Thanks everyone for that info on Redmond and I'll certainly follow it up. Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed and Marianne" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 3:54 AM Subject: Re: [WEX] Redmond i have visited St.Cyprians church in skreen and have also talked to fr. berney. my family Martin came from skreen (ballyheighe) and were baptized at st.cyprians ( i have seen the records at st.cyprians provided by fr.berney in 2000. a lovely priest and most helpful to us). of all the times i have been reading mail from rootsweb this is the first i have ever seen any mention of skreen and st cyprians. finally someone is as interested as i in skreen. i found info on the history of st cyprians from talking to fr berney as well as some people in the area, but i am intereste in any other info anyone can provide regarding that area. margaret: there are many redmonds there and i did talk to a few while we were in skreen. marianne, n.j.----- Original Message ----- From: "Cyril Newsome" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [WEX] Redmond > Hi Margaret, > > I think the priest you need to contact is: > Fr. Donal Berney CC > Screen > Enniscorthy > Co. Wexford > Tel. ++353 53 917 140 > (Please not the addition of the 91 before all the existing numbers in the > (0)53 area) > > The Church being St. Cyrpian's. > > Other than that you need to see the General Records Office site: > www.groireland.ie/ > > > > slan > Cyril Newsome > Loch Garman > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "margaret mckinlay" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:53 PM > Subject: Re: [WEX] Redmond > > >> Thanks Cyril, you're a fount on knowledge. Can anyone look up Ellen or >> Helen Redmond (1886) to find parents or siblings? Margaret in sunny but >> chilly Edinburgh >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Cyril Newsome" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:44 AM >> Subject: Re: [WEX] Redmond >> >> >> Ballinrooaun (or Baile an Ruadháin), Enniscorthy, Co Wexford is a >> Townland >> of some 353 acres in the PLU of Ballyvalloo in the Barony of Ballaghkeen. >> The townland is the smallest and most ancient of Irish land divisions. >> The >> townland was named at an early period, and they usually referred to a >> very >> identifiable landmark in the local area such as a mountain, a bog, an oak >> forest, a village, a fort or a church. The townland became standardized >> as > a >> basic division in the 17th century surveys by people with little >> knowledge >> of the Irish language. As a consequence many place names were either lost > or >> had their meaning or construction altered. >> >> A record of townland names, shapes and sizes for all Ireland exist in the >> maps of the Ordnance Survey completed in 1846 at the scale of 6 inches to > 1 >> mile. Furthermore the "General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and >> Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland" by Alexander Thom, Dublin, 1861 >> (reprinted by The Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1981) will >> identify all of Ireland's 60,462 townlands against their Ordnance Survey >> sheet number, county, barony, parish and poor law union. >> >> All major records will provide the townland address of an ancestor. The >> civil parish, the major administrative division, is in effect, a group of >> townlands. >> >> >> >> slan >> >> Cyril Newsome >> >> Loch Garman >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "margaret mckinlay" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:15 AM >> Subject: Re: [WEX] Redmond >> >> >> > Do you have a date? My Ellen born 1886. It would be nice to find a >> > connection. I am pretty stuck at the moment. Margaret in Edinburgh >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Marilyn Shanahan" <[email protected]> >> > To: <[email protected]> >> > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:22 PM >> > Subject: Re: [WEX] Redmond >> > >> > >> > > Margaret: >> > > Just wondering if there is a connection...I have a Bridget Redmond > born >> in >> > > Wexford. She married a John Doyle and they moved to Canada. Do not >> know >> > > much else about her, and was thinking that she could be a sister of > your >> > > Ellen or Helen Redmond. Is there a possibility? Thanks and good > luck. >> > > Marilyn Shanahan >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: "Margaret Mckinlay" <[email protected]> >> > > To: <[email protected]> >> > > Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 2:55 AM >> > > Subject: [WEX] Redmond >> > > >> > > >> > >> Ellen or Helen Redmond born 1886 at Ballinruin, Enniscorthy, >> > >> Wexford. >> I >> > >> would like to know more about that address - was Ballinruin the name > of >> a >> > >> farm or village? I believe her father was John Redmond, her mother >> Sarah >> > >> Murphy. Any information about their birth dates and John's >> > >> father/mother, and Ellen's siblings would be most welcome. >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> ==== WEXFORD Mailing List ==== >> > >> This list is for the discussion of Genealogy and History, primarily >> > >> regarding the Wexford area in Ireland. 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