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Title: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: HugoBeauchamp on Saturday 13 July 13 13:54 BST (UK)
Looking for suggestions to see which RC parish might hold a record of the baptism of one of my father's cousins who was born in November 1900.  The family lived on Upper Dorset Street and the other child born nearly two years earlier, while the family were still in Dorset St, was baptised at the Pro-Cathedral. I have also enquired at other parishes - Aughrim St, Berkeley Rd and St Michan's/St Paul's Arran Quay - to see if their registers might have this illusive entry but without success.

Edit - Nothing on RootsIreland either

Anyone have any thoughts/ideas please?

H
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: dermo on Saturday 13 July 13 15:22 BST (UK)
Have you found the civil birth record?  I recently discovered that a relative who I believed was born in Kildare, where she lived all her life and where her siblings were born, was actually born in Dublin.
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: eadaoin on Saturday 13 July 13 21:39 BST (UK)
How about St Agatha? N William St. (used to be part of Pro-Cathedral, but constituted a parish in 1860s or so.

I think SeanMcDermott St was part of Pro-Cathedral at that time.

eadaoin
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: mickyogue on Sunday 14 July 13 00:57 BST (UK)
HugoBeauchamp,  have you  tried  looking  in  this  web site ....

http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

It  has lots of Dublin Births,  Deaths and  Marriages. Copy the link into  your  address bar  and when the page  opens  click on the  tab  marked " Church Records"
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: graham saunders on Sunday 14 July 13 04:50 BST (UK)
hugo the 1901 census lthe answer available on line at national archives may give the answer
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: HugoBeauchamp on Sunday 14 July 13 09:14 BST (UK)
Thanks for all the suggestions, I should have included a bit more info on where I have looked for information on the family.

They appear on both the 191 & 1911 census.
Both web sites, Irish Genealogy & Roots Ireland, have been searched in multiple ways.
I also have the Birth Certificate - no name for the child was inserted on the birth certificate at  the time that the birth was registered by a person from the Rotunda who was 'present at the birth'.

I think the problem arises, as far as the online information is concerned, is that the 'cut-off' dates for the filming of those RC Baptism Registers that were filmed is, exactly that!

The churches referred to in my initial post can be ruled out because I have already been in touch with them and had a 'not found report' from each of them as far as the date & the parents are concerned. So it looks as if it will need to be a call/email to other likely suspects where the filming dates were before the birth in 1900 - St Agatha looks as if it might be a possibility - thanks eadaoin.

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Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: graham saunders on Sunday 14 July 13 12:30 BST (UK)
hugo another church you may like to try is Dominic street. dominic street itself runs between uppr dorset st. and parnel st. good luck if i think of anything else i'll post it
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: HugoBeauchamp on Tuesday 16 July 13 17:15 BST (UK)
Graham thanks for that.
As I understand it from St Saviour's website they were not constituted as a parish until 1974.
(The picture on Google Streetview seems rather older than 1974?)
Having had a trawl through various websites looking for likely suspects, I contacted St Agathas, N. William St (not too far from where the family was living in Dorset St) and asked if they would have a look at their register and let me know.
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: eadaoin on Tuesday 16 July 13 22:49 BST (UK)
Graham thanks for that.
As I understand it from St Saviour's website they were not constituted as a parish until 1974.
(The picture on Google Streetview seems rather older than 1974?)

That's correct - the church has been there since 1861,according to the "dominicans.ie" website, but it only became a parish in 1970s. I think the Dominican friars have acted as Parish clergy since then.

eadaoin
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: graham saunders on Wednesday 17 July 13 12:26 BST (UK)
hugo i believe st saviuors may have been part ot st audons parish prior to 1970 i hope this helps
Title: Re: Missing RC Baptism - 1900 - Dublin (North City)
Post by: eadaoin on Wednesday 17 July 13 15:01 BST (UK)
I don't think St Saviour's was part of any parish until 1974. It was just a monastery, as far as I know, like Clarendon St etc. But I could be wrong.

(Nearly all the baptisms in Lr Dominick St in 1899 were in the Pro-Cathedral)

eadaoin