I am trying to find my 3* great grandfather (Charles McCormick) and my 2* great grandfather Denis McCormick.

Bill:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

It appears that the church registered marriages and births in sequential order and assigned a number to each event in order. They then took the names of all of the people married or baptized and listed them alphabetically and showed the number assigned originally so that you could go back and see the record. For example, baptisms were from 1783-1804 and if you look at the top of the page there is an entry for a Thomas McCabe followed by 98. That tells me that Thomas was one of the earliest people baptized maybe in the first year - 1783.

My guess is that the church was in a large city possibly Dublin or Cork.

Maybe others will have a better insight.

Roger McDonnell

The images are extracts from the indexes for St. Paul's RC in Dublin city. The numbers are a reference to the original entry -  e.g. the first one is a reference to the marriage of Charles McCormick to Ann McCoy on the 13th Sepetember 1825. The witnesses were John Dennis[?] & Mary Connor (see the 3rd entry on the right page).

The 2nd image is a reference to a baptism of a Charles McCormick sometime between 1783 and 1804 although no guarantee it's the same Charles -  the reference links to a baptism of a 'Charles Maccormick' on the 16th January 1789 (5th entry left page) at St. Paul's RC to parents Thomas Maccormick and Bridget (no surname recorded). Godparents Thomas Grumbley  and Elizabeth Campbell.

Shane:

Thanks!

Roger