Tipperary Family History Society

[corisande]

Yes, in my opinion the costs are a rip off. They do not appear to understand that genealogy is doing extensive "trawling" of records yourself to eliminate and/or confirm where your own ancestors came from.

These days most of us just know that our ancestors came from "Tipperary" or if they are lucky a town like "Thurles" but it could be one of a dozen parishes round there.

You don't get value for money either with your €150. I was emailing someone this week who had a marriage date of 1834 given in their €150 worth, but it did not exist on the Heritage Centre's data base. When confronted the Heritage Centre just said it was a "typo" in the report, without an apology.

Either the churches o the state ought to exanine what these "Heritage Centres" are up too, and do something to substantially improve it!

I would be interested to hear from anyone who had paid €150 and been happy, as well as those who had paid it and been unhappy

[Pegasuss]

I would be interested to hear from anyone who had paid €150 and been happy

Corisande, I hope You are not Holding Yout Breath waiting to Hear!

[J.M. Flannery]

Hi munchiecarter

Re your query I know it was quite some time ago but if you are still out there,  I could not find “ballyquirkeen in carrick-on-suir “ I have searched the Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (1861) based on the census for 1851. On page 120 there is a Townland Called BALLYQUIVEEN, in Tipperary N.R., Barony of Upper Ormond, Civil Parish of Ballinaclough, and Poor Law Union of Nenagh.
No of sheet of the Ordnance Survey Maps = 27.

Maybe you were searching in the wrong place.

Julia

[Oaks and Acorns]

munchiecarter hasn't been on here since 2007 but in case you're still looking for "Ballyquirkeen" check out the following:

Townland: Ballycurkeen
Barony: Iffa & Offa
Civil Parish: Kilmurry
PLU: Carrick on Suir

Dara.

[bearkat]

Has anyone got any information about the Quirk family of Tipperary.

I am also researching QUIRKS from Tipperary.  I'm told that my family came from Nenagh and moved to England between 1851 & 1856.

I've looked at Nenagh parish records in Dublin but there are too many gaps in the parish records to be sure I've found the right family.  I was surprised how few QUIRKs there were in Nenagh so presume they must have originated from elsewhere.

I visited the Heritage Centre at Nenagh but the genealogist wasn't there.  Perhaps I could afford 150 euro if it coninues to fall against the £.

I agree that that their 5 euro search is a bit of a lucky dip.

Not sure what else to do.  It is very frustrating.  :-

[corisande]

To get an idea of the spread of any name put it into Griffiths

 Quirk comes up with about 1000 in Ireland and 5% of them are in North Tipperary.

Of those in N Tipp about a quarter are in parish of Dorrah, and a quarter in parish Killoscully

What "moved from Nenagh" often means with migrants is that they lived around there and it is easier to tell people in England "Nenagh" than "Ballywhatnotwhatnot"

Unless you have definite information, all you will get is sort of generalised rubbish that I am spouting here. And you can hoover that you yourself from Griffiths, Tithe Applotments and digging around on parish registers yourself on those parishes that do have the name you are looking for.

So get yourself a list of likely parishes from those sources about, and look up the records yourself (if available, they are on fiche in NLI). In my opinion it is daft to rely on those cards that the IFHF centres produce.

[bearkat]

Thanks for your thoughts. 

I doubt that I shall get the oppotunity to go to Ireland again - shame as it was beautiful.

I was surprised how busy the parish was.  It took me ages to seach through what I did. Are the records available at LDS history centres or have the IFHF got the monopoly?

[corisande]

You can get them though LDS centres but would have to order them. From memory one of the LDS centres in London has a complete set that you can look at without ordering.

I realised I had not put the link on to search Griffiths
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

And try this for Tithe records (they have not been published as a set yet)
http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/tipp/

[bearkat]

Thank you, I will explore what the History Centres have to offer.

Should I worry about whether they were QUIRK or QUIRKE?

My family weren't very consistent about when they were born which doesn't help, varying as much as 5 years between census 

They didn't make it easy for us.