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Re: GALVIN FAMILY IRELAND

Posted By: Sissy Galvin Leff
Date: 5/14/07

In Response To: Re: GALVIN FAMILY IRELAND (Laura Holst)

Dear Laura, In checking back on old postings, I see your posting of April 5, and I thank you for your message. Its possible that your Michael Galvin may be kin, possibly my grt. grt. Grandfather. The problem is that I don't know who my Grt. Grt. Grandmother was. As my adding and subtraction goes, according to my Grt. Grandfathers death certif. he came to the United States at the age of 35ish. I know for a fact that his marriage to Elizabeth Walworth Hines Galvin took place in England, where she was from. According to the New York Census of 1900, they were married for 18yrs in 1900, and there son Michael was 17yrs. old, who is my Grandfather. In 1982 I was in Ireland and called my father from Dublin. I asked all the questions and got these answers. According to my father the family came from Galway. Having said that, I contacted the East and West Galway Family History Centers, and was told they have no history of Michael Galvin or Patrick
Galvin in Galway. Once my sister heard that, she told me my father told her County Cork. According to what I have been told by a Family History Researcher from Dublin, the Catholic Church had all the records from the Counties in a Catherdal outside of Dublin. The only way you got access was by a letter from the church heads and that costs money. Anyway, there was a fire in the Catheral and most of the records from the 1830's to the late 1860's were destroyed, and others were charred and some unreadable. For years the Brittish Goverment asked for the records for history and the Catholic Church refused. Millions of people will never know who there families are because of these ass---- stupid people, (please excuse that). I get real mad and enraged every time I type that. So my dear you know my failure for searching. Thanks for your posting, and if I can help please let me know. Best regards, Sissy

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