Kirby's of Cork and Cobh

Dear Jenni

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. You seem to have gathered quite a body of information about the family already, well done!

Out of interest have you used ancestry.com to search for instances of the family name in public member trees or messages?

The Representative Church Body Library hold CoI records in Dublin. It might be of interest for you to look at their website to see what they hold outside of the parish registers themselves:
http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42

Let us know if you learn anything new

Best wishes
Clare Doyle
Genealogy Support

Hi Clare

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I am aware of the RCB library and had been in email contact with them before my first visit to Ireland last month. It was because of their help that I finally discovered my Kirbys came from Cork. I visited RCB on 7 August this year and made a breakthrough!

I was disappointed not to be able to take a (non flash) photo of the parish record showing the 1823 marriage of my William Kirby and Euphemia Talbot, but was very happy even to see it. I could see from the state of the parchments that others looking there might not be so lucky.

One of the staff did let me photograph some pages in a 21st century book (Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough) from the library with one tiny paragraph about the COI minister Rev Edward Kirby who married this couple. The brief bio said he was born in about 1795 in Cork. This would appear to be based on his age in the Trinity College Dublin records. I have independently confirmed that this Edward Kirby is the brother of my ancestor William Kirby, and of Emily Kirby who died in Liverpool in 1855. I have found their father Edward Kirby (senior, an attorney at law) referred to in the EPPI records (www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/) and hope the archivist will soon respond to my recent email. Little by little I am making some progress after years of wondering!

So thank you for now from Australia

Jenni

Hi Jenni

Keep us up to date with your progress!
Best wishes
Clare

Hi Clare and Jenni

I am new to this site and this is my first letter.  I also have a connection with Kirby's and Cork.

My gg grandfather was Michael Kirby, he married Margaret Cogan I think in 1843 in Cork.  Their children were James 1843, Patrick 1844, Edmund 1845 and Margaret 1848 (my g grandmother). 

Margaret married John Costello in 1870 in Cork.  Their children were John Francis 1874, Patrick Joseph 1877-1904, Michael James 1881, Thomas Michael 1883-1956, and Margaret Mary 1885-1892.

My grandfather was Thomas Michael who married in Chorlton on Medlock, Lancs and immigrated to Aus in 1908.

Does anybody know anything about his brothers John Francis and Michael James Costello?  I think Michael married Mary Lynch and had one son Michael (1911 census).  I can't pick up John anywhere I can be sure of.  Would love to find descendants of my two great uncles.

Thank you also from Australia.

June.

Hi June

So sorry. Don't know anything about a Michael Kirby connected with my family. Have Edward, Emily and William. Do you know where in Cork? Or are you not so sure of Cork?

I am in Perth WA.

Have you looked at the links on the Cork page at Ireland Reaching Out?  I had a month sub to RootsIreland and didn't really find anyone of mine, but have been mapping out the families and tying this into the Tithes and Griffiths. Process of exclusion really. 

Best wishes

Jenni 

Hi June again

came across this. Have you seen it?

d. 22nd inst., Ellen KIRBY w/o Michael KIRBY, age 40, native of Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland

a newspaper notice in March 27, 1878, The Daily Telegraph, Saint John, New Brunswick (presumably Canada)

http://durrushistory.com//?s=kirby&search=Go

This is a blog about north west Cork. \

Jenni