Our Crown Roots in Ireland

I *think* I have located where our Crown's came from in Ireland! Look up Lurganboy and Manorhamilton in County Leitrum. These are the places about 25km east of Sligo where a pair of twins named Catherine and Charles were baptized in 1866, whose parents were Patrick Crown and Anne Clancy. These same twins appear in the 1870 census in Brooklyn. Catherine did not survive but Charles did. Although Charles H. Crown never married or had children, his claim to fame might have been being busted for breaking prohibition laws!

Meanwhile I also located the death certificate for Patrick Crown who died in Brooklyn in 1903. His parents were listed as Richard Crown and Sarah Meehan. This sent me looking for Richard Crown in the Griffith's Valuation for County Leitrim at a wonderful website called Ask About Ireland. There was one match for Richard Crown in the townland of Pollboy, in the civil parish of Cloonlogher and the barony of Drumhaire. It looks like Richard's property was just across the Shanvaus River, southwest of Lurganboy, denoted on an old map of the area as farm "2a". When comparing that old map to a current-day satellite map, there appears to be a building still standing there, but of course it's hard to tell for sure.

So this is all very exciting. I am in search of more documentation to verify my assumptions here, and will post my findings as they become available.