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My 3rd great granduncle died in Dublin around 1847.  Daniel's child Thomas Martin was born on March 15, 1847 in Dublin. Daniel was possibly a printer in Dublin but may have also been a coachman. Unfortunately, Daniel's wife (name unknown) died shortly after Thomas' birth and Daniel apparently died in Dublin within six months of Thomas' birth. Shortly before Daniel died, Thomas was sent to live with my third great grandma (Bridget Martin Taaffe) who was Daniel's sister and the baby's aunt.  I  do not think Bridget was living in Dublin; she may have been living in Drogheda. 

I assume that Daniel married in Dublin around June of 1846.  According to family stories, Thomas was the only child. 

Ultimately, the young Thomas Martin emigrated to Keyport, NJ shorly before 1870 in the same area as his first cousin Anne Taaffe (my 2nd great grandma) had settled.  They all had large happy families.

I would like to find a birth record for Thomas Martin in Dublin on March 15, 1847 and possibly learn the name of his mother. I would also love to find out Daniel Martin's specific birth and death information. 

Thanks so much

Diana Tierney

Sunday 24th Feb 2013, 06:10PM

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  • Try these links you mite be able to find his birthcert on these sites.

     

    Births/Baptisms/Marriages/Deaths ? pre1790-1800 ? The reality of finding documentationpertaining 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 todocument the population. Please also note that the Church of Ireland was the official church of thecountry and therefore the bulk of information that does survive for earlier periods is often fromthese registers. ROMAN CATHOLIC:Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is -http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of availablerecords per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possibleassistance. CHURCH OF IRELAND:Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are publicrecords. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyedin the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, althoughsome are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church BodyLibrary 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 Projectis has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf PRESBYTERIAN:Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations: in local custody, in the PublicRecords of Northern Ireland (PRONI) http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm and atthe Presbyterian Historical Society http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com in Belfast. PRONIhas microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by thePresbyterian Historical Society. For the rest of Ireland, almost all records are in local custody. It candifficult to locate these as many congregations in the South have moved, amalgamated, or simplydisappeared over the last sixty years. Also sir try looking on these sites too. Ellis Island:http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp Castlegarden:http://www.castlegarden.org/ US National Archives/Immigration info:http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/ The Boston Pilot; From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a?Missing Friends? column with advertisements from people looking for ?lost? friends and relativeswho had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 recordsis available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad thatappeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/

     

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