OnePlace Study: Ogdensburg, PQ Table of Records

To go along with the Surname study, I am conducting a One Place Study on Ogdensburg, Quebec. 

For my One Place Study I created a Table of Records for the area.
The first records I added to the table was census records which included the area before and after my family arrived in the area. 

I want to know why they picked this remote area in a French Catholic province when they were neither. How did they know about this area? They might have learned about the area from other family who came before them to this area, therefore I am looking at the census records before they arrived. It is part of the FAN research. Family/Friends, Associates, and neighbours. I am looking for family who arrived before my direct line. 

This is a screen shot of part of the census section of the Table of Records. 

I searched each census for Dowd/O'Dowd and Donoughy/Donoughoo (mother's maiden name).

Below is a screen shot of the Civil Registration of the Table of Records.

This shows the purpose for the first column. 

As I find more records I will add it to this table. 

As I search each of these records I will put the result in my Research Log. 

If family is found, I will save a copy of the record, along with the source, the URL, of the record

The DOWD FamilyTree DNA Surname Study Group

 Please join the Dowd Surname Study on FamilyTree DNA website. It is all Free. 

The link is:  https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/dowd/about

Please join and ask family members to also join. 

If you have done a DNA test, please upload, no matter what type. All information may help others find their family. 

One Place Study (OPS)

The Dowd/Donoghue family immigrated in 1841 to a little town in Quebec. To partner with these surname studies, I am doing a One Place Study of Ogdensburg, Quebec.  

The WikiTree pages for the One Place Study (OPS) are:
Study space page:         https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Ogdensburg,_Québec_One_Place_Study Study category page:     https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Ogdensburg,_Québecc_One_Place_Study

I will be adding this study to other websites. Once that is done, they will be listed here.

One Name Study (ONS) / Surname Study

I have just started a One Name Study (ONS), also known as a Surname Study for the surname Dowd. 

I have started a page on WikiTree.

Study space page:          https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Dowd_Name_Study Study category page:     https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Dowd_Name_Study

I have actually started two One Name Studies. The second one is Donoghue. 

The WikiTree pages are
Study space page:         https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Donoghue_Name_Study Study category page:     https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Donoghue_Name_Study

FTDNA  There is a group project on FTDNA for Dowd
It is located at     https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/dowd/about 

Please join this project and upload your DNA to FTDNA. 

Dowd townland and parish in County Monaghan

From the records I located in RootsIreland.ie website, I found out where in County Monaghan the family was living before coming to Canada. 

Townland: Corringshigo
Civil Parish: Currin
Co. Monaghan

To locate where these were I went to two great websites for maps in Ireland. 

Irish Ancestors
Townlands

From Irish Ancestors website we can see that in County Monaghan, Currin parish is number 6 and is located in west of the county. 

Source: https://www.johngrenham.com/c_parish/c_parish_main.php?civilparishid=1955&civilparish=Currin&county=Monaghan 

From the Townlands website we can also see where the civil parish of Currin is located. 

Source: https://www.townlands.ie/monaghan/currin2/

From the Townlands website we can see where Corrinshigo townland is within the parish. It is located in the NW corner of the parish. 

From the GeoHive website, this map lists the Townlands around it and what the land looks like.
As the townland is close to County Cavan this map shows parts of both counties. 

Source: http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html?webmap=de86a2ef188a49e3a3b7a88ef1876574

RootsIreland.ie website update

For my BYU-I British Isles course I had to get a subscription to RootsIreland.ie website. When my course finished I wanted to search for my own family as much as possible before the subscription ran out. In this blog post I not only share how exciting this was to find proof and family records but also the steps used when searching a family on a website by using multiple searches strategies. 

Background Information
From my family, I was given the following information. Richard Dowd and Mary Donaheau married 1824 in Ireland. I was also given the following children. They had Elizabeth (22 Jan 1825), Jane (1827), MaryAnn (abt 1829) and Richard (1832) in Ireland before coming to Canada in 1841. In Canada they had Robert James (8 May 1842 Quebec, Canada) and Margaret (1829 Ireland). Margaret was listed as the sixth child and that she was born in Canada but birthdate is given too early and in Ireland. I will come back to this later. 

There was confusion in the information I was given as to Mary's maiden name. Donaheau or Summerville/Somerville, although it was later stated that Summerville was her mother's maiden name. 

Search for individual records
I searched on the RootsIreland website for each of the family members' baptism record with the father's first and surname, the mother's first name, the child's name and the year born with +/-5 years. I was so excited to find the first three of the children listed. 

I was given the information that Elizabeth was born 22 Jan 1825 Monaghan. 

Note the date of the baptism. 

I was given the information that Mary Ann was born about 1829 in Monaghan. 

Note the spelling of her first name

Note the date of the baptism. 

I was given the information that Jane Dowd was born in 1827 Monaghan.

