This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WWC.2ACI/3733.1 Message Board Post: His British military records should provide detailed information about him. They would be in the UK Archives in Surrey. No civil registration in Ireland before 1864 and no census records for the 1800s. You need his specific birth location in Kilkenny to find his baptismal cert in the local church register.