Hello;
I have been reviewing Microfilm #02484/11, Register for the Killaloe Diocese, Kilmurry-McMahon parish on the National Library of Ireland website. I believe a couple pages where skipped in the microfilming - pages 13 -14 as marked in handwriting at the top of the page. The records jump from page 12 to page 15, and the dates from Nov 1847 to September 1848. I was wondering if these pages are on file anywhere else and can be accessed another way? I am looking for a record (possibly) for a John O'Neil baptised in May, 1848!!!
Thank you,
Holly Barton
SHBarton
Thursday 18th Feb 2021, 06:41PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi Polly,
There are three "John O'Neil" registered for the District of Kildysart between 1835 and 1855.
John - Baptism May 6th 1838. Father: John - Mother: Bridget McMahon. Sponsors: Michael McMahon and Johanna
John - Baptism March 23rd 1841. Father: Michael - Mother: Margaret Moloney. Sponsors: Michael and Johanna Cuggeran
John - Baptism May 27th 1854. Father: Patrick - Mother: Bridget Bran. Sponsors: Bran and Bid Creagh
Credit: www.rootsireland.ie - subscription site
Regards,
McCoy
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Holly:
I went to the Clare County library site and they have a number of transcriptions of RC church records. The Kilmurry McMahon/Killofin records were transcribed in 2019.
https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/bmd/kilmur…
Below are the notes from the transcriber and it appears she encountered the same issues as you did. You could contact the parish https://www.killaloediocese.ie/parish/kilmurry-mcmahon/ to see if they know but likely the pages were lost well before the early 1950s when the NLI mictofilmed the register.
Transcriber Notes:
There are some gaps where pages may have fallen out of the register or maybe the register was mislaid for a while. Also, recording of births is very uneven at times: one month will have over twenty baptisms, the next month only two. I can see why these registers are not relied on very much to give exact figures for the effects of the Great Famine. But this register is a very, very valuable historical document indeed, showing as it does the numbers baptised in the early years of that famine. And, most unusually, it contains a register of deaths between 1844–1848. There are just 8 pages (pp 137–144).
Roger McDonnell
Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
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Thank you, I'll look into both of these leads. Writing the parish was next on the list. Wouldn't be genealogy if the EXACT PAGES I need have just disappeared over time! : ). Was just hoping....!
Holly Barton
SHBarton