Parish of ST PETER'S C of I Dublin

[Quaxer]

This parish dated from about the Norman invasion. The most recent church was demolished about 1980 having been rebuilt in 1863-1867  in Aungier Street,the architect being Edward Carson. That most recent church was on the same site as the previous which was built about 1680
The Duke of Wellington and Robert Emmet were baptized there.
In its day it was considered to be perhaps the most affluent of the Dublin parishes.

Regards        Quaxer

[Hohenloh]

The church was located where the YMCA is now.

I don't think the Duke of Wellington was baptized there - according to my sources he was baptized in the old St. Kevin's church in Camden lane, and the baptismal font used was brought to Dundrum church when St. Kevin's closed in 1912.

St. Peter's was Robert Emmet's family church and there are rumours that he was secretly buried there some time after he was killed.

[Chilis]

Another possible mis-transcription -

There is a marriage of John Disor MACDONALD of Tullamore and Alicia WILSON of Richmond St. St. Peter on 27 January 1836 (Parish of St. Peter's C of I) recorded on irishgenealogy.ie

My question - could this be 'DIXON' and not 'DISOR'?  If 'Dixon', I may have one more piece of a family jigsaw.
Chilis

[BillW]

Chilis, if other factors fit - names and/or places and/or dates - I would go for it, with appropriate notation.

You can clearly understand a faint or badly written x as an s, or an n as an r.  What you could do is order a photocopy of the original entry.  Even better, photocopies or digital images of a few pages of the register might set up a pattern of how these letters were written.

We understand your excitement at having probably found that missing piece.

Bill

[shanew147]

... What you could do is order a photocopy of the original entry.  Even better, photocopies or digital images of a few pages of the register might set up a pattern of how these letters were written...

Im not aware of any facility to order copies of parish records. To see the originals (or microfilms of them) you would have to visit the RCB Library in Dublin.


Shane

[Oaks and Acorns]

...To see the originals (or microfilms of them) you would have to visit the RCB Library in Dublin...

Would an LDS center have these on microfilm?

Dara.

[aghadowey]

You can check the LDS online catalogue at www.familysearch.org. They may not have the film in stock at your local LDS library but be able to order it for a small fee.

[BillW]

It is my possibly erroneous understanding that these records come from parish register holdings at what I first thought was the NLI but what I now think may have been Dublin City Library.

Whichever, I would have thought that the original, or a film of it, is at one of those libraries.

Bill

[Chilis]

Well, thank you one and all

I think now that I have two courses of action following your advice.
1/ Write to RCB Library hoping an archivist could take a look at the forenames of the groom and give an indication that it could quite possibly be John 'Dixon'.
2/ See if I can order a microfilm via an LDS Centre.  In the past, I know that this latter course can take many months but, hey, I've been on this case for almost 20 years, so what's another year....

Having just looked at the churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie website and put in the surname 'Disor', I get nothing back other than the relevant entry.  There are very few DISORs in Ireland anyway.  Maybe the person doing the transcribing knew a DISOR or two which coloured their judgement when looking at this entry.

Again, thanks for your responses
Chilis