Dublin Parishes

[judyjay]

My Dublin ancestors all lived in St Thomas's parish, North Dock according to the 1911 census but I can't find anything out about the church. Would this have been a Roman Catholic or a Church of Ireland parish?  How many churches would there have been in the parish? I know that my great aunt was married in the Pro- Cathedral on Malborough Street but I have no idea if this was the church they attended - they were all Roman Catholic.
Any information on the parish would be great.
Thanks.

[eadaoin]

In this context St Thomas is the CIVIL parish (an administrative division, and there used to be a CofI St Thomas Church- I think it was destroyed in 1916 or the Civil war (maybe someone can confirm this))

The Catholic Parish was the Pro-Cathedral .. other nearish RC churches were St Agatha, N William St, .. St Josephs, Berkley Road ... and I suppose several churches belonging to Religious Ordrs.

eadaoin

[judyjay]

Thanks Eadaoin, that explains it perfectly. If my sister and I get over to Dublin next year we'll start with the Pro-Cathedral records to see if we can trace the rest of the family before moving onto other churches. They all lived within two or three streets of each other so probably worshipped together as well.
Regards
Judy

[Quaxer]

Judyjay & Eadaoin

St Thomas(C of I) Church was built in c.1760  when the parish of St.Mary Mary Street was divided to cope with increased population.
St Thomas's Church was gutted by fire which destroyed most of Upper Sackville Street in the Civil War in July 1922. Although the main structure survived the opportunity was taken to extend Gloucester Street (now Sean Mac Dermott Street) up to Sackville Street  (now O'Connell Street)
A new St Thomas's Church was errected in the early 1930s.

Regards         Quaxer

[gormangenealogy]

Hello Judyjay.

if your planning to look up any records in ST Mary's Pro Cathedral, you will not be allowed to do so.

[eadaoin]

Thanks for yours re St Thomas, Quaxer.

Judyjay
some of the Pro-Cathedral records are in the National Library (only fairly recently, maybe in the last 5-6 years )
the ones I looked were old 1850s, but I don't know up to what date they go
- maybe a call to the Nat Lib, or maybe a Dublin Rootschatter could find out for you - I'm too bogged down at the moment to check, I'm afraid

eadaoin

[judyjay]

Thanks Quaxer regarding the info on St Thomas's church/parish.  It all helps to build up a picture of where my family lived.

Thanks to gormangenealogy and eadaoin on the Pro-Cathedral information. We won't be going there then. I'll follow up your suggestion about contacting the Nat Lib. I would have done all this before we went anyway so that we knew exactly where the records we wanted to see [if they were available] were located.
 The records on familysearch research pilot are only useful when you have an idea of the date you are looking for. But so far 4 of the 5 certificates that I have ordered have been the right ones which I think is pretty good going.  Roll on the 1901 census so I can find them on that.

Thanks for all you replies and help
Regards
Judy

[shanew147]

there's an index to the RC microfilms available in the National Library at : http://www.nli.ie/en/parish-register.aspx

The films for St. Mary's, Marlboro St are numbers P. 9148 to P. 9160 and start in 1798, up to about 1900 for baptisms and 1882 for marriages.


Shane

[judyjay]

Thanks Shane.

I see you are researching Rooneys in Dublin city. You don't have any Annie/Anne's born c 1850 do you?  My great grandmother was Annie Rooney and she is entered as being 60 years old on the 1911 census. She married Patrick Daly also of Dublin. I have no other information for them other that that they missed three years off my grandmother's age on the 1911 so their ages may not be too exact either. I'm looking forward to finding them on 1901.
Regards
Judy