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Oh my goodness, Louise… I bet this is my Cornelius and Ellen. Thanks for the tip!

Quote from: loudam on Saturday 09 March 13 15:56 GMT (UK)

Not sure if you've seen this but I'll post it anyway
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHXB-TM9 The actual picture of the register is on Ancestry..

Thank you again, Loudam. I hadn't seen this... wonderful. Will check!

Oh Louise... thank you! Those are my Edward and Margaret. I am sure they must be. I have to study up on how to use Ancestry. com. I've been subscribed for a long time but never had found this despite many searches. So lovely to find them. 

Quote from: FinleyHarrington on Friday 08 March 13 09:43 GMT (UK)

Hi Trigger Happy,

Oh, too bad, thank you for checking.

I just found one reference to it and thought it might be online, but I couldn't find how to access it. Here is the exact reference:

KENNEFICK, John; Carrigrohane COR IRL; Cork Examiner; 1896-2-29; dja

OK, now that is good news. A year or so ago I had a similar reference and contacted the Examiner archives office. they were kind enough to post me a copy of the obituarys for the day in question and hey presto, my man was there. Good news for me, but bad news for the guy who had died in 1898!

I'll have to check that possibility. People here are amazing with all the generous leads I've been given. Now I have to get my search skills up to snuff.

Hi Finlay

This looks a good match for Elaine De Courcey & ? Riely   in 1816
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/1809920005603

The Spellings of names varies a lot on records..

These look to be some of the children from that Marriage

1817 http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/c28b7e0018164
1828 http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/77cac20160491
1829 http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/b4d0790161287

Loudam... thank you! Theses are great leads! I noticed all the spelling differences, I've read that spellings often differ for the same person. I will have to check these when I get home... so looking forward to it. Thanks again!

Oh, I see... well that would be a problem.    I mistakenly gave the date of birth for John and Margaret's daughter, Margaret instead of her Mother's dob. I have no dob for Margaret Riley/Kennefick, but my aunts tell me her parents were Elaine De Courcey and (Unknown--Perhaps Cornelius) Riley from Cappa Bandon.

Margaret Kennefick b. 3 Jun 1869 in Bean Hill, Clonakilty, Cork, Ireland; m. Edward Harrington, b. July 1865 in Cappa Bandon, Cork, Ireland: This couple, Margaret Kennefick/Harrington and Edward Harrington were my great-grandparents. The 1900 US Census says that Edward emigrated when he was 15, and Margaret emigrated when she was 14. They lived in Salem, Massachusetts at the time of that census.

There is a baptismal certificate for Margaret that states for July 4, 1869: Magt. John Kennefick and Magt. Reilly -- Bean Hill; SS. Humphrey Crowley & Ellen Donovan -- P.N. (I don't know what the initials stand for.)

I hope I'm on the right track here. I would love to know more about my family and our history.