When exploring Dublin Heritage I came across a possible clue about a g.g.grandmother, Lucy Dowdall' death. This Lucy died and was buried on 22-12-1879. She was from the parish of St Catherines. A couple of questions before I go racing off to purchase a death certificate: 1) does anybody else lay claim to her or know anything about her? 2) is there any way of finding out more about her on the basis of this information alone? 3) where is the parish of St Catherine's in Dublin. 4) was it usual for people to be buried on the day they died? When my great grandfather's elder brother Christopher (his mother and father were Patrick and Lucy) enlisted in the army in Melbourne Australia, he gave his place of birth as Parish of Dublin. Would this be a different place? Paddy Hobart, TAS

The Irish index to civil registrations of births, marriages and deaths can be ordered in to family history centres of the LDS church. Perhaps you can get to one? Or some kind soul might look this up for you. The death registration records the person's age at death and their marital status. Because you know when Lucy was buried you would be able to work out from death registrations when she was born. Lucy died so late in the year it's likely that her death wasn't registered until early the following year, so I would check out both years. That's if she has indeed been registered. It's worth bearing in mind that up to 15% of life events in Ireland were never registered at all. As far as I know, parishes all had saints' names, such as 'parish of St. Catherine, Dublin'. It doesn't seem right me that there was such a place as Parish of Dublin. It looks like the saint's name of that particular Dublin parish was left out. I would be reluctant myself to invest in a death certificate until you have as much information as possible, to be sure that this person is indeed your ancestor. Have you looked at the IGI to see if there's anything about her and her family there? Best wishes in your quest. Debby Raymond, Queensland, Australia

I am happy to do lookups for people the next time I visit Parramatta which hopefully may be next week. BBBBBUUUUUTTTTT !!!!! I need everyone to send me a direct email for each inquiry to [email protected] with the exact above subject line and fill in the following: Subject: [ birth, marriage or death] Year: Surname: Christian name: Surname: Christian name: [the above for marriages only] Father: Mother: Place: Please only fill in this exact information above and add any comments etc under here: I will try this again BUT the last time I volunteered I received messages to the Dublin list, or sent to me personally with the wrong subject line, a whole story about the person with the date somewhere in the message etc. Please adhere to the above as it makes it so much quicker for me and therefore I can get through more queries. I will be printing out each individual request on pink, blue or green paper depending on the subject then sorting them in to subjects, then years then alphabetically. Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Debby Raymond Sent: Friday, 25 May 2007 4:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN-CITY] St Catherine's parish Dublin The Irish index to civil registrations of births, marriages and deaths can be ordered in to family history centres of the LDS church. Perhaps you can get to one? Or some kind soul might look this up for you. The death registration records the person's age at death and their marital status. Because you know when Lucy was buried you would be able to work out from death registrations when she was born. Lucy died so late in the year it's likely that her death wasn't registered until early the following year, so I would check out both years. That's if she has indeed been registered. It's worth bearing in mind that up to 15% of life events in Ireland were never registered at all. As far as I know, parishes all had saints' names, such as 'parish of St. Catherine, Dublin'. It doesn't seem right me that there was such a place as Parish of Dublin. It looks like the saint's name of that particular Dublin parish was left out. I would be reluctant myself to invest in a death certificate until you have as much information as possible, to be sure that this person is indeed your ancestor. Have you looked at the IGI to see if there's anything about her and her family there? Best wishes in your quest. Debby Raymond, Queensland, Australia ------------------------------- 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

Thank you Debby. I appreciate your suggestions. Paddy On 25/05/2007, at 4:53 PM, Debby Raymond wrote: The Irish index to civil registrations of births, marriages and deaths can be ordered in to family history centres of the LDS church. Perhaps you can get to one? Or some kind soul might look this up for you. The death registration records the person's age at death and their marital status. Because you know when Lucy was buried you would be able to work out from death registrations when she was born. Lucy died so late in the year it's likely that her death wasn't registered until early the following year, so I would check out both years. That's if she has indeed been registered. It's worth bearing in mind that up to 15% of life events in Ireland were never registered at all. As far as I know, parishes all had saints' names, such as 'parish of St. Catherine, Dublin'. It doesn't seem right me that there was such a place as Parish of Dublin. It looks like the saint's name of that particular Dublin parish was left out. I would be reluctant myself to invest in a death certificate until you have as much information as possible, to be sure that this person is indeed your ancestor. Have you looked at the IGI to see if there's anything about her and her family there? Best wishes in your quest. Debby Raymond, Queensland, Australia ------------------------------- 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