Missing Records for Kilmurry-McMahon Parish

Hi Polly,

There are three "John O'Neil" registered for the District of Kildysart between 1835 and 1855.

John - Baptism May 6th 1838. Father: John - Mother: Bridget McMahon. Sponsors: Michael McMahon and Johanna

John - Baptism March 23rd 1841. Father: Michael - Mother: Margaret Moloney. Sponsors: Michael and Johanna Cuggeran

John - Baptism May 27th 1854. Father: Patrick - Mother: Bridget Bran. Sponsors: Bran and Bid Creagh

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Regards,

Holly:

I went to the Clare County library site and they have a number of transcriptions of RC church records. The Kilmurry McMahon/Killofin records were transcribed in 2019. 

https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/bmd/kilmur…

Below are the notes from the transcriber and it appears she encountered the same issues as you did. You could contact the parish https://www.killaloediocese.ie/parish/kilmurry-mcmahon/  to see if they know but likely the pages were lost well before the early 1950s when the NLI mictofilmed the register.

Transcriber Notes:

There are some gaps where pages may have fallen out of the register or maybe the register was mislaid for a while. Also, recording of births is very uneven at times: one month will have over twenty baptisms, the next month only two. I can see why these registers are not relied on very much to give exact figures for the effects of the Great Famine. But this register is a very, very valuable historical document indeed, showing as it does the numbers baptised in the early years of that famine. And, most unusually, it contains a register of deaths between 1844–1848. There are just 8 pages (pp 137–144).

Roger McDonnell

Thank you, I'll look into both of these leads.  Writing the parish was next on the list.  Wouldn't be genealogy if the EXACT PAGES I need have just disappeared over time! : ). Was just hoping....! 

Holly Barton

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