In a message dated 10/16/2006 12:05:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
romo9124(a)bellsouth.net writes:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiH.2ACIB/173.1.3.3.1.4
Greetings from Georgia;
Thanks for your note about the Carmody family and their migration from
Ireland.
I have not found that John or Margaret migrated from Ireland. But then
again, the Irish records are so miserably lacking it is difficult to know the
history.
What I know definitively is that James Carmody migrated to NY in approx.
1851 through Castle Garden and ended up in a suburb of NYC (Mt. Vernon), where I
was born. Family lore has it that James' father was John and his mother was
Margaret from Clare. I am in the maze now trying to find the connection to his
family.
One thing I have been trying to do is find the siblings of James. There had
to be anywhere from 6 to 12 of them based on the typical family size back
then. Once I get that information it will help break through the "brick wall."
Because I do not know if James was the oldest son of John it is hard to use
the naming conventions and therefore figure out his grandfather's name
(maternal or paternal).
Did any of your family come through NY in the 1850s? It is hard to imagine
the James Carmody migrated without his brother's and sister's or cousins. But
where are they?
Regards,
Tom Carmody