Stewart Ancestry

Dear geddes

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Can I assume that your ancestor was Church of Ireland? If this was the case, COI records for the parish of Clogher begin in 1763. This is early in comparison to records of the corresponding Roman Catholic parish of Clogher, where records don?t begin until 1856 for baptisms and 1825 for marriages.  Unfortunately the parish records for Clogher are not available on rootsirleand.ie.   This link will give you details of the records catalogued by the Public Record Office in Northern Ireland: http://www.proni.gov.uk/index_to_church_of_ireland_records-2.pdf

The Representative Church Body Library in Dublin is in the process of providing online access to parish records but so far of the 12 parishes available, Clogher is not one of them:

http://ireland.anglican.org/about/168

You should contact the Library here (though the staff can?t conduct research for you) to see if they have any idea when the records might become available:

The Library is located opposite no. 32 Braemor Park.

Postal Address: Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14

This article by Claire Santry will clarify things further:

http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/trace-ancestors.html

Best wishes

Clare Doyle

Genealogy Support 

Further to your post of 20 July 2014, I'm also researching Stewarts in Clogher. Which Clogher church are your Stewarts attached to and which townlands did they live in? Perhaps we overlap?

Hello Ian

I was interested to see your enquiry about a Samuel Irwin Stewart, as I have an ancestor with exactly the same name from Clogher, however I understood that my relative was born in 1836 and he died in 1915 (bur. Clogher). I

thanks

Liz