Gday Pam, Thanks for your email,you are quite right it is hard doing Irish research. I will give the site you sent to me and see if that can produce anything. Bert in Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Craven" <pamcraven@btinternet.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 1:16 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Mary Ann McMullen/Northern Irish records > The Irish records are a minefield very little is left either burnt or > pulped > so only odd bits of census left. Ireland is not only split into counties > but Townlands and parishes so you also need to know exactly which townland > and then parish as well? Some of the church records are good if they have > survived but you would need to know which church and as they are not on > line > get someone to do the search if it is impossible to get over to Ireland. > All the churches had to send their records to Dublin pre 1921 and it was > there they caught fire c1922 but some churches either sent a copy of their > registers or took a copy to keep which they were not supposed to do but > luckily for some of us they did. Many old registers are still held at the > church, when I went looking in the local church the vicar took me into his > kitchen and told me to help myself they were all stacked in the cupboard > under the stairs. I even found my own christening! > > PRONI is on the move like the Liverpool record office so again you would > need to see when records are accessible again. I have got some of my > mum's > side back to 1820 but only because mum knew so much and I was able to > verify > via the church records/marriage registry offices but some I can only get > to > c1870! > > There is a good FREE site you may wish to try > > http://www.ulsterancestry.com > > There are lots of free pages of information plus a genealogy forum, if you > go there and register with the Down site you can post your queries there > like this Rootsweb one. > > Good luck > > Pam > > "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely > in > a good looking and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, > thoroughly used up, totally worn out, shouting - Wow! What a ride!" > > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-merseyside-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:eng-merseyside-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Redmond > Sent: 22 January 2011 6:41 AM > To: eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Mary Ann McMullen > > The 1851 census shows Mary Ann living with sister Eliza McMullen and > nephew > James McMullen, aged 14 (both born in Ireland). There is a James McMullen > on > the 1871 census born in 1836 from Co Down. It is possible that this is the > same James McMullin. Perhaps you could try searching for Mary McMullin in > Co > Down to begin with. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >