I am looking for a needle in a haystack here. When my grandfather, Robert Samuel Leith wanted to immigrate from Glanmire he needed his birth certificate. And he found his name was really Robert Salter and he had been raised by his maternal Grandmother by the name of Leith. His Father's name was either Samuel or Robert Salter who had a brother by the name of John Salter, a farmer near Blackrock. Samuel and/or Robert ran a clothier in Bandon. My grandfather had an older sister by the name of Margaret Catherine Leith who was born out of wedlock and there MAY have been a younger sister who would have been just a baby the last my Grampa saw her. Margaret was sold into slavery/servitute in England and my Grampa, Robert Leith sent to a farm to be raised by his Grandmother. No info on the baby girl. His father had his mother committed to a psychiatric hospital in what we believe was Fota, Ireland possibly around 1920 or so, (we believe her name was Eliza or Catherine Leith but we are not sure). Samuel or Robert Salter was believed to be quite a wealthy man and of high status in the community of Bandon.

Any information on this Salter family including dates, names and locations would be greatly appreciated. Also, any ties to the family of an Eliza/Elizabeth or Catherine Leith also of Bandon or Glanmire.

My Grandfather Robert Leith (or Salter) eventually married Kathleen Jane Massey and immigrated to Canada on the MV Georgic which landed first in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


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