My Great-grand father, Patrick O'Gara, left from Derry in the Spring of 1842 at age 19.
He had a pre-paid ticket received from hisolder brother, Michael, who had emigrated in 1839.
Patrick joined Michael in a coal mining village in Carbon County, Pennsylvania and started our family.
Cornealius and James, their younger brothers, came later.
The family came from the north-east side of the Glen towards Dun Roe or even further east.
John
Sunday 19th Mar 2017, 08:19PMMessage Board Replies
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Unfortunately the RC parish records for Glencolumbkille don’t start till the 1870s so we may struggle to find a records of your ancestors who left in the 1840s. The tithe applotment records haven’t survived either. I looked at the 1901 census and I can only see 1 O’Gara family in the area, so perhaps these are relations of your family:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Glencolmbkille/Aghragh/1175552/
Griffiths Valuation for 1857 shows Daniel & John Gara jointly farming plot 25 which was a 7 acre farm in Aghragh. They also had shared use with most of the other tenants in the townland of the adjacent mountain for grazing sheep and cattle. They are presumably relatives of the family in the 1901 census.
Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Sunday 19th Mar 2017, 09:19PM