Hi everyone, For several years now I have been tracing my mother in law's family. In the 1851 England census, Cornelius and Frances CALLAHAN stated they were born in 1780 in Ireland, though nothing more specific than that. I didn't know about the IFHF website until a few days ago, and I decided to look to see if there were any birth/baptism indexes that weren't on other sites such as familysearch.org, both the old and new style sites. I was delighted to find the baptism index of a Cornelius CALLAGHAN at Co. Wicklow in 1781. does anyone have access to Co. Wicklow records that would be able to give me any further details, such as the actual date and parents or father's name please? Cornelius and Frances were married at St John's Hackney, London in 1803, her surname being indexed as HALLAH. I've not been able to trace a Frances HALLAH, but HALLAM seems to be quite a popular surname. Is anyone researching either of these surnames please? With sincerest thanks for any help, Jon

HiIt would probably be worth your while purchasing Cornelius's baptism info from IFHF (€5) as that will (hopefully) give you at least his father's first name (and possibly his mother's too). The sponsors names, if given, are usually interesting as well. It will also give you info about where in Wicklow he was baptised. As you've been on the site already, you will note that there are many other Callaghans who might very well be siblings of Cornelius's, so you might consider purchasing them too. Good luck! Colette > From: jons.fh@btinternet.com > To: irl-wicklow@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:26:37 +0100 > Subject: [IRL-WICKLOW] CALLAGHAN of Co. Wicklow > > Hi everyone, > > For several years now I have been tracing my mother in law's family. In the 1851 England census, Cornelius and Frances CALLAHAN stated they were born in 1780 in Ireland, though nothing more specific than that. I didn't know about the IFHF website until a few days ago, and I decided to look to see if there were any birth/baptism indexes that weren't on other sites such as familysearch.org, both the old and new style sites. > > I was delighted to find the baptism index of a Cornelius CALLAGHAN at Co. Wicklow in 1781. does anyone have access to Co. Wicklow records that would be able to give me any further details, such as the actual date and parents or father's name please? > > Cornelius and Frances were married at St John's Hackney, London in 1803, her surname being indexed as HALLAH. I've not been able to trace a Frances HALLAH, but HALLAM seems to be quite a popular surname. Is anyone researching either of these surnames please? > > With sincerest thanks for any help, > > Jon > *************************************** > 1- Only leave in the body of the mail what is relevant to your answer > > 2- Change the SUBJECT LINE to suit the body of your own Mail to List. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-WICKLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I received my survey directly from the NLI 10 days ago, and decided that it was hard to pass a comment on the goings on of the Dublin Library without having it all checked out, as when I was last there the system in place was working and working well. The link below will take you to the Survey:- http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NationalLibraryofIrelandUserSurvey Familiar faces have taken their redundancy and left, no one blames them for this, but surely the library should have had in place someone else with same expertise to follow through on these jobs? Then of course we have the cheaper labour people, who have stepped into the jobs, who in fact do not even speak a lot of English or Irish either for that matter, whilst I am not against these persons gaining employment, I think they should at least have a fundamental grasp of Irish Family history. So I set in place a few persons to go check the system out as it is today. This is their report with my own added feelings in it. Report:- When you now enter the Dublin Library foyer the enquiry or meet and greet counter that was situated on your left of the entrance, is not there, you now pass through the security gates which are dead ahead of you as you enter the front door, show your library pass, and should you not have one of these then you are directed, up the stairs, to the left to enquire and get one, this is in fact the genealogy department, but that also is not as it was. So any directions you need regarding family history you are directed to this area of the library, ( so far so good I guess) but then in the genealogy department you no longer have the people working there, with the expertise of, how why and where you should be looking, oh by the way before this happens you must take a number and wait in line, for your number to be called. Then if you are unlucky enough to strike a person who has no knowledge of what or where you are needing to look, there standard answer is go to the heritage center of said county, for instance the day this was all being looked over a couple from UK had flown into Dublin to use the Dublin Library facilities to be told that they would need to go to Co Cork to look at their heritage center files, and were dismissed without even so much as a suggestion of what was available within the Library they were in. So passing from this floor to the next floor, where you filled in your forms for microfilms to be delivered to the reading room (downstairs opposite the genealogy room) you fill in your form as before, but as the man behind the desk stated he did not know anymore where the reference books had been placed, and that everything was all over the place. So the form was filled in for an old favourite Microfilm to test the system, 6476/77 that by the way is Avoca Co Wicklow Ireland,. Instructions were then forth coming that you now return to the reading room, and its open plan, you help yourself to the microfilm, and before you rub your hands together and say that systems sounds good, imagine opening a cupboard with all these draws in it holding thousands of microfilms, very daunting to say the least. But when you locate the place and microfilm which is in a box that you have asked for, 6476/77 you then place this box in the slot that says in use, go to your reader and load the film. Film loaded and Avoca parish register should have appeared but no it was Liscannor 2440 that appeared on the reel, so you ask what is wrong with this system well to begin with if you take a film out return it to its correct box and put back in its correct place, or do we have an archivist who is their wisdom monitors the reels assists you with the correct one and checks them back in, my own answer to that is yes, you are free to make up your own mind on that one. So yes I do now agree that you take the time to support Fiona and her course on her survey, but that is of course yet again your own choice. But all support that can be given, replaces a system back in a very important Library in our endeavours to do OUR own family research, because it feels to me like, Heritage Centers, Pro Reseachers, would be delighted with this daunting system now in place in the NLI Dublin As Collette has pointed out ( Dublin List) it will only take 10 minutes of your time, it may save you hours of grief eventually when trying to research your family in Ireland The link below will take you to the Survey:- http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NationalLibraryofIrelandUserSurvey Cheers Cara

Hi colette, thanks for your reply. I'm not %100 sure for definite that this is my wife's great great great grandfather's birth though. In the 1851 UK census, Cornelius says he was born at Ireland in 1780, but nothing more specific than that. I did find another Cornelius callaghan on familysearch who was baptised a couple of years later, his father was named as Jeremiah. How on earth I'm going to prove which one (if either) is the correct one is anyone's guess. I do know that there was no child named Jeremiah in my wife's family group, I was rather hoping that the co Wicklow entry may have a father's name that was more likely, like Joseph, or alexander. It would be ideal to have the additional information from that index as you say, but I really can't afford to spend out on a family that at the moment I'm not %100 convinced is the correct one. I hope you can see where I'm coming from on this one? Many thanks for your reply again, best wishes, Jon