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Ancestors from Ireland

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Margarita

Margarita Report 19 Jun 2011 15:36

Ive hit a brick wall in my seach for ancestors who came over from Ireland...Can anyone advise me about sites holding bdm records from Ireland? I have traced my line to a John Cashman who married Catherine and have no idea how to find Catherine's surname as I believe them to have been married in Ireland....they had three daughters...Ellen Elizabeth and Mary ...the family settled in South East London - I believe it may have been known as Middlesex area at the time...circa 1820's.

Can anyone help out here?
Regards...Margarita Maxwell

Maura

Maura Report 19 Jun 2011 15:51

http://ifhf.rootsireland.ie/ free to search but you have to pay to view the full record

Flick

Flick Report 19 Jun 2011 15:52

Try the IGI............

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

There will not be any civil records for such an early date

Flick

Flick Report 19 Jun 2011 15:54

Where - and when - were the daughters born?

Margarita

Margarita Report 20 Jun 2011 15:10

I believe all three daughters were born in SE London in England...Ellen Elizabeth and Mary...John and Catherine were probably married in Cork in Ireland then came to England...possibly the eldest girl Ellen COULD have been born in Cork in Ireland and accompanied her parents as a baby....Im not sure at all.
What a shame my search is 'an early date' as you state there will not be any civil records for an early date.
Im supposing there are NO records as such for the huge emigration that took place due to the famine in Ireland.

Margarita

Margarita Report 20 Jun 2011 15:12

Thanks for replies and help....Maura I shall look on rootsireland and hope its not too expensive to glean info...thanks