I should have said " I now know that my great grandmother's father was "John (John) BARRINGTON then (1896) residing at Main Street Rathdrum". Richard White TUNBRIDGE WELLS Kent UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "compostellan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:16 PM Subject: Fw: [IRL-WICKLOW] VIA CARA EDGE AND BARRINGTON and WHY? > For what it's worth after I had emailed and telephoned the Registrar's > Office in Roscommon they looked again and found the marriage certificate I > was looking for. No explanation as to how they I had missed it. I can only > think that I had inadvertently given them too much information. I knew my > great grandparents had married in St Saviour's Church (of Ireland) in > Rathdrum whereas the marriage certificate simply said "The Parish Church". > The marriage was conducted by the Rev R Wyndham Guinness. > > Anyway all's well that ends well. I now know that my great grandmother's > father was Michael BARRINGTON then (1896) of Main Street Rathdrum. I > believe that my branch of the BARRINGTONs may have come to Rathdrum from > Queen's County. My great grandmother's sister Frances (or Fanny) > BARRINGTON was a draper in Tullow, Co Carlow in the 1910s and early > 1920s. (Thanks to the Irish Times archive I now know when she put the > business up for sale in 1922 and have the notice of her marriage in June > 1923 to William F Murdock as well as lots of information on my EDGEs). > > I should be interested in any further information anyone might have on my > BARRINGTONs and what link, if any, they might have with Jonah BARRINGTON > and his ancestors. > > > > Richard White > Tunbridge Wells > Kent UK > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cara_Links" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:27 PM > Subject: [IRL-WICKLOW] VIA CARA EDGE AND BARRINGTON and WHY? > > >> >> Dear Listers, >> >> Richard is posting his mails and although he can see that they appear in >> archives, he is not receiving a copy of his mails, >> Hence I am re-posting this mail to see what happens and see if he gets my >> mail, but if any of you have information on this family >> Richard would be delighted to hear from one and all. >> >> Perhaps to the list may be the better way to go then one and all will be >> able to see why these things that are being noted are not being found >> >....... >> >> Cheers from here >> Cara >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: compostellan >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:23 AM >> Subject: BARRINGTON and EDGE Marriage Certificate >> >> >> I keep running up against a big brick wall in pursuing the line of my >> maternal great grandmother Catherine BARRINGTON, believed to have been >> born in Queen's County (from 1901 census) but later living in Rathdrum. >> >> From the recently published Irish BMD index on Family Search I found >> the following details about the marriage of David EDGE and Catherine >> BARRINGTON: >> >> Reg District Rathdrum; Reg Date Jan-Mar quarter 1896......collection >> Ireland Civil Registration Indexes 1845-1958. >> >> On this basis I applied to Roscommon for a copy of the marriage >> certificate including the date 10/1/1896 and the place St Saviour's >> Church Rathdrum which, I think, I obtained a couple of years ago when >> visiting Rathdrum and looking at the parish records there. >> >> I have just received a note from Roscommon saying that after checking >> their records for the years 1895 to 1897 they have been able to find "no >> entry corresponding to the particulars given in your recent application". >> Can anyone on the list explain why this might be so? > > Richard White > Tunbridge Wells > Kent UK > >