Irish Rellies

[mcblondie]

Morning all,

Once again i am looking for guidance and advice from you wonderful people

As you know I am now tracing my grandmother's family the "Callaghans" from Blantyre and now Ireland as i found my granny's grandfather Michael on the census. It seems he married Frances Renwick in Old Monklands 1850, now on the census it states they are both Irish. Now I know Michael's parents are Michael and Mary (m.s. Brady) how do i go about trying to find where in Ireland they come from and how to locate birth certs for him?

Any advice would be welcome

Thanks
Katie

[Davie]

Hi Katie,
Findin' rellies in Ireland isnae an easy task.
I have a few Brady's frae ma ex- missus lot, related to the Foy's
my son was over last year but came up with nowt.
I will be over in Ireland next week, but don't think I'll have much time to check out any records.
Davie

[mcblondie]

Hi Davie,

Things are never easy eh? I've got relatives living in Enniskillen, I may ask them if they could do some rummaging around for me.

Why can't all countries have a scotlandspeople website eh? by that I mean somewhere you can just log onto and download BMD without all the hullaballoo of writing to these places for info.

Sorry i'm just a bit miffed today...

[Jockbird]

Hi Katie,

Were any of their children born in 1855? If so, get that cert now! It's just that the 1855 birth certs generally give where the parents were born as well as a fairly good 'age'...i.e not the 1,2 miss a few we find of census returns.

You could also try the IGI but it's a bit hit and miss with Irish. Also take yourself down to the Irish bit on the forum and have a wee look there as there is a lot of help with websites........and try googling their names with " " round the name followed by genealogy or Ireland and see if anything comes up.

Good luck, I've a few Irish ones myself so I can sympathise.

Better get on with some decorating now....that's what I'm meant to be doing today!

Donna
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[emanday]

Hi Katie,

Sorry but I came up with nothing in the BIVRI CD's.

I'm stuck with my Irish lot as well, but did manage to get one female birth in Carnmoney, Antrim for 1822 and her marriage in Belfast, Antrim in 1845 on the ancestryireland.com site, which is for Ulster only.

Even if you do find a potential the mother's names are very often not even recorded, as in my case!

I even got the birth entry page photocopy sent from the parish church - only the father named!

[SarahND]

Hi Katie,
I may be confused, but I thought that in the other thread we had figured out that only Frances was born in Ireland and Michael was born in E Kilbride?
The birthplace of wee Michael Jr. in 1861 may give you a hint of where in Ireland.

Michael Colligan, 6, son, born in Roshall, Ireland

Not sure how it would be pronounced, but could the place given as "Roshall" be actually Rosseeshal in Ballynakill Parish (Leitrim), Galway? That's the only one I could come up with, but I don't know much about Ireland.

Regards,
Sarah

[mcblondie]

Your are correct,

Young Michael was born in Scotland, but his father and Mother Michael Snr and his wife Mary where Irish or so i've been told by the family.

The other thing is, that I found Michael Snr and Jnr on the 1871 census and then I found another set of Michael's Snr and Jnr on another census also from Old Monklands ages are similar too so i think i may have to go back and double check that i've not got the wrong ones down on my tree that would freak me out no end.

I've promised myself a few days off of work soon (a long w/end) where i can concentrate on my info and tree and get all of it sorted out. I have so much hand written info that i need to log it on the pc and put the paperwork away.

No rest for the wicked eh?

I'm in the middle of composing a letter to the Lithy Archives requesting more documents about my Lithuanian rellies so fingers x'd. They got back to me rather quickly quoting me there rates for searching, here's hoping they're as quick sending BMD's.

[mcblondie]

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[Liz Turner]

Katie

Are you planning to come to the event on 10th March? If you are, would you send me an email containing all the info you definitely have (and where you got it from)? If you take this further before 10 March, please be sure to let us know so we don't duplicate work!

We're planning to perhaps take 2 or 3 people who need a steer in the right direction and try to suggest some sources for them to try. I can't promise that we'll be able to help you ... given the limit of time available on the day, we'll only be able to attempt a few.

Liz

[mcblondie]

Hi Liz,

What event is that? can you update me on what it is all about? Sounds interesting and I may take some time off work and join in.

Let me know.

thanks
Katie