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Hello. My great, great grandfather Alexander Todd was born around 1856 to William Todd and Mary Anderson in Banbridge Co Down. He migrated to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1878. A number of his siblings also migrated Samuel, Thomas, Margretta & Hugh. He named his houses in Brisbane "Cappagh". Any information about the family in Ireland is appreciated. Thank you

Tuesday 22nd Dec 2015, 09:33AM

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    What looks as though it might be the marriage between Wm Todd and Mary Anderson was registered in Banbridge 1847 Vol 2 page 397. (Indexes to Irish civil registration).  The marriage cert should also be on-line on the GRONI site in Belfast but I can’t find it. So may just need to order a copy from GRO Roscommon.

    You can order a photocopy of the certificate from GRO Roscommon for €4 (euros).  http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Apply-for-Certificates.aspx

    You have to download and print off the form. Then either post or fax it back to them. You can’t e-mail it to them. However if you want them to e-mail the cert to back to you, they will do that, so tick the relevant box.

    Put the reference details on the form (anywhere). Don’t worry about leaving some boxes blank. As long as GRO have the location, name(s), year, quarter (where there is one), volume and page number they should find it.

    Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church which should be on the certificate, (unless it was a Registry Office marriage). That church may be the place to look for her baptism and that of any siblings.

    Cappagh is a townland of 476 acres in the parish of Annaclone, near Banbridge. There’s a William Todd listed there in Griffiths Valuation of 1863. He was on plot 20 which was a 26 acre farm. That’s on the modern Burnside Rd. The revaluation records show the farm passing from William Todd to Andrew Todd in 1902 though those dates can be out by a year or two. William probably died around 1900 or 1901. (Possible death on GRONI on 14.2.1900 aged 83).

    https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk

     

    John & Samuel Todd lived nearby and so are probably related.

    http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

     

    1901 census:

    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Annaclone/Cappagh/1207340/

    1911:

    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Annaclone/Cappagh/208798/

    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Annaclone/Cappagh…

    Andrew Todd is still shown as the owner of the farm in 1929 when that series of records stops.

    You might find further information in PRONI, eg they have this holding: D2426/37

    One of two boxes of miscellaneous title deeds, leases, conveyances, sale particulars, etc, including a coloured survey of Cappagh, Co. Down, by Alexander Richmond, 1838, and certified copies of 1851 census particulars of the Gray family of Ballynewport, Co. Down.

     

     

    Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

    Tuesday 22nd Dec 2015, 11:10AM
  • Here are the baptisms of William and Mary's 10 children, all in CAPPY, Co. Down:

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    Sarah Todd

    Date of Birth:

    16-Nov-1849

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    07-Feb-1850

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Female

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    John Todd

    Date of Birth:

    19-Jul-1851

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    12-Nov-1851

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Male

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    William Todd

    Date of Birth:

    19-May-1853

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    08-Sep-1853

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Male

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    Alexander Todd

    Date of Birth:

    02-May-1855

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    06-Jul-1855

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Male

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    Hugh Anderson Todd

    Date of Birth:

    10-Aug-1857

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    04-Nov-1857

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Male

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    Thomas Hutchinson Todd

    Date of Birth:

    02-Jun-1859

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    17-Oct-1859

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Male

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    Roseanne Todd

    Date of Birth:

    15-Feb-1861

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    20-Jun-1861

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Female

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    Samuel Todd

    Date of Birth:

    06-Nov-1864

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    30-Aug-1865

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Male

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    Andrew Todd

    Date of Birth:

    10-May-1867

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    17-Jan-1868

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Male

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

    Church Baptism Record

    Name:

    Margretta Todd

    Date of Birth:

    16-Nov-1869

     

     

    Date of Baptism:

    03-Jan-1871

    Address:

    Cappy

    Parish/District:

    ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN

    Gender:

    Female

    County

    Co. Down

     

    Denomination:

     

    Father:

    William Todd

    Mother:

    Mary Anderson

    Occupation:

     

    Sponsor 1 /
    Informant 1:

     

    Sponsor 2 /
    Informant 2:

     

     

     

    Tuesday 22nd Dec 2015, 06:55PM
  • Elwyn and dancer1951

    Thank you, thank you, thank you.  I so very much appreciate all the information you have given me!!!

    This is further than I've been able to get using ancestry.com .  I'm marrying an Irishman next year so I've been trying to connect more with my Irish ancestry. 

    Have a lovely day - you have made me smile!!!

    Tina

    Wednesday 23rd Dec 2015, 02:10AM
  • Ah, delighted we were able to help!

     

    Wednesday 23rd Dec 2015, 09:06PM

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