Re: Andrew and Catherine Cloonfad
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Andrew and Catherine Cloonfad
Valerie Moran 9/13/09
Hi Valerie:
Your post is long on verbage, but short on DOB/DOM and placenames. Will do my best. First, Cloonfad is the name of 8 townlands in Co. Roscommon.
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,800,000 surviving rcds for abt 70% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800. Cos. Donegal and Derry were recently added to the database.
Note 1 - Without a KNOWN county, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 30%.
Note 2 - Only 1/2 of Co. Cork's rcds are in this database.
Note 3 - The RC church kept control over most parish rcds from Tipperary (north). These are ONLY available thru the Tipperary Family History Research center at a substantial fee (regardless of outcome).
For Peter Fitzmaurice B ????, Co. Roscommon, with a father forenamed Andrew, I found 0 rcds.
For John Fitzmaurice B ditto, ditto.
For Edward ditto, ditto.
For James ditto, ditto.
For Andrew Fitzmaurice M ????, Co. Roscommon, I found 0 rcds.
For Andrew Fitzmaurice B ????, Co. Roscommon, with the father's forename unknown, I found 2 rcds, 1-civil, 1-church in 1887. Father's forenames were both John. These are likely duplicate rcds for the same event.
For Cat(herine) Egan B ditto, I found 187 rcds - waaay too many to summarize here. Assuming an 1889 DOB +/- 4 yrs, I found 11 rcds: 1885, 2-1886, 4-1887, 3-1891, and 1892.
These largely negative results suggest that their marriage and children's DOB occurred after 1920. Contact the General Register Office at http://www.groireland.iehttp://www.groireland.ie for its civil rcds.
Google the Foundation's name to lead you to this database. Register, opt to be notified as rcds are added and browse. Pls post your search results to my genforum msg.
Hope this helps. Good luck.