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Offline Miss Trees

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presbyterian records in Dublin?
« on: Wednesday 22 July 09 04:41 BST (UK) »
Has anyone had any luck tracing Presbyterian church records in Dublin (particularly from afar)? I would love to locate the birth/baptism of my gg grandfather Henry Wilson (who according to British census and other records was born in Dublin abt 1851), and if possible his parent's marriage.

He married at the Parish Church of St George in 1868 but according to family information he was Presbyterian. At the time of his marriage he was living in the parish of St. Thomas.

Any help or suggestions much appreciated - this is my major brickwall :)


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Re: presbyterian records in Dublin?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 04:43 BST (UK) »
Ooops I meant to post this under the Dublin forum, so if any moderators feel it should be moved then feel free!

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Re: presbyterian records in Dublin?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 08:43 BST (UK) »
The Presbyterian records do exist (well mainly exist!) but many of the churches have closed.

My g-grandfather was the minister at the Abbey St Presbyterian Church, which is now closed, but I did manage to fine that the records had been transferred to another Presbyterian church which is still operational, and they were kind enough to extract the information that I needed.

You would need to find what was the original Presbyterian church(es) in St Thomas and St George.  If there is a Dublin resident reading this they can give you that information much quicker than I can research it! Then if it is closed email or phone a neighbouring Presbyterian Church to see who held the records.

I should add that 100 years ago in Dublin (and in Scotland) there were various "flavours" of Presbyterianism, as every so often there was a schism on some deep point of principle, and half the congregation would move down the road and set up a new church.
Grant in Tipperary
Piper in Tipperary
Blong in Leix
Watson in Offaly
Pugh in North Wales
Evans in North Wales
Proctor in Edinburgh
Steedman in Stirling

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Re: presbyterian records in Dublin?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 08:51 BST (UK) »
Found this by using a search engine,
seems to be lots of information that should help
finding where the records might be.
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Re: presbyterian records in Dublin?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 09:22 BST (UK) »
You can contact the below website and they can do a search of St Thomas parish for you.

http://www.library.ireland.anglican.org/

They did this for me for free.
Wilson: Kirkoswald, Scotland and Dublin
Breen: Hendrick Street, Brunswick Street,Dublin
Moore: Kildare and Dublin
lyons: Hendrick Street and Brunswick Street,Dublin
Donnelly: Marrowbone lane, Braithwaite street, Dublin
Byrne: Mercer Street, Dublin
Mills: Dublin, Wicklow
Higgins: Dublin
Gray: Aryshire, Scotland
Mills King, Wicklow and Dublin
Donegan, St Catherines Parish, Dublin
Murphy: Enniscorthy and Ballybanoge, Wexford
Browne, Crean, Kelly, Keavney: Sligo.

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Re: presbyterian records in Dublin?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 12:02 BST (UK) »
You can contact the below website and they can do a search of St Thomas parish for you.

http://www.library.ireland.anglican.org/

They did this for me for free.

St. Thomas' is Church of Ireland, not Presbyterian.
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Re: presbyterian records in Dublin?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 23 July 09 02:06 BST (UK) »
Thank you all!

Well... I recalled a long time ago I had signed up with the Presbyterian history of ireland website. There was a technical glitch and I never got my login information so forgot about it, but now I've managed to sort it out. They have a database with some history on the congregations, churches and their ministers, quite interesting. Corisande I might have found your Reverend here, I can PM you some details in case there is anything new to you!

None of the congregations look to be a stones throw from where my fellow was so far. The website says explicitly they don't answer general genealogical inquiries either so finding out who has what records and where is going to be fun! I did check out Proni website but looks like any of the records they hold for Dublin is fairly limited.


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Re: presbyterian records in Dublin?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 23 July 09 02:09 BST (UK) »
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St. Thomas' is Church of Ireland, not Presbyterian.
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No matter, I've got a mixed bag with CofI, Presbyterian, and Catholic / Carmelite in my past, so I'll probably need that information soon!

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Re: presbyterian records in Dublin?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 23 July 09 05:01 BST (UK) »
I just had to read a little further to find some good information and just in case it might help someone else:
http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com/index.php?id=39

I'm too spoilt by the internet these days but this would be an excuse for a holiday just not any time soon!