Do you need help in Athy, Co Kildare

[mare]

Hello 

Welcome to Rootschat Earth. Traveller, I hope you enjoy using the site.

I have put the name Dwen on the Surname Interest Table. The information I have has been colated by a cousin of my late mother-in-law for a reunion of descendants of their ancestor Samuel William Dwen who left Athy for New Zealand in 1863.

Happy to share with you or Harry if there is some connection. I don't have anything relating to Athy though, in-laws did make a very brief visit some years back in the hope of finding added history and a few headstones but it wasn't fruitful.

Cheers for the thread Damsel

  mare

[Earth.Traveller]

Hello Damsel,

In an earlier message in this thread you mentioned that the library in Newbridge holds copies of Kildare parish registers.  I am interested to view the RC registers for Athy.

Yesterday I was in the National Library in Dublin and I took a look at the microfilmed copies of the registers for St. Michaels Church, Athy.  The quality of the copies is generally very poor.  In some cases whole pages are completely illegible and many other entries are difficult to read; some entries are blurred due to camera shake.  From what I know, the National Library microfilmed copies where done 30 or 40 years ago.

Do you know if the microfilms kept in Newbridge are copies of the National Library microfilms or are they of better quality?

[Earth.Traveller]

Hi Damsel,

A few days ago I called the Athy Heritage Centre.  The woman I spoke with said that there is a "genealogy office" in Saint Michael RC church.  Is this a new development or does the old regime, which you mentioned in earlier posts, still persist?

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi Im afraid I dont know what sort of quality the films are at the newbridge library as I have never looked at them, if you ring them and ask for their family history section and Mario Corrigan he may be able to tell you whether or not they are they same films.

I  dont know why they are calling it a genaology office but I guess it means she will search in her usual office (there is only one)  for a famly if you have some specifics, it's still one lady there as far as I am aware, sorry not to be able to be of further help, regards Bernadette

 

Hello Damsel,

In an earlier message in this thread you mentioned that the library in Newbridge holds copies of Kildare parish registers. I am interested to view the RC registers for Athy.

Yesterday I was in the National Library in Dublin and I took a look at the microfilmed copies of the registers for St. Michaels Church, Athy. The quality of the copies is generally very poor. In some cases whole pages are completely illegible and many other entries are difficult to read; some entries are blurred due to camera shake. From what I know, the National Library microfilmed copies where done 30 or 40 years ago.

Do you know if the microfilms kept in Newbridge are copies of the National Library microfilms or are they of better quality?

[LC_1986]

Hi

I am looking for Esther Brennan. Her married name is FANNING.

But Esther Brennan was born in 1909 in Kilkenny. She was living in Athy when she was in her early 20's as she had a baby girl out of wedlock when she was 24 in St Vincents Hospital in Athy. This was in 1933. Is there any way you could help me?

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi There, if you know the area she was born in in Kilkenny I could point you to the right church to get her baptism record, ( you dont say whether or not you have this ) and if she had the baby in Athy and you know the babies name you could write to the church here in Athy and request a copy of it ? hope this helps ? Damsel

Hi

I am looking for Esther Brennan. Her married name is FANNING.

But Esther Brennan was born in 1909 in Kilkenny. She was living in Athy when she was in her early 20's as she had a baby girl out of wedlock when she was 24 in St Vincents Hospital in Athy. This was in 1933. Is there any way you could help me?

[Earth.Traveller]

LC_1986, did you check the familysearch look-up site?  It shows one possible match: Esther Brennan, born second quarter of 1909, registered at Thomastown, County Kilkenny.

Do you know the babies first name?

[LC_1986]

Her First name is Lena. Whats the website?

[shanew147]

the familysearch Irish Civil Index is at : http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1408347


Shane