Re: Keleher's from County Cork
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Re: Keleher's from County Cork
brenda ? 3/19/09
Hi Brenda,
Patrick is very much like john as a first name.my ggg-grandfather came from co. cork as the story goes.the thing with that is at least 700,000 people emigrated out of Ireland from the port of Cobh ( pronounced Cove) a port south of cork city in the the co. cork.the titanic made it's last call there before heading across the the atlantic.it was a very busy port.
my family came directly to nova scotia, or at least canada .during the famine, there were many who landed for processing at Grosse Isle , an island in the st. lawrence river in the province of quebec, it was an awful place akin to the refugee holding stations you may read about in far off places in asia as people try to cross the pacific ocean today, or 30 or 40 years ago.
i was in dublin and found names matching my gggGF and his wife , a leahy , marrying in 1839.still do not know when they left Ireland, but my ggGF married someone born in 1841 in nova scotia, so that would make sense date wise.still as patrick is to john, so is mary to the female name,so if these were my ancestors, it is still to be seen.
i know nothing about the story of my patrick and so it may be lost ,but if he came first to canada and went to georgia for work there may be something there. but most likely remote are the chances.
many Irish arrived in Saint John , New Brunswick and mine and possibly yours moved through that port.
I have been studying the Irish Language,Irish Gaelic, and just for interest sake maybe, the name Michael, in the Irish , is pronounce MeeHalland would be spelled, Mícháel.
good luck on the search
Dusty