Catholic Parish Records to go online in the Summer

[hurworth]

Isn't it wonderful!   

We'd always assumed that an ancestor who was born in Ireland was Protestant, but then I realised that his sisters, who all remained in Ireland, had Catholic marriages.   I struck it lucky with the parish I started with in the city he was from (I didn't know which parish)....picked a year a couple of years before we think he was born (1790s) and on the 3rd page I found his brother, and a cousin of some sort.  I've since found one sister and another brother.   There's several more to find as we know there were at least 7 (no 7 was called Septimus).

I'm sure than one of the godparents I've found was not Catholic though.   That would be unusual wouldn't it?

[Sandgroper]

I have been searching for my great great grandfather Patrick McNamara and his wife Margaret Brohan from County Clare for 25 years. I had no idea whereabouts in County Clare but today I found the baptisms of their children in Scarriff. I'm so happy and hopefully I'll find their marriage too. Well done National Library of Ireland.

[conahy calling]

http://canonlawmadeeasy.com/2007/12/27/can-non-catholics-serve-as-baptismal-sponsors/

Link about Sponsors/godparents at baptism.   

Great to hear that searches have been successful 

[smudwhisk]

Helping a friend with her research and found that while RootsIreland list 7 baptisms to a couple between 1877 and 1887 in Bray, when I look at the film none of them appear despite it covering all that period.   I could understand the odd one but with all the baptisms missing I'm wondering if RootsIreland have got them listed against the wrong parish.  Residence on all the transcripts is Little Bray, but the NLI don't have a film for that period for baptisms anyway so I can't think its an NLI issue.

[jc26red]

I have found not all the NLI registers are online yet.

A few years ago I was looking for the baptism of my husbands grandmother in 1887.  A "friend" here and elsewhere  popped into the NLI and found her and her family, between 1871-1892.  I then obtained a photocopy from Dublin of her birth cert. As she had changed her name by first name when she came to England, I was never 100% sure it was her.  Roots Ireland now have her baptism with a note saying when, where and whom she married. This confirmed my research but the NLI registers online for Duleek only go up to 1880.
The parents married in Drogheda in 1871, this is on both Roots Ireland and NLI "but" not in the civil marriage index.     I have been very confused about this for ages but now having seen the baptism of their first son, confirms father was in 40th regiment (2nd Somerset) of foot.  And his birth record is in the GRO regiment index! Grandmother did give her father's occupation as soldier of the Somerset Regiment on her marriage entry but we thought that was just another of her tall stories.

Lesson learnt, check all resources! I have found some very good notes!

[hallmark]

I have found not all the NLI registers are online yet.

A few years ago I was looking for the baptism of my husbands grandmother in 1887.  A "friend" here and elsewhere  popped into the NLI and found her and her family, between 1871-1892.  I then obtained a photocopy from Dublin of her birth cert. As she had changed her name by first name when she came to England, I was never 100% sure it was her.  Roots Ireland now have her baptism with a note saying when, where and whom she married. This confirmed my research but the NLI registers online for Duleek only go up to 1880.
The parents married in Drogheda in 1871, this is on both Roots Ireland and NLI "but" not in the civil marriage index.     I have been very confused about this for ages but now having seen the baptism of their first son, confirms father was in 40th regiment (2nd Somerset) of foot.  And his birth record is in the GRO regiment index! Grandmother did give her father's occupation as soldier of the Somerset Regiment on her marriage entry but we thought that was just another of her tall stories.

Lesson learnt, check all resources! I have found some very good notes!

All the Registers that NLI have are online... the registers elsewhere are not online as the NLI don't jave them to scan.

[hallmark]

All the Registers that NLI have are online... the registers elsewhere are not online as the NLI don't have them to scan.

[hallmark]

If you go to  http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/#counties

then go to whatever County you need, the click on 'Catholic Records' it shows all the dates

PLUS the dates which ARE at NLI,  with direct link to whichever Parish you want at NLI via the   Image Online    link


It tells you where the rest of the Registers are!

[Erin2012]

Enjoying the search so far... My eye balls may fall out of the sockets, and I feel a bit frustrated with some of the handwriting, worse about the nearly invisible ink at times and ready to burst at a stong posibility of my gg grandmother baptism ... But the first name is torn from the sheet.

Overall... In spite of these frustrations, I am so thrilled the records are on line. 


And love all the priests notes!