Maloney family of Roscrea

Hi David,

Thank you for your message.

As Martin was born in 1871, you should be able to find his birth record in civil registration records, as civil registration began in Ireland in 1864.

These records are available from the General Register?s Office in Dublin. Here is their website:

http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

You can search the indexes to these records online at:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

For more information on these records go to : http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/Irish-civil-registration.html

For records of births, marriages etc. prior to 1864 you will have to look at Church registers. Most Catholic records are held locally. One website which you may find useful is the Irish Times where they give an overview of what records are available in specific parishes. For Roscrea parish follow this link:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Tipperary%20North&parish=Roscrea&churchid=805

For information on Church of Ireland records check:

http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/. 

www.familysearch.org have a large collection of Church records available online. You may be lucky and find some records relating to your family here.

I did a search of the towns that you have mentioned. Clonmore is a townland in Tipperary. Unfortunately, there are 4 townlands with this name, each of which are in a different civil parish. (Check www.logainm.ie )

I did a search for Rathdowney also. This is a Catholic parish in Co. Laois, which boarders Tipperary. Here is another link to the Irish Times that shows you a map of where Rathdowney is. If you click on the parish you will see what records are available there:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/rcmaps/laoisrc.htm

You could also try searching in the 1901/1911 census records to see if you can find any family that may have remained in the area. You can search these here:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

Some other websites that you may find useful are:

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm

The US National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/

Genealogy links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/tipperary/index.html

Alternatively, you could try contacting the North Tipperary Genealogy Centre for assistance. However a fee may apply. Here is their email:

tipperarynorthgenealogy@eircom.net

Kind regards,

Genealogy Support