Hi everyone, I posted a few months ago about my ancestor, Catherine Catson, who according an IGI entry was born in "Cork, Cork", but according to her daughter's birth certificate was born in "Kingstown". Just wanted to post with an update with the new information I've received today. I was contacted a week ago by a distant cousin, also in NZ, who found me through the NZ Rootsweb group. He has posted a pile of documents to me, and amongst the papers is a copy of Catherine's Irish birth certificate, located by a professional researcher hired back in 1992. According to the birth certificate, Catherine was born on 08 March 1876, in Tuberlooneen. The birth was registered in the district of *Queenstown*, Cork - well, I can see how several years later her father could get that name wrong, LOL!! The father was George CATSON, of Tuberlooneen; the mother Mary, nee ALLBERT. George was recorded as a pensioner - by my reckoning from his grand-daughter's 1891 birth certificate (where his occupation is listed as a seaman), George would have been around 48 at this time. I've yet to investigate the various links posted by Dennis Ahern back in May in response to my initial inquiry, but now that I've got some definite data to work on I will go and do that now - thanks, Dennis! It all just got too hard back then, but now I've got something more concrete to work with. :-) Can someone tell me where Tuberlooneen is/was in Cork? I've tried looking for it on Multimap, but it doesn't recognise the name. Nor does Google have any references for it. :-( Something else I've noticed just now... in the box labelled "Name and Surname and Maiden Surname of Mother", it says only "Mary Allbert" - would this be considered a 'normal' entry for a married couple, or is this telling me that they were likely not formally married? Printed in the box below the hand-written names are the words "Inion" and "Formerly", and "Formerly" is crossed out. I don't know what this means, but I'm suspecting that she wasn't married to George! The birth was registered by Margaret Catson; I don't know how she fits into the family, but maybe she's George's mother or sister(-in-law?). Something to investigate another day. :-) Thanks for listening to my babble! Any information you can share about this matter will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Wendy Howard Kaiwaka, New Zealand

Hi Wendy, I have lots of ancestors who were born married and died in Queenstown County Cork but I never heard of Tuberlooneen. The only thing I can suggest is that it could be deciphered as Templerobin which is one of the two civil parishes that make up the town of Queenstown. Regarding the entry in the birth cert for the name of the mother I have never seen anything like *Inion* printed in that column. The mother's present name goes in the top space and under the printed word *Formerly* her maiden surname is written. The relationship of the informant to the child was in most cases in the informant column. You might consider applying for a Photcopy of the birth cert from the GRO at http://www.groireland.ie This would eliminate any mistakes which may have been made in transcription. Regards, Brendan. > >> According to the birth certificate, Catherine was born on 08 March 1876, in Tuberlooneen. The birth was registered in the district of *Queenstown*, Cork - > > The father was George CATSON, of Tuberlooneen; the mother Mary, nee ALLBERT. George was recorded as a pensioner - by my reckoning from his grand-daughter's 1891 birth certificate (where his occupation is listed as a seaman), George would have been around 48 at this time. > :-) > > Can someone tell me where Tuberlooneen is/was in Cork? I've tried looking for it on Multimap, but > > Something else I've noticed just now... in the box labelled "Name and Surname and Maiden Surname of Mother", it says only "Mary Allbert" - would this be considered a 'normal' entry for a married couple, or is this telling me that they were likely not formally married? Printed in the box below the hand-written names are the words "Inion" and "Formerly", and "Formerly" is crossed out. > The birth was registered by Margaret Catson; I don't know how she fits into the family, but maybe she's George's mother or sister(-in-law?). Something to investigate another day. :-) > > Wendy Howard > Kaiwaka, New Zealand >