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Hello all- I am in need of some help- I just found this obituary in relation to one of my ancestors. It says that he had a sister Mrs. Lanning of Clifton Springs NY- I have been pulling out my hair to find this person.

Any Ideas on were to start or how to approach this?

 

Thanks

 

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He was married in Clare Ireland. Search Irish Census records?

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Mathew Dowling

 in the Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915

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Name:	Mathew Dowling
Gender:	Male
Event Type:	Marriage
Marriage Date:	Nov 1864
Marriage Place:	Drumclift, Clare, Ireland
Parish Variants:	Ennis
Diocese:	Killaloe
Spouse:	Anne MacMahon

Source Citation

Catholic Parish Registers, The National Library of Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Microfilm Number: Microfilm 02472 / 05

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

Original data:

Catholic Parish Registers, National Library of Ireland, Ireland. Published under the National Library of Ireland's Terms of Use of Material made available on registers.nli.ie.

 

 

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Daughter Alice was born in New York about 1873. Mary was born in Ireland about 1872. Search immigration records for 1872-1873. Families usually traveled together. Search immigration of Dowling and Lanning born between 1830 and 1840 maybe.

Answer 1

You might search the 1910 census for Lannings in the area of Clifton Springs, New York to start. That might give you potential names for the sister and her husband to further research in earlier census records or possibly marriage records - and additional newspaper articles.

Answer 2

There is an interesting site (free) which has quite a number of the New York State newspapers.  You might find some clues at www.fultonhistory.com.