doyles of rathdangan

Hello

A good place for you to start would be to obtain a copy of the civil record of your grandmother’s birth. This would give you both her parents’ names. The next step you could take is to obtain a record of their marriage. This will give their respective fathers names and  the place name where they resided at the time of the marriage. Civil registration records are available from the General Register Office (GRO). These start from 1864. You can access the website here: http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

Also if you were to obtain church records of these events, they could provide more information to work with. Sponsors at baptisms and witnesses at weddings would quite often be family members or close neighbours. 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 available records per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance.

Best regards Michael.

Hello Gracemonkey,

I am finalising our family tree and came across your message above (Tuesday 26th February 2013, 04:07PM). I remember visiting your Grandmother in London and I'm back in Rathdangan now, visiting her brother. My grandmother was their sister. We are all very keen to make contact. However, I'm consious that this can be daunting. I am more than happy to share the info on the family tree and then if you would like, I could connect you with her brother and closest relatives. I'm afraid I don't know how to message you directly on this site and hence the broad brushstroke information rather than sharing personal details.

Please let me know if you are interested in hearing more and how best to get in contact. Alternatively, I can share my email and social media here if you want to have that information at hand, to reach out privately.  

ALL READERS: If you know of a way for me to message Gracemonkey directly please let me know. I am unclear if she/he will receive notification of my group post.

Kind regards,

Damian  

Hi Damian,
How long are you over for? I actually live down in Cork now!
I actually wrote out a letter to Jimmy (was posting it next week!) with a brief family tree too look for more info, pics etc... and possible visit.
I actually not too sure either about contact as I've not been on the site in a while.
My email address is nattydevil4@hotmail.com

Look forward to hearing back,
Natalie