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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cavan => Topic started by: linden on Saturday 27 December 08 18:49 GMT (UK)
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The surviving 1821 census for Cavan is fairly extensive but I haven't found my Leddy family . So I wondered if anyone can help me approach it from a different angle .
Does anyone know which Cavan parishes are MISSING from the 1821 census ?
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Googling '1821 census co cavan' brings up lots of sites including this one:
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcav2/1821Census.html
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Oh dear , there are a lot of them !
I have had the Cavan archives look at parish records for the county and they didn't turn up there either . I guess if I could also discover which parishrecords were missing it might narrow the field .
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You could try making a list of all the parishes and then crossing off the ones that are available (then take the ones that are left and do searches on Google just to double-check that they aren't still in existance). For details on townlands and parishes in Ireland see www.thecore.com/seanruad (be sure to change default setting from exact match).
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Thanks Aghadowey .
The National Archives in Dublin suggested from the naming pattern , that my family might have come from Killeshandra .
Cavan Archives looked for the baptism of Lawrence Leddy in the 1820's but they didn't find him , so I'm beginning to think I will be unlucky .
I've thought of spending a day there , but I can't think what I would be able to find .