I have more on my John Kidney form County Cork Ireland

Hi Carole

Thank you for your query. We are glad to hear that you have made progress in your research. Now that you have a place of origin you can search the church records for further ancestors and perhaps even living relatives. Do you know what the religious denomination of your family was? Here are the Roman Catholic records that are available for both areas:    ( Middleton and Carrigtohill are neighboring parishes)

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseact…

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseact…

Unfortunately 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. Some registers for urban areas pre-dating 1800 may exist ? though often these can be fragmented- as there was an increased need in cities or larger towns to document the population. 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. 

Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.  The Anglican Record Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf

Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations: in local custody, in the Public Records of Northern Ireland (PRONI) http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm and at the Presbyterian Historical Society http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com in Belfast. PRONI has microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by the Presbyterian Historical Society. For the rest of Ireland, almost all records are in local custody. It can difficult to locate these as many congregations in the South have moved, amalgamated, or simply disappeared over the last sixty years.

Here are some other websites/ information that may be of help to you Carole:

http://www.cork-guide.ie/midleton/index.html

http://www.carrigtwohillcommunity.ie/about.htm

http://corknortheast.rootsireland.ie/

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/

http://www.corkarchives.ie/genealogy/

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

http://www.goireland.com/genealogy/county-centres/locations/cork-county…

All the best

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