Thank you for all the replies, and to Peter especially for the >>From about the 1850's to almost 1920 the Church of Ireland in the > area of Tuam maintained numerous small churches. The > largest church was St. Mary's Cathedral in Tuam itself. > In 1860 St. Mary's was much smaller than today. As St. Mary's grew > the smaller churches in the area folded into St. Mary's. > Eventually all the records from most of these smaller > satellite churches went to St. Mary's. > > In the 1990's most of St. Mary's records went to the > Church of Ireland's library in Dublin. Some records > still exist at St. Mary's. One book is missing. > > If you ever get to St. Mary's look up Jarleth Canney. > He is a local historian on Church of Ireland history > in the area. He used to be the custodian at St. Mary's.> Perhaps I ought to write to Jarleth Canney. And I should have gone to St. Mary's when I visited Galway a couple of years ago. How much would anyone bet that the baptisms for Francis, William and John McCusker could be in the missing book?! :-) - they were born about 1858 and 1862 (from army records) and 1865 from a birth certificate. Joy > Thank you for your reply. Killererin is just about two miles south east of > Tuam - on the map here: > http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=killererin+galway&daddr=a > thenry+galway&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&vps=1&sll=53.344813,-8.973083&sspn=0.200 > 044,0.596008&ie=UTF8 > > Joy >> From: "Joy Dean" <jsdean47@aol.com> >> My great-great-uncles came from Killererin, two of whom were born before >> civil registration. Would Killererin have a church where they would have >> been baptised? They were Church of Ireland. >> Thank you. >> Joy >