Hello List, I have just discovered a gggrandfather by the name of Andrew Cunningham was born in Ireland c 1825. How do I find out whereabouts in Ireland he was born? Any help much appreciated. Regards June Paterson, Auckland --------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is usually impossible to track just a name in Ireland but if he recorded in the 1847-1864 Griffiths Valuation you may stand a chance. You did not mention if/when he left Ireland or what religion he was The Griffiths valuation has now appeared online in a searchable format at the URL www.otherdays.com. This has opened the field up a lot to a structured computer based search strategy using Civil and RC Parish maps on URL http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/sitemap.htm, modern OS maps available on http://www.multimap.com and the old Griffith's Valuation maps available from the www.otherdays.com site. You can buy the relevant sheet of the "The Discovery Series" map from www.elstead.co.uk (very useful) It is possible to use the Otherdays Griffiths for 72 hours on payment of an $8 fee and carry out a search for a person without prior knowledge of the townland, Parish or Barony - just the County. It is also possible to specify a search using variations of the persons name. Enter Burns and a search will be carried out for Burn, Byrne and Burns. The otherdays site also lets you printout copies of the original Griffiths documents. You can search for Andrew Cunningham county by county provided he owned land, or (more likely) rented land. During the Griffiths period he would have been 22-39 (presuming he continued to live there) Having found AC in the Griffith you should also be able to track the residual Irish Cunninghams or their descendants via the 1901 and 1911 census. Let me know how you got on! Liam "A bird in the bush is worth two in the Cat" ----- Original Message ----- From: "jjpaterson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:27 PM Subject: [DONEGAL] Help Please > > Hello List, > > I have just discovered a gggrandfather by the name of Andrew Cunningham was born in Ireland c 1825. How do I find out whereabouts in Ireland he was born? > > Any help much appreciated. > > Regards June Paterson, Auckland >