Carleton from Wexford

The first thing that you can do sir is have a look on this web site, this site is all about the people that went to south africa over the years.

http://ancestry24.com/the-irish-in-south-africa/

The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml Also if you know what church that they belonged too you could look at up here best of luck with your seach. Births/Baptisms/Marriages/Deaths ? pre1790-1800 ? The reality of finding documentationpertaining to births/baptisms/marriages/deaths in Ireland prior to 1800 ? particularly in rural areas? is that they simply may not exist. Some registers for urban areas pre-dating 1800 may exist ?though often these can be fragmented- as there was an increased need in cities or larger towns todocument the population. Please also note that the Church of Ireland was the official church of thecountry and therefore the bulk of information that does survive for earlier periods is often fromthese registers. ROMAN CATHOLIC: Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is -http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of availablerecords per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possibleassistance. CHURCH OF IRELAND: Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are publicrecords. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyedin the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, althoughsome are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church BodyLibrary in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/. The Anglican Record Projectis has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf PRESBYTERIAN: Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations: in local custody, in the PublicRecords of Northern Ireland (PRONI) http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm and atthe Presbyterian Historical Society http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com in Belfast. PRONIhas microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by thePresbyterian Historical Society. For the rest of Ireland, almost all records are in local custody. It candifficult to locate these as many congregations in the South have moved, amalgamated, or simplydisappeared over the last sixty years.

Hi

I got a baptism for Esther Carltan in 1823 but no location shown in www.rootireland.ie

Check www.familysearch .org for carlton and wexford & check the list showing of births and marriages etc.  I found in Tithe valuation of 1829 a William and Widow Carlton both renting 1 acre 3 roots each in Toome Camolin. Also Robert Carlton in Priory lane Newross in Griffith Valuation 1850 as shown in attachment. I know a Paddy Carleton in Mallow who had forbears in Clonea in Waterford and US connections. The spelling of the name is interchangeable .

Seamus

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Hi there

Thanks for the reply - only just seen this now for the first time. I am aware of the website Ancestry24 and was the business manager of it for 9 years and am a proffesional genealogist of over 25 years in the South African industry.

Thank you for the recommendations - I was certainly follow them up.

best wishes

Trixie

Hi Seamus

Thanks for your reply - the town of Toome seems to keep cropping up and Mary Jane being born around 1829 / 1830  could mean that her mother probably died in childbirth and thus nothing is know of her mother. The boys name of William is a strong family name as well.

I will follow up on your suggestions and hopefully will hit the jackpot.

regards

Trixie