Paul, I have checked Griffith's but found quite a few Dwyers scattered around the area. In particular there was a cluster of Dwyers near Pallasgrean. The two Dwyers (actually one is still an O'Dwyer) living in Croom today apparently moved to Croom from Pallas, so there may have been a link between the two, but I couldn't identify which were "my" Dwyers. I haven't checked the Tithes because I didn't know where they were available, but now I will. Thanks! - Phil On 3/29/2011 11:38 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:38:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: Paul Keroack<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Looking for Dwyer/Martin in Croom > To:[email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Phil, > ? > Having some ancestry in that area, I can tell you that Croom RC parish included parts of Ballingarry, Anhid, Dysert and Croom civil parishes. Marriages are supposed to go back to 1770, with some gaps. You might try Griffiths Valuation (now freely searchable on askaboutireland.ie, ancestry.com, Irish Times?and other sites). If you can?identify?your family?in Griffiths?(about 1851), then you could try to search the Tithes Applotment (1826) for the same location. You might not find a?firm parentage but at least the exact location they came from - which is about all that many of us can hope for! > ? > Paul Keroack??? > > --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Phil Albro<[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Phil Albro<[email protected]> > Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] Looking for Dwyer/Martin in Croom > To:[email protected] > Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 10:28 AM > > > Hi.? This is my first post to the list.? My gggrandparents Matthew Dwyer > and Mary Martin were married at St. Mary RC Church in Croom village in > 1840.? Both were claimed to be 18 at the time.? They came to America in > 1852 aboard the ship Underwriter, having lost two children, brought two > others with them, and a fifth is unaccounted for.? The children were > baptized at St. Mary also.? I find no evidence they lived in Croom > village, but they claimed to have been from Croom Parish. > Unfortunately, baptismal records at St. Mary only go back to 1828, not > early enough to tell me their parents.? I have made three trips to > Ireland from North Carolina, USA, to see what I could learn, which isn't > much.? Does anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks, > Phil Albro (Dwyer on my mother's side)