Timothy Gilroy's Naturalization

Our line of Gilroys in the US began with Timothy Gilroy.

His Naturalization Papers yielded this data:

Birthdate: 10 May 1818

Birthplace: Sligo, Ireland

Arrived: New York 30 June 1851

Date of Naturalization: 18 Oct 1864

He had resided in RI last 13 years (since 1851)

 

 

I have not yet found the passenger manifest for his entry into the United States.

 

Family lore was that he left Ireland after publishing seditious material, and went to Holland. When he was there he realized that his children would not speak English, so he left for America. There was also a story that he attended Trinity University and studied math in Dublin, but I was unable to verify that when I contacted archivists in the mid-1990's.