Can anyone make a connection to Ireland?

Question

Elizabeth Lawley (with many variant spellings) migrated with her parents from Ireland to Lower Canada in 1834. Her parents died of cholera, leaving her an orphan. She was baptized Marie Elizabeth under condition at St-Germain in Rimouski when she was about 13. (I wish I could remember the Ancestry tree that had that record, which I might not have found otherwise.) The record of her marriage to Pierre Lavoie from when she was about 18 says her parents' names were Walter and Bridget. Lawley is a name found in northern Ireland. Is there any way to find birth date and place for Elizabeth?

Answer 1

Grosse Île project might be able to help you.  This was the quarantine station from 1832 on into 20th century.  The project members know where to find records for the people who wound up there, and since you say the parents died of cholera, there is high probability they were on that island.  Remove one of the name variations and add Grosse_ile tag instead to draw their attention.

Answer 2

There are 23 Lawleys in the 1901 Ireland census, most of them from Counties Cork and Wicklow.  

There are no death records for a Walter Lawley or a Bridget Lawley in Ireland up to 1900, but they may have both died before civil death recording became commonplace in the 1860s, or Bridget may have remarried.  Or they may have emigrated themselves.  Or they may be recorded as Lawler, Lowley, etc.

Unless you're very lucky and they were recorded in parish church records, this might be a brick wall.

Comments

Ah, so not from the north. The parents didn't die in Ireland. They all migrated (Elizabeth was only about 3), and the parents died in Lower Canada, as happened to too many Irish migrants. Are there more Ireland census records? I'm a bit lost outside my usual Quebec searching.

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Most of 1851 Census were lost in the fire but some Armagh (almost 60,000) records are available but no Lawley's to be found. I understand your family left 1834 but they may have left family behind. Irish Census records http://census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

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Thank you for the link! I'm not getting hits for 1821 or 1831, but it's a good place to start.

(Not my family. My cousins' family. My family kept marrying other Canadiens, no Irish or Scottish or other immigrants.)

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As I said, You may be lucky. But in 1922 we had the fire in the Public Records Office. Also, to save paper some census records were pulped by the Irish Government. Two-thirds of The Church of Ireland original parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials were destroyed