Need Help

donna1000

Hi all, looking for a bit of advice, my great grand mother was born in Dublin 1915 now i have her birth cert, cant seem to find a marriage for her parents although it says on birth cert they are, now granny tells me she was brought up in a childrens home that her parents put her there? poor granny passed away last week and now i have no link i have all the info on birth place born mothers name fathers name and area where she was born, when granny left the home she was 17 or 18 and moved to Liverpool UK she seems to think she had sisters, were do i go from here any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks for reading

spurious

Have you looked for her parents/possible older siblings in the 1911 census?

donna1000

Hi, yes i have searched the 1911 cencus for the address on the birth cert but to no avail, but when i look up the father 1 comes up as a 15 year old boy so that would mean that if it is the right person 19 when he had granny? but granny could not tell me any of the names of siblings.
I went down to the offices in Roscommon to look for the marriage but came against a brick wall, the girl at the office said it was not common that the two parents although stated on birth cert were married, granny did say she was in the orphanage/industrial school in Drumcondra with nuns?
Thanks

pinkypinky

Donna,

My condolences.
Have you searched the LDS index for marriages?

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

Since you have her birth certificate, I presume you have her mother's maiden name.

This site doesn't allow for cross-referencing so you'll need two windows open side by side. Just put in the people's names and Ireland as the place name, then narrow down the results to a decade and a county (don't put in a town because it's indexed by registration district). It's possible they weren't in the place you were expecting.

If you're not finding it, feel free to pm me the names and details and I can have look - I'm familiar with the site and how it works.

johnny_doyle

have you plugged the names into the Church records site at :

http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/


or checked for the parents names on the 1939/40 electoral register (needs a plugin downloaded)?

http://www.dublinheritage.ie/electoral/index.php

You may want to post the names and addresses on here and see if anyone here comes up with anything.

Given the era, might the father have been enlisted in the armed forces or involved in the Nationalist cause as there may be further documentation here.

Other forums to think about are :

http://www.rootschat.com/

http://www.dublin.ie/forums

donna1000

pinkypinky wrote: »

Donna,

My condolences.
Have you searched the LDS index for marriages?

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

Since you have her birth certificate, I presume you have her mother's maiden name.

This site doesn't allow for cross-referencing so you'll need two windows open side by side. Just put in the people's names and Ireland as the place name, then narrow down the results to a decade and a county (don't put in a town because it's indexed by registration district). It's possible they weren't in the place you were expecting.

If you're not finding it, feel free to pm me the names and details and I can have look - I'm familiar with the site and how it works.

Thanks pinky have pm you

donna1000

johnny_doyle wrote: »

have you plugged the names into the Church records site at :

http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/


or checked for the parents names on the 1939/40 electoral register (needs a plugin downloaded)?

http://www.dublinheritage.ie/electoral/index.php

You may want to post the names and addresses on here and see if anyone here comes up with anything.

Given the era, might the father have been enlisted in the armed forces or involved in the Nationalist cause as there may be further documentation here.

Other forums to think about are :

http://www.rootschat.com/

http://www.dublin.ie/forums

Hi Johnny, thanks a mill for the websites will check them all

donna1000

A big thankyou to Pinky, for all the hard work in tracing great grannys parents thankyou so much
kind regards
Donna