Irish Ancestors .....

[Sam]

Several of my ancestors migrated from Ireland to Clydeside in the early 19th century and I believe that many of the Irish records have not survived. Any suggestions about how to approach this problem?

[Russell]

Hi Sam

I was just re-reading your otiginal post and realised that both John and Samuel were of an age that they would be out working.
Although the family were linked to cotton weaving intially fewer relatively unskilled men were being employed by the mid-1800's. (Women and children could do the work more cheaply) so they would have to look outside the industry for employment.
Glasgow was a major importer/exporter of goods so it is possible that they signed on as crew on a cargo vessel which would be difficult to track down, or they could have left these shores and headed across the Atlantic or to the other side of the world.
Most of us have come across ancestors who disappeared from the records, sometimes for good, sometimes for a few years, to re-appear in unexpected places.
Finding their Irish roots would probably require a few clues about the township they were born in to even begin to track them down. Most Scottish records say merely 'born in Ireland' but a few enumerators were helpful and added in the actual county, or better still, the township.
Its difficult to search with your fingers crossed but perseverence is one attribute all would be genealogists have in abundance.

Russell