Records of James Crotty on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Crotty and the Crotty Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Crotty Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Crotty family tree.

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Some Famous People called James Crotty

James Crotty (prospector)

James Crotty (1845–1898) was an Irish-born mining prospector who formed a mining company, the North Mount Lyell mining company, in the western region of Tasmania, just before the turn of the twentieth century.

His mining company was in fierce competition with Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company that operated on the western side of Mount Lyell and he was in London seeking further investment funds for his mine when he died.

After he died, and the failure of the North Mount Lyell smelters at Crotty his company was amalgamated with the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in 1903.

His estate, being left to the Roman Catholic Church, enabled the completion of St Patrick's Catherdral in Melbourne, Victoria.

His legacy currently is in the name of a now drowned townsite, Crotty, and Crotty Dam.

Source: James Crotty (prospector), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Crotty

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