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mopinko

(72,153 posts) Sun Aug 7, 2022, 09:18 AM Aug 2022

i have a ?? about returnees. [View all]

i know sometime folks come back and find a title that is their's. but do they ever get title to family land?
i doubt there's anything i could id. the last ones over came in coffin ships. i believe my grandma was a maid, and my grandpa was a laborer, a 20 yr veteran, 10 yrs out and on a coffin ship w his wife and 3 small kids. i'd rly like to know how that works, but....

i'd think the irish govt would want this. esp if the lands arent being used atm.

does it happen?

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i have a ?? about returnees. [View all] mopinko Aug 2022 OP

I would think most immigrants would have sold their property to cover expenses of the trip to US. Thomas Hurt Aug 2022 #1

i'm figuring i may not have a claim, but mopinko Aug 2022 #2

That thought crossed my mind with GG Grandfather's house. Thomas Hurt Aug 2022 #3

a lot of irish records are a mess. mopinko Aug 2022 #4

That fire was actually 1922 during the Irish Civil war. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2022 #6

It's hghly unlikely that your ancestors owned land. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2022 #5

At a guess I wouldn't be optimistic. OnDoutside Aug 2022 #7

the last of them, for sure. mopinko Aug 2022 #8

Is it the Carlow section ? OnDoutside Aug 2022 #9

it's an expedia franchise mopinko Aug 2022 #10