I am looking for a possible marriage record for Daniel Mahoney (son of James and Honora "Norrie" Hickey Mahoney) and his wife Catharine Sullivan perhaps between 1840-1855. They emmigrated to America and had four sons born between 1856 and 1864. Daniel was born in Ireland in 1824. Catharine was born in 1827. I do not know her parents' names, but believe she had a brother, Eugene, born in abt. 1829. He also emmigrated.
mkbailgilb1959
Tuesday 14th May 2013, 07:22PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi,
Thank you very much for your message.
Unfortunately, it may be difficult to find records without a more specific place of origin. Civil registration did not begin in Ireland until 1864 so prior to this marriages would have been recorded by the local parish church which is why you really need to know the name of the parish where the wedding took place to know where to look for the record.
There are some places online where you can look, hopefully you will be lucky and find some record of the family that will help establish parish of origin:
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ have begun a project to upload Irish church records to their site free of charge. However so far only Catholic records from Cork city and parts of the county have been uploaded so far.
www.familysearch.org has a huge database of genealogical records including some church records for Ireland.
www.rootsireland.ie have a large collection of Irish Church records, however you have to pay to use this site.
Kind regards,
Genealogy Support
Monday 17th Jun 2013, 02:33PM