Magner-Barrett relatives

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:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Cork%20East&parish=Mallow&churchid=78

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