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Googled..............

Between 1845-52 Ireland suffered a period of starvation, disease and emigration that became known as the Great Famine. The potato crop, upon which a third of Ireland's population was dependent for food, was infected by a disease destroying the crop.

Do you have his marriage certificate?

Did he name a father?

Look at the following free site for possible baptism


https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/

Can we assume that you haven't located him in 1851?

It's quite a tricky one. The ancestors I'm searching for is on the 1861 Census as living in a house as a lodger with many other Irish people. He was listed as a miner, asged 25. He married in 1862 but unfortunately he passed away in a pit accident before the 1871 Census, leaving a wife and 3 children , he was aged 30.
So from this information I'm thinking he came over from Ireland not long before the 1861 Census.
I've never had anything to do with searching people from Ireland and know absolutely nothing about ,so I'm just looking for any advice on which way to tackle it.
Thanks for your replies :-)

Try local history groups or the Staffs FHS.

Have you tried googling? Or looking at censuses?

Might depend on what was happening in Ireland, eg Potato Famine, so were they going TO something such as work or AWAY from hardship and desperate need.

1820's/1830's

Divergent paths: Family histories of Irish emigrants in Britain 1820-1920
John Herson

Online ISBN: 9781781708385
Print ISBN: 9780719090639
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Hi all

Just needing a bit of info regarding the dates when there was an influx of Irish people coming over to settlei n Staffordshire?

Thank you Deb