EDWARD STEWART

Sam,

I find it hard to say with any certainty. It looks to begin “Wa” but I wouldn’t like to guess beyond that.  The version on the irishgenealogy site is just a copy made by a clerk in GRO.  You could look at the original which is on the GRONI site (but will cost £2.50 to view). The handwriting should be different and may be clearer.

Hello Sam,  

Just like Elwyn, I find it hard to read but I think Edward's Father's name is Warren rather than the German name Waren (Meaning Loyal.)

All the Best

Peter

Thank you for your reply. I have found it.

Still can't find his birth certificate though. I need that and his mother's name.

It is so frustrating at times.

Thanks anyway.

Sam

I assume you also found Edward’s first marriage in 1854?

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1854/09474/5433496.pdf

Edward was evidently born in the 1830s or earlier, so that’s long before the start of birth registration in Ireland (1864), so there’s no birth certificate to be found. You can search church baptism records to find his birth (and mother’s name if recorded). Those records are not on-line so far as I am aware. You haven’t said what denomination Edward was but there are 2 Stewart households in Ballyknock in the 1901 census and both are Church of Ireland. If he was also COI then there’s a copy of Moira parish’s records in PRONI in Belfast.  This is what they hold:

Baptisms, 1725-56 and 1823-71; marriages, 1725-56 and 1823-45; burials, 1725-56 and 1823-77; vestry minutes, 1758-1899; minute book, 1725-55; accounts, 1745-8.

Extracts from parish registers, 1784-1860.