Nova B

Female

Ontario

Canada

Profile Information:

What surnames are you interested in researching?
Bonnar, Higgin, McCafferty, Rowe, Gallagher, Sweeney, Hall, Corcoran, Brown, all Acadian names and many more! :-)
What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?
France, Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, U.S.A. ++++
What is your level of genealogy knowledge?
Advanced Family History Researcher
If you are a genealogy expert, what are your specialties?
Finding information on families that seem to have disappeared into thin air.

Comment Wall:

  • Thomas Valley

    Thanks for the interest, Nova. As far as I know, it was Quebec. Robert Fitzgerald noted on more than one census that he was born Feb 1839 in Quebec, and Matthew, his brother also noted Quebec, with a dob of Jan 1837.

    Family legend says that their parents, Robert and Margaret, sailed in from Ireland to settle in Boston. At the bottom of the gangplank, the immigration official told them that their were "too many Irish" and sent them back onto the ship. The ship then steamed for Canada, where they settled. Robert and Matthew were then born there, and eventually traveled down to Illinois, where they settled in McLean county, and each had a herd of children.

    I'm an Ancestry subscriber, a member of Q-R, and I've searched the Automated Genealogy site extensively, and I can't seem to track them down in Canada at all. I've also come up short looking for any sort of passenger records.

    Anything you might have in the way of help would be greatly appreciated.

    Jul 15, 2009