I have been interested in the discussion about Casey's volumes. As far as I know, we have only one of the volumes in New Zealand in Auckland's Public Library. I went to Australia doing research in 2004 and found there were only a few volumes of it in Sydney's State Library but the whole set in Canberra's National Library. When I came home ( after studying the index of all 16 volumes and finding many references to my family names) I noticed certain defects in my notes, with references missing in some cases and others mysteries. Then I read in Rosemary Ffolliott's Journal "The Irish Ancestor" (all on CD) this year that there are many errors in Casey's volumes. She described his work as one of the great tragedies of Irish genealogy or words to that effect in that such a large amount of time and resources had been spent on them. One example I found is this: Dr A.E. Casey ( or one of his helpers) found the baptism in 1800, on March 16, of William Clements, son of William and Ann at Ballyvourney in Cork West, in the Barony of Muskerry West, Cork. [A.E. Casey, Volume Eleven, page 4, Protestant Marriage Records, Ballyvourney Parish, Co. Cork.] However, Michael Leader, prominent Irish genealogist, told a Clements researcher in England who was employing him that the same baptism took place on the same date at Mallow. On my reckoning, Ballyvourney and Mallow are quite far apart as Mallow is in the north of Cork County. Did Casey, one of his helpers or Leader make a mistake when transcribing this entry, did the parents have their child baptised in different places, or did I make a mistake when making my notes from Casey? Could someone who has access to Casey's Vol Eleven help me out here, please? Barbara Holt in NZ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1]

Barbara, The LDS have filmed Casey'sVol's and I have Vol 14 coming but I believe they are in very fine print (like 3 pages on one). Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Holt" <BHHolt@xtra.co.nz> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:01 AM Subject: Dr Casey's Records > I have been interested in the discussion about Casey's volumes. As far as I know, we have only one of the volumes in New Zealand in Auckland's Public Library. I went to Australia doing research in 2004 and found there were only a few volumes of it in Sydney's State Library but the whole set in Canberra's National Library. When I came home ( after studying the index of all 16 volumes and finding many references to my family names) I noticed certain defects in my notes, with references missing in some cases and others mysteries. Then I read in Rosemary Ffolliott's Journal "The Irish Ancestor" (all on CD) this year that there are many errors in Casey's volumes. She described his work as one of the great tragedies of Irish genealogy or words to that effect in that such a large amount of time and resources had been spent on them. One example I found is this: > > > > Dr A.E. Casey ( or one of his helpers) found the baptism in 1800, on March 16, of William Clements, son of William and Ann at Ballyvourney in Cork West, in the Barony of Muskerry West, Cork. [A.E. Casey, Volume Eleven, page 4, Protestant Marriage Records, Ballyvourney Parish, Co. Cork.] However, Michael Leader, prominent Irish genealogist, told a Clements researcher in England who was employing him that the same baptism took place on the same date at Mallow. On my reckoning, Ballyvourney and Mallow are quite far apart as Mallow is in the north of Cork County. Did Casey, one of his helpers or Leader make a mistake when transcribing this entry, did the parents have their child baptised in different places, or did I make a mistake when making my notes from Casey? Could someone who has access to Casey's Vol Eleven help me out here, please? > > > > Barbara Holt in NZ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > [1] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message