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Thank you all. I will def order the birth certificate. I have also contacted the irish papers who are going to put an ad out. So hopefull I'll have more to go on. Thanks again all :-) x

Im really not convinced the census (US) I posted is them

You do have to buy the cert for her birth to be sure, to be sure!

I dont think anyone can help until you get that


x

I've gone on Family Search and I'm just going to paste information that MIGHT be useful as I go along.

??

parents: Michael O'Rourke,? Delia O'Rourke
name: Margaret O'Rourke
event: Census
event date: 1930
event place: Bronx (Districts 1-250), Bronx, New York
gender: Female
age: 13
marital status: Single
race: White
birthplace: Ireland
estimated birth year: 1917
immigration year: 1920
relationship to head of household: Daughter
father's birthplace: Ireland
mother's birthplace: Ireland
enumeration district number: 0081
family number: 195
sheet number and letter: 7A
line number: 27
nara publication: T626, roll 1465
digital folder number: 4661135

Hi Elizabeth

You just have to send for that birth certificate :-)

Hi both, thank you so much for helping me search. I am still trying to find any documents from around the family but with so many of us none of us know who has what.. to the attics! Thank you again.

Gins

That looks like a very good find with that marriage
I can't veiw the 1930 census for the US as I don't have world cover sorry.

And then there is this marriage which is the same county as the Margaret birth


Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958
Name: Michael O'Rorke
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1908
Registration district: Strokestown
Volume: 3
Page: 227
FHL Film Number: 101261

Married one of these girls

Ellen Hanly
Mary Kilgannon
Anne Owens
Bridget Toolan<<<<<? Bridget is the name on Sues shipping record


Sue

Would you have a look at that 1930 US census please. The mothers name and the childs name with MH as the initials. It says Mannie on a correction entry but the child is listed as 'daughter'

Looks more like Marieanne?

Edit: I found the 1930 family in 1920, children Margaret & Daniel 7months, Wife is Delia grrrrrr

x

Gins
That looks like a good find ,we need to find out if she went to the US for sure

I cant seem to find anything else on her with a father called Micheal,Irish records are such a pain.

Suex

UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
Name: Margaret O'rourne <<Student
Birth Date: abt 1916
Age: 19
Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
Arrival Date: 19 Apr 1935
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ship Name: Majestic
Search Ship Database: View the 'Majestic' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Cunard White Star
Official Number: 146555


Going to 255 Southlands Road, Bickley, Kent. It does say O'Rourke on the record

Sue


Can you see an incoming shipping record for the family, I cant seem to find one?

If it is the correct family going to NY then Margaret must have come back to marry in the UK in the 40s

x

Thats OK Gins

It was only a stab in the dark anyway.

Suex

I use Ancestry World Wide sub


http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/

Sorry to be a bit silly (its the irish in me!) but where are these records?

Same one as Sue posted but I wanted to get his birth place


New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: Michael Orourke
Arrival Date: 23 Dec 1924
Birth Year: abt 1892
Birth Location: Ireland
Birth Location Other: deneughmero co cork ( donoughmore co cork)
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Irish
Port of Departure: Cobh, Ireland
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Cedric

1930 United States Federal Census
about Margaret O'Rourke
Name: Margaret O'Rourke
[Margaret Orourke]
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1917
Birthplace: Ireland
Race: White
Home in 1930: Bronx, Bronx, New York
View Map
Marital Status: Single
Immigration Year: 1920
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's Name: Michael O'Rourke Labourer/contractor
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Name: Delia O'Rourke
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland

Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Michael O'Rourke 40
Delia O'Rourke 30 <<<Hmmm??
Margaret O'Rourke 13
Helen O'Rourke 9 <<Maybe Ellen?
MA* O'Rourke 1

Sorry Sue


Youre right it does say Ireland, its the transcription that states USA...wrong of course

Thanks Sue. Very grateful for your help.

Hi Elizabeth

It also states that Micheal is a farm lab on this same record.

May have some connection.
The shipping record I am looking at says all born Ireland and destination NY
Sue

Yes, they certainly know how to keep you guessing!!

And.. they all seems to be called the same! Typical.

I think the line through the childrens names means they didnt travel?

The shipping record also has Margaret as being born in the US


Oh dont you just love the Irish records ;-)