Mary Thank you very much. I will give this a try. Do you know, is this the records for all of the Bantry Parish or just this particular Church? Again thank you for the information. John On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Mary Ellen Moran <jacmare@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Hi John, > I'm also looking for ancestors in the Bantry area but have stayed with the > Beara list because I enjoy reading Riobard's items and the material others > contribute. I found baptismal and marriage records at St. Finbarr's Roman > Catholic Church. The sacristan there is Mary Burke. The record book is > kept in the sacristry amid the cleaning supplies! Mary has indicated that > she has little time to look up records but a small contribution may provide > more of an incentive. Good luck with your search...Mary Ellen> Date: Mon, > 24 Nov 2008 15:21:45 -0500> From: john.steitz@gmail.com> To: > BEARA@rootsweb.com> Subject: [BEARA] Buckley> > I have followed this list > for a year now simply because so many in Wales> were from this area and I > wanted to learn what was going on beyond the> obvious that would send folk > to the mines and ironworks of that area. This> is not a Buckley > concentration area but I enjoyed the writings of Riobard> and the active > list. Recently, I have learned some facts th! > at have changed> my thinking.> My BUCKLEY search has pointed me toward > Bantry. I am specifically looking> for a John Buckley born +/- 1829. John > was the son of Michael Buckley.> John's mother's name may have been Mary > Harrington maiden or other.> John Buckley married a Mary Scannell in Merthyr > Tydfil Wales in 1852. It> appears that John Buckley traveled to Wales with > another older John Buckley> b1811+/-. He first shows up in Merthyr Tydfil > Wales on 1851 Census as a> visitor in the home of William Shea family.> The > more pieces I put together the more it looks as if my John Buckley may> have > originated from the Bantry/ Caheragh area or else he simply liked the> > people from there alot. I tried to search the archives but I did not get> > far.> > I realize that Bantry is not Beara but I am confident that someone > on list> can point me in the right direction to find baptismal records and > possibly> more.> > Thank you> John> > -------------------------------> To > unsubscribe from the l! > ist, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. > > http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >