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Can any lovely genealogy people help please - Smith

I'm wishing to locate the marriage and death records of my gggrandfather's parents - Simon Smith and Hannah Smith.  Because Smith is such a common surname I've had to employ a professional Irish researcher who found that that my gggrandfather was born in the 1820's in the parish of St Lukes-Dublin - Church of Ireland denomination. I can only presume that both Simon and Hannah did also live in this parish.  However to this day this old church has fallen into disrepair, so I don't where to start to look for marriage and death records. Any ideas would be most helpful.         

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Thanks again Shane. You are fantastic and i have to say that  i'm truly overwhelmed with the help you are trying to give me.  Just goes to show that there are some good people out there in Genealogy land. Like yourself, I did remember something also. It is, that on James Smith's death certificate, here in Australia, it mentions that his father name was 'Simon Smith', but his mother's names is unknown.  Now if that information is correct, I did find a 'Simon Smith' as the father of 'James Smith' born I think in 1827 in Dublin at St Peter Parish on the irishgenealogy.ie website.  The DOB is a little out from the DOB I have, but I'll go back and have a look, anyway. Also, I wanted to say that,  do you remember when I first started posting on this website, that I was also looking for a 'William Smith'.  As I've already stated to you previously, I joined a Genealogical Society in America and they were able to locate a James Smith and William Smith on the 1851 San Francisco marriage returns - Johanna Regan and Mary Ann Regan. (Not the actual Marriage Certificates though, unfortunately).  Anyhow, it seems to me that James Smith and William Smith were brothers who married two sisters. Maybe when I'm asking for help from a Genealogical Society in Ireland, that information will help a little.  All Helps.       

Thanks Shane again.  What a lovely person you are for helping me like this. I'm  in Australia doing this research and I'm getting more help from you than from the Genealogical Society I joined.  I'm not impressed, Grizzle! Grizzle! Anyway, do you perhaps think, that I should contact the National Library of Dublin first and ask them if they conduct searches for people, then if I have no luck with them, make contact with the parishes that you have kindly given me a link to? It did cross my mind though like you stated, that some of the parish priests or whoever, probably wouldn't carry out research for me.  Also, I was seriously thinking of joining a reliable Genealogical Society in Dublin, at a cost though, because I'm not getting anywhere fast if you know what I mean.

Thanks Shane again. Your info is much appreciated.  Your right, I forgot, Catholic BDM records weren't kept at PRO, kept by individual parishes. Then the rest were destroyed in WW1. Weren't the 1831, 1841 etc census kept at the PRO though, until fire destroyed it. I can't remember now which building was destroyed by fire. Anyway i'll take a look at irishgenealogy.ie again and try to narrow down the location re the name 'Smith'.  What a task when one has the name 'Smith' to research. 

Thanks for your reply, Elwyn.  Answering your question re my ancestors church denomination, i presume he was Roman Catholic, because James Smith my gggrandfather along with my gggrandmother left Ireland - date unknown - then went to America, San Francisco, California where they married in 1850 at the Roman Catholic Church - Mission Dolores Church. Then they came onto Australia where they raised their children and that is all i know. I realise that the gggrandfather could have been Church of Ireland but of course i don't know.