Please help in tracing elusive parents & ancestors for William Kelly, b.c 1808, Aghavea,.seems to have left as a young man,at one time, married Hanna(Honoria?) Horgan or Carey? Meantime,, hehad enlisted with Inniskelling Dragoons,27th Regiment - serving in Barbados and Ireland. He was sent to the Cape of Good Hope, S.Africa 1835 & remained there on discharge.Joined the Cape Mounted Rifles, Pensioned 1871. Messenger of the Court,Grahamstown ,1865. six children. Descendants in S.Africa, well found... but blankness, sadly, for his full Irish childhood and background. Thank you. PK
ViniVici
Thursday 22nd Sep 2016, 10:20PMMessage Board Replies
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There are very few records in Ireland in the early 1800s, so your search won't be easy. You don’t say what denomination William was. Aghavea Church of Ireland records start in 1815 and the RC in 1862. So if he was born in Aghavea c 1808, there’s unlikely to be any record of him from those sources.
Kelly is a reasonably common name in Co. Fermanagh. There are 280 of them in the 1901 census. Mostly RC but some Church of Ireland.
DNA testing might be the only way of linking in with any descendants still there today.
Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Friday 23rd Sep 2016, 07:38AM