Farrell

Statutory registration of births only started in Ireland in 1864 so for Peter Farrell you would need to rely on church records. You don’t say what denomination the family were but I’ll assume RC.

You’ll find some birth and marriage records on rootsireland (subscription), and the records are also on-line free on the NLI site. However unless you know which parish the family came from, you are faced with about 30 sets of records to search for Tyrone alone.

The RC parish records are on-line free on the National Library site:

http://registers.nli.ie/parishes

Note that although the National Library site has many parish records, it doesn’t have them all. A few are still held by the parish, for one reason or another.

Blue:

Adding on to the info that Elwyn provided, I checked out Roots Ireland from 1842-1860 in Co. Tyrone. There were no baptismal records for a Peter Farrell with a father Peter. Roots only has records for 19 of the 35 RC parishes in Co. Tyrone. Also there are at least seven RC parishes in Co. Tyrone where records start after 1850.

Roger McDonnell

Hi

This is a link to 1901 Census which lists Peter Farrell a Widower aged 70, a Shoemaker residing as a lodger with Gallagher Family at Ballygawley, Tyrone.  http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001183060/

Dosnt appear on 1911 census and cannot locate a Death record between 1901 / 1911.

Regards

Hi

This is a link to 1901 Census which lists Peter Farrell a Widower aged 70, a Shoemaker residing as a lodger with Gallagher Family at Ballygawley, Tyrone.  http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001183060/

Dosnt appear on 1911 census and cannot locate a Death record between 1901 / 1911.

Regards

Hi Thanks for the replies

Yes Peter Farrell jr was buried Roman Catholic in Australia. The death certificate is incomplete, so I do not have a date he arrived in Australia, it also has a birth place of Bendigo, this is also not right. This does not match the wedding certificate.(birth place Tyrone) The death cert was not filled in by relatives, which is why I have conflicting information. I was following the Australian trail thinking he was born in Australia (death cert) Confusing, but I'm sure I have the right certificates as he lived in an isolated part of Australia. The children then match the death cert and their births match the wedding cert. The wife on the death cert matches the wedding cert. So they belong to the same person. It does not help that there is wrong info on these certificates. I have to figure out which bits are wrong.