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Waterford / Re: My Paternal Grandmother Mary Rickman (nee Collins) from Waterford City
« on: Sunday 17 January 16 22:56 GMT (UK)  »
Keith,

try http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/
Specifically http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/9814530006246

Regards... Bernard

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Waterford / Re: My Paternal Grandmother Mary Rickman (nee Collins) from Waterford City
« on: Sunday 17 January 16 20:53 GMT (UK)  »
Jim,

both Catherine's are correct. I would have to assume the first one died young and the name was reused (as was common practice in the area).
As for the marriage record in 1856 which has Knockanure as the location, all this means is that bride is more than likely from there. Generally speaking the marriage took place at the home of the bride and in the Mooncoin registers where only one place name is mentioned it is the bride's address in all but a handful of the marriages.
"Mary said she was born in co Kilkenny, in the census and to say she is not in Slieverue/Ferrybank and Piltown church records". Could you clarify you point here? Are you just saying that you have searched Slieverue and Piltown and not found Mary Quinlan?
Regards... Bernard

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Waterford / Re: My Paternal Grandmother Mary Rickman (nee Collins) from Waterford City
« on: Sunday 17 January 16 12:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,
I'm a native of Mooncoin parish (also funnily enough with a Collins ancestor from West Cork - my grandmother was from the Rosscarbery area) and in response to a post on the Mooncoin facebook page I figured out Mary Quinlan.
As per the censuses, Mary Quinlan was born sometime in the late 1850’s or early 1860’s - 1856 (1901 census) & 1862 (1911 census).
I could not find a single Quinlan baptism in the Mooncoin register between 1850 and 1865. First one is a Margaret Quinlan on 16th Jul 1866, address Mooncoin town itself, with parents James Quinlan and Catherine Kenny.
When you look in the baptisms of the neighbouring Kilmacow parish, you find other children of these parents, William 1st Feb 1859 Grannyknock, Mary 28th Mar 1861 Grannyknock, Catherine 21st Sep 1863 Ballyke(ohane), Catherine 5th Nov 1868 Currawn & Ellen 22 Jun 1871 Dangan. (all these are townlands in Kilmacow parish - Grannyknock being a sub division of Granny/Grannagh)
So it looks like Mary Quinlan’s family moved around the Kilmacow/Mooncoin area over the years - I can only assume in search of work. You will also find a marriage record in Mooncoin parish for her parents on 11th Aug 1856 in Knockanure (again not a townland in it's own right but a subdivision of one of the townlands at the Killinaspig end of Mooncoin parish). See http://homepage.eircom.net/~mooncoin/Kilnaspic_townslands.htm
You can find all these record at http://registers.nli.ie/
Of course this ties in with Mary's marriage record where her parents are listed as James and Catherine from Kilmacow.
So while Mary Quinlan was born in Grannyknock, the family must have returned to Mooncoin and certainly her mother was a Kenny from Knockanure in Mooncoin parish.

On the Collins side do you have info on Denis' baptism on the off chance that there is a connection to my Collins family?

Regards... Bernard

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