Diane, thank you so much for your help here......this gives me things to think about, as I've had nothing to go on... If Denis died, it would between 1845 and 1850, as Bridget is found on Ontario in 1851...that is, if he died in Ireland I will get on the familysearch site and check those dates you gave me.... I didn't think of him being born in Ballybunion and then living in Bleanmore....I can't find out much about Bleanmore at all...it must be a small place..... OK...I'll think about this and work on what clues you have given me...and THANK YOU SO MUCH!..... Barbara Lewis ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Need help with Bleanmore > First, congratulations on finding a grgrgrgrandparent! (That's further > back > than I can go.) Unfortunately, it will be hard to find a baptismal record > for Denis around 1819-24. Bleanmore is in Kilmurry McMahon RC parish, and > baptismal records don't start there until 1845. It's just across the > Shannon > from Ballybunnion, but baptismal records don't start there until 1831. > (Though > he was living in Bleanmore, he might have been born in Ballybunnion.) > > You might have better luck finding his death, assuming he survived the > Famine and stayed in Ireland. Abbeyfeale is in Newcastle registration > district > and the death index on familysearch.org shows at least five possible Denis > Collins deaths in Newcastle: 1803-83, 1813-83, 1818-81, 1820-96, and > 1822-92. > If you send to the GRO with dates, volumes, and page numbers, it's 4 euros > each for the registrations, which would give you place of death and > informant. Unfortunately, the Griffith's index shows dozens of Collins > families in > Abbeyfeale, including 4 for Denis Collins, so unless you know his > townland, it > would be hard to know if any of them were yours. > > Diane > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message