My G G Grandmother (Bridget Magner nee Barrett) emigrated to NZ in 1874 shortly after they were married, around the same time her father (John Barrett) and brother (Edward) stone mason emigrated to Boston USA. Edward had a son who was a stenographer and communicated with Bridget's son (Wilfred) in ANZAC div. WW1.
I am very interested to find what family they both left behind in Ireland and also Bridget's brother in USA.
If you have info at all willing to swop NZ info.
Bridget & John Magner had 10 children in NZ. John Magner (Killavullen) was Irish Imperial Army and Maori War Veteran NZ.
regards
Lorraine Beaton
Friday 19th Apr 2013, 10:11AM
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Hi Lorraine,
Thank you for your message and your kind offer to share information. I hope that someone with information on the family makes a connection with you.
Did you know that civil registration began in Ireland in 1864, so you should eb able to find records relating to the family that stayed behind 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 online at:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347
You could also try looking at church records. 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.Rahan is part of Mallow Roman Catholic parish:
You can see from this link that Mallow Heritage Centre have copies of the records. Here is their email address, please note that a fee may apply though: mallowheritagecentre@gmail.com
Also, Irish Genealogy have recently begun a project to upload church records to their websites free of charge. So far with regards to Cork, only Catholic records from the Diocese of Cork and Ross have been uploaded. Mallow does not fall under this diocese but it still may be no harm to search the records in case the family moved to different parishes etc. You can search these here:
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/
Have you tried looking in the 1901/1911 census records for the family? They can give lots of useful information:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
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
Failte Romhat: www.failteromhat.com
Family Search: www.familysearch.org
Genealogy Links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/cork/index.html
Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.
Kind regards,
Genealogy Support
Tuesday 28th May 2013, 11:19AM