norris family of county limerick

[MaggieN]

 looking for information about parents of William Norris family. William was born in about 1821 county limerick. He married Catherine Gardner and moved to Cork County. I cannot find any information on his father or mother. all I have information from census form.  Thank you for any assistance. Maggie

[heywood]

Welcome to Rootschat, Maggie.

Where do you have him in the census?

Presumably this is the marriage
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634239#page/83/mode/1up

A witness is Cornelius Norris - have you searched for this name? Might be a brother.
I see that William had a son, Cornelius.

There is a marriage 1844, Cornelius Norris and Elizabeth Roche with another Norris witness.

[Pennines]

There is a transcribed baptism on Roots Ireland;

William Norris - baptism 16 Sep 1821 - Galbally and Aherlow

Roman Catholic

Father John Norris - Mother Anne Martin

Witnesses; Thos. Martin and Sarah McCann

(Another child - Jane Norris, was baptised in the same place to these parents, on 1 July 1823.)

Winesses; Bryan McCann and Bgt. Norris.

I would have thought, following heywood's find, that a Cornelius would have come into the picture though - but those 2 children are the only ones coming up at the moment, born to those parents.

[MaggieN]

DEAR HEYWOOD AND PENNINES, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE INFORMATION.THE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE IS A JOHN ABD MARY COOK ALSO JOHN AND MARY MONAHAN IN THE AREA. I HAVE CHECKED FOR A CORNELIUS NORRIS FOR BROTHER OF WILLIAM BUT NO LUCK. PERHAPS ONLY HAD ONE SON BUT MOST OF OTHER FAMILIES HAD 5 OR6 SONS. BUSY PEOPLE!!! THE NAME BRIDGET I HAVE RUN INTO ON MY SEARCH SO PERHAPS I WILL CIRCLE AROUND AND SEE WHERE THAT LEADS ME, IHAVE SPOKEN TO MY COUSIN, WILLIAM IS IN HIS FAMILY TREE AS HIS GRANDFATHER. MY GRANDFATHERS BROTHER BUT HE IS AS STUCK AS ME. IT WAS VERY KIND OF YOU TO ASSIST ME AND I WILL LET YOU KNOW IF I FIGURE IT OUT. I LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS   ON CAPE COD, AND IF I CAN EVER ASSIST YOU, PLEASE LET ME KNOW THANKS AGAIN,MAGGIE

[heywood]

With regard to Cornelius and family.

There is a son, Patrick, baptised 17th March 1846 to Cornelius and Catherine. Their residence shows as ‘Quit M.nt’ which is, I would say, Quitrent Mountain’.
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634240#page/158/mode/1up

Your William is living there in 1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Kildorrery/Quitrent_Mountain/1152290/

There are baptisms for children to William and Catherine Gardner Norris:
William 1st November 1846
John 1st October 1848
Cornelius 7th April 1852
Residence Quitrent Mountain

You can see here that the townland is close to Limerick.
https://www.townlands.ie/cork/condons-and-clangibbon/farahy/kildorrery/quitrent-mountain/

It does look as though William and Cornelius are part of the same family.

Baptisms for Kildorrery parish do not begin until 1824 here
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0065

[Kiltaglassan]

You can see here that the townland is close to Limerick.
https://www.townlands.ie/cork/condons-and-clangibbon/farahy/kildorrery/quitrent-mountain/

It's on the Cork-Limerick border and NNW of the village of Kildorrery.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6187923#map=13/52.2666/-8.4748

[heywood]

I realised that and should have explained it more clearly.
I was thinking that perhaps there wasn’t much of a move for William.

The records required are so early of course which makes it more difficult.

Petty Sessions records show Various Norris names in 1850s, Quitrent Mountain: Michael, Maurice, Patrick and Francis.

[irishgal72]

im norris of limerick as was my father samuel and his father joseph i dont know if this will help but the norris of limerick are catholic only because joseph changed his religion to mary my nana mary bridget plus wer from cork lineage only started with joseph father samuel william 1901 census his in glenthworth dtreet limerick but he is church of ireland he married anne maloney from south africa there also in the 1911 census at taylor street

[jc26red]

Hi Irishgal72 and MaggieN

My husband’s 3x great grandfather was John Norris, a merchant of Limerick born 1702, he had 10 children and I have  followed most of them through, they were CoI at that point. The Roche family were distantly related. I’m not at my pc at the moment to check names to see if they are listed.

Have either of you done an ancestry DNA test yet? My husband has done one since the start of this thread… sorry I missed it last year.

Jenny