Ohio Families

Kilkeel 2 Registration District, County Down
Births
June 21, 1871, in Lisnacree, Kilkeel
Richard, son of James Grant, a farmer of Lisnacree, and Elizabeth Grant, formerly Quin. informant: James Grant, father, of Lisnacree

Kilkeel Catholic Parish Register
Baptisms
June 18, 1871
Richard, son of James Grant and Elizabeth Quinn, sponsors: John McAlinden and Ann Grant. Lisnacree

Richard took over his mother's farm, Parcel 4B in Lisnacree, when she died. It had earlier been her father's. At Richard's death it went to his full and half siblings, who evidently gave/sold? the right to a Patrick Cunningham.

Valuation Revision Books, Lisnacree.
1884 - 1898
Parcel 4B
1884: Patrick Rourke
1892: Elizabeth Rourke
1898: Richard Grant

1899 - 1914
Parcels 4A and 4B
1899: Richard Grant
1906: Patrick Cunningham

No 74
Grant, Richard
I Richard Grant of Lisnacree do hereby make and publish this my last will and testament herby revoking all others. I give and bequeath my farm of land and all other property of every nature that I may die possessed of to my brothers and sisters both of whole and half blood that may be living at the time of my decease in equal shares as tenants in common and I appoint Bernard Sloan, Ballymaderphy, and David McCullough of Rostrevor executors of this my will.

Dated 26 May 1900, Richard Grant
witnesses: Wm J White, James Irvine

Passenger Manifest, left Liverpool on May 2, 1900 on the Oceanic.
Scratched from the voyage:

Richard Grant, 25, male, single, laborer, can read and write, Irish, last residence: Kilkeel. Paid own passage. Destination: Butte City, Montana. No ticket to destination, has no money with him. No person listed at destination.

The person listed next on the manifest was Richard's half brother, Patrick O'Rourke, headed to his sister's home in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Passenger Manifest of the Oceanic, left Liverpool on May 30, 1900
Arrived in New York on June 6, 1900, according to the index.

Seems to be travelling by himself:
Richard Grant, 25, male, single, laborer, can read and write, Irish, last residence: Co. Down. Paid own passage. Destination: Cleveland. No ticket to destination, has $40. No person listed at destination. Headed to 127 Van Ness Ave [the home of his half sister, Alice O'Rourke.]

 

1900 not found
1901 Grant Richard molder, r 2455 Elmo
1902 not found
1903 Grant Richard molder, boards 2484 Elmo

 

1904 Grant Richard molder r 1995 Woodland Hills av
1905 not found

Richard Grant, "Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997"
Name: Richard Grant
Gender: Male
Burial Date:
Burial Place:
Death Date: 29 Sep 1904
Death Place: Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
Age: 32
Birth Date: 1872

"Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F6DY-X2L : accessed 08 Nov 2013), Richard Grant, 29 Sep 1904.

Forename : Richard
Surname : Grant
Date of Death : 29 September 1904
Date of Grant : 16 January 1905
Registry : Belfast
Effects : Effects £34 15s.
Abstract : Probate of the Will of Richard Grant late of Lisnacree County Down Farmer who died 29 September 1904 at Cleveland Ohio U.S.A. granted at Belfast to Bernard Sloan Farmer and David M'Cullough Auctioneer.