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Anne Kearney b 1865 Londonderry, (Curragh?),to NZ

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Driscoll

Driscoll Report 7 Feb 2017 16:18

Annie was the daughter of John Kearney & Mary Maguire (on marriage cert) Annie arrived in New Zealand somewhere around the 1879 as her death cert says 63 years in NZ when she died in 1942. She married John Daniel Crisp 25 Sept 1887, (cert says Blueskin) other records say Portt Chalmers. Trying to find which ship she travelled to NZ in, and more about her roots in Northern Ireland. She would have been Catholic. Curragh is probably an abbreviation and I have seen an 1865 birth registration in Strabane.
Annie was illiterate and her name was sometimes spelt McCurney, or McKearney or Kearney

GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 7 Feb 2017 23:40

Driscoll,
Is this the birth index that you saw?

Ann Kearny 1865 Strabane

This child was the daughter of Edward Kearny and Ellen Donnolly

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Use this link
Search Civil Records
Her birth could be listed under any variant in any area

I have looked at a number of possibles in various areas and so far, none were born to the parents mentioned.

Driscoll

Driscoll Report 8 Feb 2017 03:15

Thanks for that. Bother. Will be back to the drawing board.
All I know is she was Catholic, so maybe a baptism?

Potty

Potty Report 8 Feb 2017 12:18

This site has some info on Curragh, Londonderry:

https://www.townlands.ie/londonderry/loughinsholin/maghera/curragh/

Curragh (Currach) is a townland in Maghera Civil Parish, in Barony, in Co. Londonderry, Ireland.

GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 8 Feb 2017 18:07


Hopefully Curragh is mentioned somewhere on Annie's records which will narrow down the field

Many members of my own ancestral families emigrated from Ireland to various parts of the world.

Within the emigration/travel docs that I managed to find, so many of them stated that their place of birth was "Northern Ireland"

These emigrations took place in the mid 1800's, well before partition of 1922 when the current Northern Ireland didn't exist

Northern Ireland was simply the geographical term that they used for the North of Ireland
They all came from Donegal





Driscoll

Driscoll Report 8 Feb 2017 23:08

Yes, it does mention Curragh on her marriage cert. Thank you very much.