Anthony Daly

Anne,

I assume the family was RC. You have put this query under Magheraculmoney parish. That parish has no records prior to 1836, so if that is where Anthony was born, or where his parents married, there won’t be any record to find. 

Do you know what Anthony senior’s’ occupation was? (You might get that from his son’s death certificate. Anthony junior looks to have died in Glasgow in 1872 judging by some Ancestry trees.). If he was a farmer, then he should be in the 1828 tithe applotment records. But he won’t be listed there if he was a labourer, servant or someone else without land. There is 1 Anthony Daly in the Magheraculmoney tithes. He lived in Rosculben (more commonly Rosscolban). That's beside the village of Kesh:

http://www.irishgenealogyhub.com/fermanagh/tithe-applotment-books/parish-of-magheraculmoney.php

The family had gone or died out by the time of Griffiths Valuation in 1862. Did they move to Scotland too, perhaps?

Death registration didn’t start in Ireland till 1864. If Anthony senior and Catherine died there before that, there probably won’t be a record, unless there’s a gravestone.

Thank you very much for this information.

Anne

Anne,

Glad to help. Any questions, let me know.

Researching in Ireland in the early 1800s is very hard going due to the general lack of records. If you don’t know where they lived it’s a needle in a haystack. Ideally you need to know the person’s exact denomination and the townland or parish they lived in to have any chance of finding them, and even then there may not be any records for that location.

Possibly DNA testing may be a way of matching with others who have additional information about where the family originate. Family Tree DNA reportedly has more people with Ulster roots than any other company. That obviously increases the chances of finding a match. You might want to try them or, if you have already tested, you can transfer your results to them for no fee.

The North of Ireland Family History Society is running an Ulster DNA project in conjunction with FTDNA and can offer testing kits at a reduced price.  http://www.nifhs.org (Go to DNA project on the website).