Spratt - County Fermanagh

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your message.

Do you know what part of Co. Fermanagh the Spratt family originated from? Do you have any documentation that mentions a townland/parish/village or town? You really need to try and narrow it down to a parish so that you may  look in parish Church records.

As I suggested in some of my responses to your other messages, as good place to start may be thir immigration information. Hopefully a place of origin in Fermanagh will be listed. Here is the link to the National Library and Archives:

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html

However, you should also bare in mind that, given the dates of births that you have provided, it may be difficult to find early church records for the family. The reality of finding documentation pertaining to births/baptisms/marriages/deaths in Ireland prior to 1800 ? particularly in rural areas ? is that they simply may not exist. Please also note that the Church of Ireland was the official church of the country and therefore the bulk of information that does survive for earlier periods is often from these registers.

Some links for Church of Ireland Records are as follows:

http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/

http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history/family_history_key_sources.htm

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Kind regards,

Genealogy Support