Dear Province of Munster: I have been trying to find my great Grandfather, Patrick Kane, born around 1839 to parents Maurice Kane and Mary Catherine Mullen. I do not know their Parish, County or Province of birth, however I am hopeful about finding information on Patrick by posting messages on all Province Message Boards in Ireland. Recently I found seven Maurice Kanes in Griffith's Valuation and have also posted messages on those Parish Message Boards.
Maurice was born around 1800 and married Mary Catherine around 1838. They immigrated with Patrick to Quebec, Canada in the mid to late 1850s. Maurice was a farmer and they came to Canada during the potato famine. They settled in Bristol, Quebec and I recently was excited to find their tombstone at St Brigit's Parish in Bristol. However, the St Brigit's records do not show their birth place only their Country of birth.
I believe that with the help from the Message Boards and all the people involved with Ireland Reaching Out, that I will eventually find my great Grandfather's place of birth.
I will be visiting Ireland with my husband in June and look forward to our travels across Ireland and to visiting my ancestors' Country of birth and hopefully place of birth.
Regards
Darleen (Cain) Finnamore
Ottawa Canada
Sunday 10th Feb 2013, 05:10PM
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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. Ellis Island:http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp Castlegarden:http://www.castlegarden.org/ US National Archives/Immigration info:http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/
Thursday 11th Apr 2013, 01:47PM