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Limerick / Re: Marriage of a soldier stationed at Sarsfield Barracks about 1848
« on: Thursday 17 December 09 18:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks LimerickLad.

They were both RC as far as I know.  All their kids were baptised by RC chaplains in India.


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Limerick / Marriage of a soldier stationed at Sarsfield Barracks about 1848
« on: Thursday 17 December 09 00:26 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know if there was a garrison church at Sarsfield Barracks and if so whether marriages were performed there?  Are there records available?

I am looking for the marriage of a John O’Day (born 1818) stationed in Limerick (presumably Sarsfield Barracks) on and off throughout 1847-48 who married a Johanna Bulger (born about 1827) at some time during this period.

If soldiers from the Barracks did not get married in a garrison church, does anyone know where they might have got married in Limerick?  Is there a church nearby that was used?

Thanks for any help.

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Hi aghadowey

You’re right to pick me up on this.

My comment arose from a footnote in the article referred to in my earlier post which quotes from Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour’s “The Life and Times of Selina Countess of Huntingdon. By a member of the Houses of Shirley and Hastings” (2 vols,1839), ii , 163 as follows:

“ ... with the sanction and advice of Mr. Shirley, the old Presbyterian meeting-house, in Plunket street, was rented.  For several years before its dissolution the church was in a very low state: the sentiments and preaching of the ministers who officiated were extremely unpopular, and but ill adapted to preserve the church from a languishing condition.  After some feeble attempts to revive the expiring interest, the society dissolved, and the meeting-house was disposed of to Lady Huntingdon.”

I have not followed up this reference but given that it was made by a biographer of Lady Huntingdon one perhaps needs to be cautious about how much weight to give to it - it is possible that there may be a particular religious bias to the assertions made about the Plunket Street ministers.

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Thanks Quaxer.  What you say makes sense of why I have found a reference to a marriage licence bond for Samuel GOUGH (to Anne VICKERS in 1740). It might also explain why in 1765 his daughter Hannah GOUGH married Thomas SPARROW in a CoI church - St Catherine’s, Thomas Street.  Samuel left her some property in his will.

And thanks Aghadowey.  I wonder what made Ebenezer Kelburn so unpopular.  I suspect you are right that no records remain from this period for Plunket Street and Usher’s Quay.

For anyone else interested in non conformist churches in Dublin at the time of Rocque, I found this article by Kenneth Ferguson in the Dublin Historical Record (Vol. 58, No. 2 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 129-165) - “Rocque's Map and the History of Nonconformity in Dublin: A Search for Meeting Houses”.

Thanks again to all who responded. 

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Thanks everyone.  I've written to the RCB to see if they are holding any records for these meeting houses.

However,  it has occured to me to wonder whether baptisms, marriages and burials might have had to be held in the Established Church at this time anyway.  Does anyone happen to know whether that was the case or not?

Thanks again.

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Does anyone know where I might find the church records (if they still exist) for two early Presybterian meeting houses in Dublin - Plunket street meeting house (whose congregation joined that of Usher’s Quay in 1773) and Usher’s Quay meeting house.

My interest arises out of an ancestor Samuel GOUGH merchant of Thomas Street who died 1770/1771.  In his will he left £10 to the poor of the Plunket Street meeting house and the same sum to its minister Revd Ebenezar Kilburn from which I have assumed that he was probably a member of the Plunket Street Presbyterian congregation at the time of his death.

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Dublin / Re: Cullenswood House, Dublin
« on: Tuesday 07 July 09 01:52 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Shane and Eadaoin.

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Dublin / Cullenswood House, Dublin
« on: Monday 06 July 09 20:28 BST (UK)  »
According to their marriage certificate, two of my g g grandparents were both residing at Cullenswood House Dublin at the time of their marriage in 1847.   They married at St Peter's.

Can anyone tell me anything about Cullenswood House at this time?

Thanks.


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Cork / Re: Cork photographic studios - mid to late C19
« on: Monday 01 June 09 17:40 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Shane.
Much appreciated.
Cherrian

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