Kilbrin Emigrants





Information Wanted


From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a “Missing Friends” column with advertisements from people looking for “lost” friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 33,174 records is available at infowanted.bc.edu as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot.


A small number of these records relate to emigrants from Kilbrin parish, these are listed below.



Advertisement Date

07-11-1857


Missing Person's Information


Name: Edmond Barry

Gender: Male

Irish Address: Kilbrin, Kanturk, Co. Cork.

Arrival Date: 1847

Location After Arrival: Lexington, KY

Other Information: Last heard from 1855


Seeking Person's Information


Name: William Thompson

Relation to missing: Nephew

Gender: Male

Contact name: Maurice Kent

Contact Address: Hingham, MA


Advertisement Date

01-09-1858


Missing Person's Information


Name: Edmond Barry

Gender: Male

Irish Address: Kilbrin, Kanturk, Co. Cork.

Arrival Date: 1848

Location After Arrival Lexington, KY

Other Information: Son Of Wm Barry


Seeking Person's Information


Name: William Thompson

Relation to missing: Nephew

Gender: Male

Contact name: Maurice Kent

Contact Address: Hingham, MA


Advertisement Date

11-13-1852


Missing Person's Information


Name: Thomas Barry

Gender: Male

Irish Address: Kilbrin, Kanturk, Co. Cork.

Arrival Date: 1851

Location After Arrival: New York City


Seeking Person's Information


Name: John Barry

Relation to missing: Brother

Gender: Male

Contact name: J.W. Gillam

Contact Address Easton, PA


Advertisement Date

09-02-1848


Missing Person's Information


Name: Edmond Callaghan

Gender: Male

Irish Address: Dromineen, Kilbrin, Kanturk, Co. Cork.

Irish Occupation: Cooper

Arrival Date: November 1847

Location After Arrival: Broad St., Boston, MA


Seeking Person's Information


Name: Timothy Callaghan

Relation to missing: Brother

Gender: Male

Contact name: Maurice Lynch

Contact Address 105 Broad, Boston MA


Advertisement Date

24-11-1849


Missing Person's Information


Name: William Geary

Gender: Male

Irish Address: Ballyheen/Ballyhera, Kilbrin, Kanturk, Co. Cork.

Arrival Date: 1837

Location After Arrival: PA

US Occupation: Coalminer


Seeking Person's Information


Name: Thomas Roach

Gender Male

Contact name: Comm. Alien Munroe

Contact Address 59 Long Wh, Boston MA


Advertisement Date

16-12-1854


Missing Person's Information


Name: Garrett Lynehan

Gender: Male

Irish Address: Knockardfree, Kilbrin, Kanturk, Co. Cork.

Arrival Date: 1851/1852


Seeking Person's Information


Name: Honora Cahill

Relation to missing: Niece

Gender Female

Residence: 335 First Ave, NYC


Advertisement Date

05-09-1857


Missing Person's Information


Name: Jeremiah (Jr.) Moylan

Gender: Male

Irish Address: Kilbrin, Kanturk, Co. Cork.

Arrival Date: December 1849

1st Location After Arrival: New York City

2nd Location After Arrival: St. Joseph's Co., IN


Seeking Person's Information


Name: Richard Moylan

Gender Male

Residence: Union Co., Lewisburg, PA






Ellis Island


From 1892 to 1924, more than 22 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York. The ship companies that transported these passengers kept detailed passenger lists, called "ship manifests." These manifests have been transcribed into a vast electronic archive, which can be searched at www.ellisisland.org/.


Of the records available, just three entries have specified Kilbrin as the last place of residence. These entries are listed below:



First Name:

John

Last Name:

Baker

Ethnicity:

Ireland, Irish

Last Place of Residence:

Kilbrin

Date of Arrival:

Oct 25, 1905

Age at Arrival:

19y

Gender:

Male

Marital Status:

Single

Ship of Travel:

Oceanic

Port of Departure:

Queenstown

Manifest Line Number:

0009


First Name:

James

Last Name:

McAuliffe

Ethnicity:

British, Irish

Last Place of Residence:

Kilbrin, Ireland

Date of Arrival:

Mar 31, 1907

Age at Arrival:

28y

Gender:

Male

Marital Status:

Single

Ship of Travel:

Lucania

Port of Departure:

Queenstown

Manifest Line Number:

0002

First Name:

John

Last Name:

McAuliffe

Ethnicity:

British, Irish

Last Place of Residence:

Kilbrin, Ireland

Date of Arrival:

Mar 31, 1907

Age at Arrival:

28y

Gender:

Male

Marital Status:

Single

Ship of Travel:

Lucania

Port of Departure:

Queenstown

Manifest Line Number:

0003






The Ship's List


www.theshipslist.com has a large number of Ships Passenger Lists, for passengers emigrating to America, Canada, Australia and South Africa. These lists include two families from Kilbrin, which are detailed below.


The ship 'Albion' departed Cork May 11th 1825 and arrived at Quebec on June 15th 1825. The emigrants proceeded from Quebec to Montreal aboard the steam boat 'New Swiftsure' on June 17th 1825. Included in the ship's manifest were ten members of the Burgess family from Kilbrin, Cork. Names and ages are given as follows:


Daniel, 44 yrs

Alice, 44 yrs

William, 23 yrs

Emanuel, 22 yrs

Sabina, 21 yrs

Elizabeth, 20 yrs

Mary, Anne 19 yrs

Henry, 18 yrs

Daniel, 15 yrs

Avice/Alice, 10yrs


The occupation of Daniel (as head of the family) was given as that of a “reduced farmer”. Also included in the manifest were comments by the on-board surgeon in relation to the behaviour of the passengers on board. The comments range from compliments, "a very well behaved family", to a somewhat less complimentary nature, "(His) wife a lying, mischief-making woman". For Daniel Burgess, the surgeon wrote: “a plausible & I suspect a discerning character; William a good young man, a cooper by trade; Emanuel, suspicious.”





The ship 'John Barry' departed Cork 23rd May 1825 and arrived at Quebec 6th July 1825. The settlers then proceeded to Montreal aboard the steamboat New Swiftsure, on 8th July 1825. Included in the ship's manifest were seven members of the Casey family from Kilbrin, Cork. Names and ages are given as follows:


Thomas, 35 yrs

Johanna, 30 yrs

James, 11 yrs

Mary, 9 yrs

Timothy, 7 yrs

John, 5 yrs

Johanna, 1 yrs


The occupation of Thomas (as head of the family) was given as that of a “farmer”. Again the on-board surgeon has included comments in the manifest in relation to the behaviour of the passengers. For the Casey family, he wrote: “a very good family, behaved well on passage”



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