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/DYC.2ACE/1338.1 Message Board Post: Hello Karen, There are no vital records in Ireland before 1864 (Protestant marriages 1845) and no surviving census records from the 1800s. Where in [London]Derry was he born? The city or county? The local church register for his religious denomination for his place of birth would be the location to look for his baptismal record.Church records aren't computerised or centralised and their availability depends on the location as well as religious denomination. Regards. Eilís O'Hara