past 17 years. I am not sure whether I can help
you, but will I give it a try.
You will have to bear with me though for the following reason:
I am retired and my wife and I live most of the year in Florida. We are
currently at our summer house in Delaware and I will not have access to
my records until we get back down there Oct 1 or thereabouts.
I communicated with a Thomas Finan of Topeka, Kansas for a
number of years until his death last year. His family had lived in Blaine
for some time and his grandfather, Michael Finan also, died in 1910.
If I remember correctly his father would have been born about 1849
and came to the U.S. sometime later than 1858.
I seem to remember Tom telling me that there was at least one other
Finan family in the Blaine area way back when. One thing that would
really settle whether your Michael Finan grandfather was the same as his
was the epitaph on his grandfather's tombstone. His said something
about being from Roscommon, County of Castlerea. I explained to
him that Castlerea was never a county and that many Irish just gave
the nearest sizeable town as their place of origin in Ireland.
I have been and am currently researching about five dozen Finan families
who lived in the vicinity of the Town of Castlerea during the nineteenth
century.
The records are spotty and leave large gaps. It is frustrating to not
be able to help someone when they have enough information that I should
be able to sort out which of these families they descend from. Many times
it comes down to an unexplained gap in the parish baptismal records
just at the time a birth would have occurred.
I will be happy to communicate with you about Co. Roscommon
Finans and maybe I can be of some help to you. Until the end of summer
my information will have to come from my memory though.
Tom Voyles
ntvoyles@netzero.net