Looking for Ledwidge

 HI Graham & Miriam, the name Ledwidge is associated with the area of Slane in County Meath, it is an unusual name and there is a Francis Ledwidge Museum in memory of the poet of that name whos was killed in the first world war. The museum is on the Drogehda road out of Slane at a bad bend and is not easy to see as you approach that way, it is a small cottage and does not have a genealogy section that I am aware of. I live in Drogheda and learned his poetry at school, the library local history section in Navan may assist also, see https://www.meath.ie/council/council-services/libraries/local-studies-and-family-history 

However I see the marriage is on Roots Ireland in April 1813 he is John Ledwich but no other info except witness William Mulherin and Anne Carroll, oddly this marriage in St Pauls, Arran Quay, Dublin city is not on the church records on the NLI site here, https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ you sign in but it is free, on Dublin church records on it mainly except Kerry and some of Cork. You will find both names and variants come back automatically. The original record should be in the National Library in Dublin centre (Kildare Street) however there appear to be records on Roots Ireland that they do not possess. The online registers seem to me to only have an index of the marriages and I see a John Ledwidge among a few Ledwidges on the extereme right of the index page with a reference, they may be able to throw light on it, see https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0501 

I found a birth of an Elizabeth Barker but it was a church of Ireland birth and mother was Boylan I think, then I thought if she married as an RC she may have been baptised prior to marriage and I found a different Elizabeth baptised in 1813 but no exact date and not the same one as the mother in this case is Kane, you can see them in the Irish Genealogy site. I see another name for St Pauls is Glasnevin  and this is about 3 miles north where the main graveyard for Dublin was back in the day, they now conduct tours of it, not sure how it is fixed for burial registers and the tours are pre booked, never been on one but they are supposed to be very good, a lot of the great and good buried there and some of our revolutionary heros also. In case it intersests you https://www.glasnevinmuseum.ie/ see they have a genealogy section too and 1.5 million burial records, now we know were the bodies are hidden, only back to 1828 though. 

The online church records for that parish on the registers nli site go well back into the 1700s (unusual in Ireland for RC, penal laws) so if you have the patience to read you may find something of note. 

Enjoy you visit, the National Library is walk in I think and can be busy, you can search the local newspapers online free etc but in 1813 I do'nt think there are too many survivors. 

Feel free to post again in case you want some advice but the responses only up date once in 24 hours.

Pat

Thank you Pat and Miriam, for your help. I may try Trawling through the Parish regs see what I can find!

Regards Graham