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Hi Luan,

Thank you for your message. Civil registration began in Ireland in 1864, so you should be able to find your granddad and his brothers? birth record in civil records.  Civil records are available from the General Register?s Office in Dublin. Here is their website:

http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

You can search the indexes to these records up to 1958 online at:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

Irish Genealogy Tool-kit has a great section on Irish Civil records explaining what is in them and where to access them:

http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/Irish-civil-registration.html

You could also check in Church records from Newry parish for more information on the family. Most Catholic records are held locally so you may need to write to the local parish priest for possible assistance. One website that you may find useful is the Irish Times where they give an overview of what records are available in specific parishes. It also shows you where copies of the records are available. For Newry parish, follow this link:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Down&parish=Newry&churchid=455

Most surviving Church of Ireland records 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. Here are their websites: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ and http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42

Lists of these surviving registers can also be found at the National Library of Ireland.

Catholic and Church of Ireland records from Dublin city have been uploaded to http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ free of charge. If any births/marriages took place in the city there should be record here.

Have you already tried searching in the 1901/1911 census records for the family? These can give lots of useful information.  http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

Also, I did a search for Rooney?s in Newry in Griffith?s Valuation. This is a property valuation survey that was carried out in Ireland 1848-64.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=29&Submit.y=16&Submit=Submit&familyname=rooney&firstname=&baronyname=&countyname=DOWN&unionname=&parishname=NEWRY

Some other websites that you may find useful 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

Family Search: www.familysearch.org

Dublin Heritage: www.dublinheritage.ie

Genealogy links Down: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/down/index.html

Genealogy links Dublin: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/dublin/index.html

It may also be an idea to join the Newry parish page and post your message there. Here is a link to the page:

http://www.irelandxo.com/group/newry-down

I hope some of this is helpful.

Kind regards,

Genealogy Support

I have the same problem as well buddy. But thanks to you Emma, I definitely learned some sort of things. The links were very useful. Thanks again for helping!
 

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