Did your Irish-American roots start in New France or Louisiana?

Question

Hi! In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, I wanted to post about two Immigration Categories:

• Irish Immigrants to New France (pre-1763)
• Irish Immigrants to Louisiana (post-1763)

Check them out, and if you're Irish-American thanks to an immigrant ancestor who settled in New France or New Orleans' Irish Channel, add the category to their profile and reunite them with their peers :D

Check out this year's Irish Channel parade: http://www.stpatricksdayneworleans.com/icp.html

''Erin go bragh'' & let the ''bon temps'' roll y'all!

Answer 1

I have just added my great-grandfather, John Dunsworth Barrette, to Irish Immigrants to Louisiana. He came about 1845 as stated in his obituary, but I have not been able to find any record of it.

Comments

Hi Henry! Thanks for adding the category to your ancestor. Let me know if you'd like to also join the Louisiana Families project

I don't think we have anyone working on Irish immigrants currently, so you might want to post a G2G question from your great-grandfather's profile for suggestions.

Hope you had a Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Cheers, Liz

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ps - If you post a question, I'd recommend tagging it louisiana_families, ireland, and irish_roots

Answer 2

This is my Paw-Paw's great Paw-Paw, and I want to know what brought him here. I would love to help out on the immigrant project. Philip Power  (below) came from Ireland around 1800 or so. He was an épicier (grocer) in New Orleans on Levée and Champs-Elysée (I think Decatur and Elysian Fields?). He married Elise Magioni, whose pop immigrated from Italy. I have posted a question about him elsewhere in the forum already. 

The Powers and Magionis are my most stubborn dead ends. I have had good luck with Genealogy Gophers and US Gen Web. Sadly, many of the records are from hospital records during the Yellow Fever epidemics. I saw MANY Irish names on those records, and I think being weakened by sea travel sent people from the ships to the Charity Hospital as soon as they got a mosquito bite.

Everyone else in the family is Acadian or Creole, so they are fairly easy to find in the records - plus, the Acadian genealogy project is amazing.

Comments

Too cool!

There's a Category:Irish Immigrants to Louisiana & there's also a suggestion for a new category - Category:New Orleans, Irish Channel or Irish Channel, New Orleans - on the Louisiana Early Inhabitants page. Would you be interested in heading a sub-project for Irish immigrants to Louisiana?

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That would be great! I'm just learning how things are done here, but I feel comfortable with researching and learning more about the context around Irish immigration to Louisiana. When I know more, I'd be happy to contribute time toa sub-project. Even better if there is a NOLA local interested in the project who can do legwork - I'm in Austin, Texas, and it might be awhile before I can get a road trip going.

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cool - I'll try to set up a space page later tonight that you can work off of till you're ready to claim it :D

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<3 !

Thanks Liz!

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so... haven't created the space page yet because the best name for it I come up with is "Irish in Louisiana" - is simple the way to go here or has my creative brain headed off on vacation early?

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Simple is good. I can complicate it later with "Pre-Famine Irish migrant Yellow Fever Catchers in New Orleans" or whatever when I have a better grasp of things XD.

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Done... It's an Open profile, so you can edit it as needed. If you send a trusted list request, I can add you as a manager.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Irish_in_Louisiana

Cheers, Liz

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Thank you!