 
Note the date of the baptism. 
Parish is consistent. 

The records for all three girls spelled Mary's last name as Donoughy, verifying the correct maiden name but Richard did not show up. 

Search by parents
Now I knew how Mary's surname was spelled and I knew there was another child, I searched for baptism records with the father and mother's names only. I did not enter a child's name in the search field. I found another son, who was not recorded in family records! Thomas Dowd.  The mother's name this time was give as Donahoo. The spelling was close enough that the search engine picked it up. 

I was so excited but I still didn't have Richard but sometimes not all children are recorded even for Church of Ireland records. Another possibility is that he was baptized Thomas. This baptism is later than what I was given, so I believed Thomas is another child, and it is always good to search in a variety of ways.

Surname Index
As time is running out, I decided to use the websites surname index. They did not have Dowd in their list by itself, so I searched for any baptism in County Monaghan with the surname Dowd. There were 6 pages, of 10 on each page, of names listed chronologically starting in 1820. I found Richard and another daughter!

I had tried Rich* but that had not worked on this site. 

I would not have found these two if I had not tried searching for just the surname. 

The Margaret I mentioned above appears here in Ireland. Did this one die in Ireland and another daughter born in Canada named the same
or is this the one I was given?

I do not know... yet.

As I went through the surname list, I also saved Dowd families in the same townland and was able to construct a Family Group Record for them, as there is a chance they are related. One name was a Robert son of Hamilton Dowd. One of my Dowd family is a Robert Hamilton. Because of naming traditions I knew I should record this family for future reference. 

Death records
I searched for any death records for Dowd in County Monaghan. No death records were available for any Dowds in County Monaghan. Therefore, at this time I do not know what happened to the two children Thomas or Margaret. Death records were not recorded often for anyone or any religion in Ireland so this is not a surprise. 

Here is the family group sheet now of the children born in Ireland. There is a Robert James born in Canada and possibly another Margaret. 

Richard and Mary (Donoughy) Dowd

Eliza Dowd
Bap: 26 Jan 1823

Jane Dowd
Bap: 3 Jul 1825

Richard Dowd  (Listed as Richey)
Bap: 5 Apr 1829
(Father’s name Richey, Mother’s surname Donoho)

Marianne Dowd
Bap 29 Jan 1832

Thomas Dowd
Bap: 9 Aug 1835

Margaret Dowd
Born: 10 Feb 1839
Bap: 22 Feb 1839
(Mother’s surname Donogho)

Each record records:

Religion: Church of Ireland
Townland: Corringshigo
Civil Parish: Currin
County Monaghan

I now know where in County Monaghan they are from with the parish name. This will be a great help to find more information. 

Information given to me from family is that the family immigrated to Quebec, Canada in 1841. Robert was born in Quebec in 1842. Margaret is the last child I found for this family on the RootsIreland.ie website which seems to confirm this but the next step is for me to obtain a copy of Robert's birth record, Margaret's birth certificate, and immigration information. 

Baptism Records for Richard and Mary Dowd's children in Co Monaghan

This was the first post as I was working through the records. The second post I did on this, I was able to find all the children.  

 In the RootsIreland.ie website, I found baptism records for great (x3) aunts and an uncle. 

They are the children of Richard and Mary O'Dowd. They were born in County Monaghan which is where family records said they were living before coming to Canada. They are listed as Church of Ireland which is also consistent with the family religion.

Family notes state a Richard Dowd married Mary Donaheu in Monaghan. Four children were born to them in Ireland. Two were born in Canada. The location should have been County Monaghan. 

I found the following records on this website.
Note the spelling of Mary's (the mother's) surname. Also the Parish name(s) are given. 
Both of these items will be useful for finding more records. 

I was given the information that Elizabeth was born 22 Jan 1825 Monaghan. 

Note the date of the baptism.

I was given the information that Mary Ann was born about 1829 in Monaghan. 

Note the spelling of her first name

Note the date of the baptism. 

I was given the information that Jane Dowd was born in 1827 Monaghan.

 
Note the date of the baptism. 
Parish is consistent. 

There was no Thomas Dowd listed in the family information I was given. I was told that Richard (the father) had a younger brother named Thomas. Mary's name is spelled differently but it is a variant of the previously listed surname. It is the same parish and the same church in the same location. I will look for a death record for Thomas because the information I have has no Thomas coming to Canada with the family.

 I did not find Richard (born 31 Mar 1832). Was he baptized Thomas? This baptism is later than what I was given, so I believe Thomas is another child. 

Two parishes listed in some of the records probably due to a change in boundaries. 

I was told that Robert James and Margaret, children of Richard and Mary, were born in Canada. The date I was given for Margaret's birth was 1829 Monaghan which contradictions information stating she was born in Canada. I did not find a baptism record for Robert or Margaret.