No relation but the
Code family moved from s.w. Wicklow to Lanark Co. Upper Canada 1818-1832, some settling in Perth/Charleton. They moved for a variety of reasons land grants of 100 acres, unrest from 1798 still prevailed, relatives, neighbours and friends moved with them or shortly after. Large Estates were downsizing the number of tenants due to taxes and some actively encouraged immigration. Some landlords helping pay for expenses, some landlords just evicting. The earkt effects of the 1846 Famine were felt long before the famine really took hold. I have some letters/documents from an Estate Manager in the late 1820's commenting on crop failures and large groups of people walking and looking for food and work.
Have you tried the website
www.granniesgenealogygarden.com for early census 1820's.
www.theshipslist.come also has some very early records, the ships came to Quebec then steamships then took passengers from Quebec to Montreal and then to
Upper Canada. There was a Margaret and William Main 1815 to New
Brunswick, Robert
Mains July 25, 1825, Daniel
Mains Sept. 1833 and probably more but these lists are still being transcribed.
I was only able to find one 1824 tithe for James
Mains, Drumkeeran
Parish, Corrocrophery Townland but Tithe records are sparce on the internet. There are some parish records
www.censusfinder.com and
www.igp-web.com has other information. If you are trying to establish relationship cemetary inscriptions can be valuable.
By Aug. 1862 the
Griffiths Valuation for Fermanagh had only two Maine's (sp) left in Fermanagh Catherine
Parish Clones, Clonatty Towland and Thomas,
Parish Clones, Lisrace.
1851 Westminster Township,
Middlesex Co. Census David age 58,
Farmer, Con 1, Lot 21 (early census usually only had head of family)
1851
Warwick Township Agricultural Census, lambton, Ontario
John Main Con 4, Lot 6
1851,
Upper Canada, James born Ireland abt 1820, age 32 wife Jan age 25, Margrett 7, Anne Jane 1;
1881 James
Mains 70, wife Jane 55, Noable 24, Margarett 23, William 19, Barbara 16, Amanda 12.
1871 James
Mains age 65 born abt 1805/6
Simcoe North, Vespra
Death James
Mains 28 Nov. 1880,
Simcoe age 75, est.born 1806, Church of
England, died of old age, illness 1 yr. in duration, registered by Mary Jane
Mains, Widow, #014463
Death James
Mains 27 Sept 1882 age 70 yr. born est 1812,
Yeoman, Co. Fermanagh, illness:epilepsey 9-10 yrs.signed by witness D E(?) Groves, Jane
Mains Widow signed with an X. Lot 2, Con 3,
Nepean, Methodist #002202
Border
Crossing Port
Huron,
Michigan, destination Canada 24 May 1912 50 est.birth 1862,
Labour. Father Joseph
Mains, Clogher, Ireland.
You probably have most of that already. There is only one for sure way the find
Irish baptism/birth records is to visit the Church of Ireland, Representative Library which has Protestant records prior to 1899 in
Dublin or National Library. Have you tried
www.familysearch.org and its new
PILOT program under 'search records'?
Annette
Code'genealogy for fun'