Any suggestions for the best way to find relatives in ireland?

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The name Loucy is an old spelling of the name Lucy and according to the first website below;
"The surname Loucy frequently occurs in the list. It is now spelled like the English surname Lucy. In the Fiants (Elizabeth) it is spelled O' Lwoshie and O' Lwosie. It is said to mean herb-doctor. Mr DJ Lucy, HC, a prominent member of this ancient Irish family says that the O' Luosies were a branch of the O Donoghues. The O' Luosies have been long seated in Macroom and neighbourhood."
Macroom is in County Cork.

Muldoon is a fairly common name in Ireland, historically "The name, which is among the most numerous in Co. Fermanagh in the 1659 "census", is still to be found there in considerable numbers."

The name 'Rabbitt' and more commonly spelt 'Rabbitte' is most common in Galway in the west of Ireland. You can type the names and counties into the search facility of the Irish phone book at the third site below.

Nick n

if your lucky the records will not have been destroyed.

where my family tree stops, the records office was destroyed in a fire for that part of ireland.

well i hope you are more luckier than we were.

Orla C

You need a location they left from, town, village, townland. You need to know the County it's in - this is very important, as for example there is a Thomastown in County Kilkenny, and several others throughout Ireland.

Once you have those, you can try contacting the churches in the locations for parish records for your ancestors' names, no point in looking in the state records because they were probably destroyed during the early 1920s.

If you want to try and track down living relatives, you could see if there are any in the locations still - this is a possibility, but not a given. Try the Irish telephone directory at www.goldenpages.ie, click on the Eircom phone book link.

I've never seen the name Loucey, but I have seen Lucey. And I've seen Rabbitte, but not Rabbit. Spelling could easily have been corrupted as it's entirely possible that your ancestors could not write English, so officials wrote down what they thought they heard.

Please be aware that we Irish are not really not caught up in the whole pedigree thing unless it has to do with lifestock or inheritances, so while I'm sure you will be made welcome, not many people will actually care that you have Irish ancestry. Sorry, but we get so many claiming to be part Irish ....

Eddie F

Purchase a good spade, a long life battery torch - and dig em up!

Trish D

Do lots of work before you come here. You will find it terribly frustrating otherwise. You will need at a minimum the town/village they came from and as many family names as you can find.

Some people try to look without even knowing the county, that sort of approach is complete time-wasting.

Martina L

http://www.dunbrody.com/database.php?level=1&id=3
If you come over you should visit the famine ship in New Ross, Co. Wexford. The have an archive of emigrants.

Mike F

Im afraid WE hardly know who were related to half the time? You would need an actual reseached history to be honest, because the Muldoon clan on the far side of town dont know if they are related to the other Muldoon clan, they probably are, and are indifferent about it anyway. It may be difficult for ya... :-(

boofuswoolie

Luocey is likely a misprint. Try Doucey, Lacey or Lucy. Rabbite is also more likely

planet.tracey

i live in northern ireland, and we often see notices in local papers asking for details of long lost relatives, so you could try that. good luck

poppy

Hi Annie I hope you have some place names to go on you will definitely need them, all the above answers cover some part of what I was going to say but also try the link below I found all my relatives on it - the Dublin county ones anyway. The surnames you have may have been adapted as already said, Luocey could be Lucey or Lacey, Muldoon is common and Rabbit is more likely to be Rabitte. Good luck with your search!

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy/censusrtns.htmlo

Stargirl

Well they actually sound like quite rare surnames, so you could just try directory enquiries (11811) once you get here! Also try the Irish National Library on Kildare street in Dublin city centre

duh

Pick up a local phone book (Irish) and dial away. As long as the recipients have the same last name as yourself.

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