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Hi, I'm looking for any information on a Mr Patrick Quirk, Married to Cecilia Quirk { date unknown } , I know of only one son at present with the name of Michael Quirk { born 1859 in County Galway } , I know Michael moved to Stockport, England sometime before 1883 as Michael married Sabina King in Stockport , England in 1883.

I cannot find any referance to Patrick Quirk coming to England, on Michael's marriage certificate in 1883 Patrick is listed as Deceased.

any kind of lead would be much appriciated

regards

Steve Kay

Cheshire. England

 

stevekay20

Saturday 19th Jan 2013, 11:28PM

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  • Hi sir do you know what church patrick was a member of and any more information that you can find out about patrick would be great. The town patrick was from and any thing on Cecilia Quirk. I have a list of sites that you can try and have a look on you mite have more luck than me. good luck

     

    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 Also try looking at this.TITHE APPLOTMENT BOOKS / GRIFFTH?S VALUATION You could try checking the land records calledthe Tithe Applotment Books (1823-38) http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp or the later Griffith's Valuation (1848-64) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ or the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) https://familysearch.org/ The Tithe Applotment List might be of use to you, or at least interesting for you. These listsconstitute the only nationwide survey for the period, and are valuable because the heaviest burdenof the tithes to the Established Church, the Church of Ireland, fell on the poorest, for whom fewother records survive. The information in the Tithes is quite basic, typically consisting of townlandname, landholder's name, area of land and tithes payable. Many Books also record the landlord'sname and an assessment of the economic productivity of the land. The tax payable was based on

    Connaught Ireland

    Thursday 31st Jan 2013, 12:47PM
  • Hi

    I'm afraid information is a little thin on the ground, I do know Patrick, Michael & Cecillia would have been members of the Roman Catholic Church , I only know Michael Quirk was born in Co Galway in 1857 / 1858  from the English 1911 census,  I've no real good leads at all, I've just searched the Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958 & over 1500 records returned for Patrick Quirk, ok I can discount some but it's still pretty daungnting to say the least.

    I'm guessing Patrick would have been born sometime around 1833, give or take 5 years either side !

    I've looked at some of the links & found without any town / birth / death  information it's quite difficult to narrow down a record, thankfully I don't do " giving up " so I'll keep on trying to find that elusive lead. Somehow I'll need to narrow this down, a bit of " luck of the Irish " wouldn't go amis right now.

    Thank you for the information & lnks I'll post again if I have any better luck.

    regards

    Steve

     

     

    stevekay20

    Tuesday 5th Feb 2013, 11:03PM

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