Genealogy Chat

Hello everyone, Michael Foster here.

I'm totally new to this and of course quite green and learning all the time.

My great-great grandparents came from Dublin. They were both born c.1851 and were married young and I imagine emmigrated shortly afterwards because their kids were all born in their new home of Manchester.

I'm presuming that they had to fill in the appropriate forms or that they were at least logged somewhere as immigrants.

Where do I go to in order to establish the facts?

Hoping someone can give me some pointers.

Cheers

Michael

hi there,
A lot of families left Ireland during the potoatoe famine and came either across to england or to America. Some of my irish ancestors came across to Scotland and some to America. You can try the Ellis island web site and they might have a record, but think that is only for America. You can google it in the search and also in the search bar in this group to enable you to find such people that can help. Although a lot of records in Ireland were destroyed in a big fire and so tracing back can be quite tricky. You should try on here first in your search bar and look up Irish immigration to England and see what it picks up. There are still parish records help in local churches, but not all kept the records. You can ask for a search if someone has already access to anything, but its always nice to ask people not to spend their own credits by doing this, just go in the trying to find and put in the names. If you need any more help, just ask.
thanks.

There would be very little paper work involved for someone travelling from one part of the UK (i.e., United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland) to another part of the UK. Dublin wasn't in a foreign country until 1922.