Can anyone help me please with some guidelines into searching for Irish records. I have recently found a birth in Scotland for a Mary Clarke, born 1855 in Renfrewshire - her parents were Hugh Clarke and Julia Higgins, giving information that they were married near Dublin in June 1854.
It gives both their birth places as Co.Dublin. I have been unable to find a marriage for them but have found a baptism for Julia Higgins in Baldoyle, Co. Dublin in 1835.
Also Hugh Clark's death record in Scotland in 1879, gives his father's name as Philip but does not give a mother's name. I estimated that he would have been born around 1827. Is there any way I might find out his mother's name to help fill in some missing information?
I have found out quite a lot of information from the Scottish records but I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction with the Irish ones. In the census records place of birth is only given as Ireland in most of them so finding a birth records with the parents place of birth has been, I hope a bit of a breakthrough.
Many thanks for any help.