South Bend, Indiana is the small
town that is renowned for being the home of the famous Notre Dame University. The university was founded by a French Catholic priest in 1842 and is
intimately associated with Catholic Irish higher education.[1]
Countless numbers of Americans of Irish heritage have studied there. The town
itself attracted a small but significant number of Irish immigrants in the
post-Famine years. By 1860, there was about 400 Irish born residents.[2]
If you know or think that some
of your Irish ancestors may have lived in South Bend, then Jill Dale's Rootsweb
site is an important port of call for your research. Among her research
focusing on county Mayo, and Irish immigration in Britain, she has documented
her extensive research about Irish immigrant families in the city. Her own
Brennan family research is the focus, but she has gone far beyond this to
include information about Irish immigrants coming to the city, a history of the
main Catholic parish, St. Joseph's, and transcriptions from many 19th century
sources such as censuses, parish registers, and city directories. The
transcribed information is helpfully divided by family name.
Access the website by clicking here.
[1]University
of Notre Dame. History of the University:
A Place Born of Imagination and Will 2014. http://www.nd.edu/about/history :
accessed 7 December 2014
[2]
Familysearch.org. United State Census
1860. 2014. Manual index search of https://familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=75&query=%2Bresidence_place%3A%22south%20bend%2C%20indiana%22~%20%2Bbirth_place%3Aireland~&collection_id=1473181:
accessed 7 December 2014.
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