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Hi Irene,

Thank you for your message.

It may be quite difficult to find information on these people without a more specific location of origin. Most Irish record sources- church records, land records, census records- are based on specific locations. Until you know a specific location within Ireland, preferably a parish or place name, it may be difficult to do anything more with these records.

Perhaps you could try searching for them at https://familysearch.org/   This is a huge database of records compiled by the Church of the Latter Day Saints. If you can find any of the people you have mentioned in it, it may give you a place name.

You could also try searching for the fathers? in Griffith?s Valuation, which is a land survey dating from 1848-1864. However, this gives no genealogical information so if multiple results are returned it will be hard to confirm which are relevant to your search. You can search it here:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/     

As you know that Mary came from Limerick it may be an idea to contact the Limerick Genealogy Centre for assistance. However, there may be a fee for their services. Here are their contact details:

Limerick Genealogy,

Lissanalta House,

Dooradoyle Road,

Dooradoyle,

Co. Limerick.

Phone: +353 61 496542   Email: research@limerickgenealogy.com

You should also check out the Genealogy Links website for a good list of genealogy links for Co. Limerick. Here is the link:

http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/limerick/index.html

Some other websites which may be helpful 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 National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

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

I hope that this information is helpful and that you are able to establish specific places of orign. Once you have this more avenues of research will open up to you. Best of luck!

Kind regards,

Genealogy Support