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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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”