Kingstown/Bray catholic parish records

Newstreet

I have a ton of people in the Kingstown, Co.Dublin catholic parish records, and as many more in the Bray, Co.Wicklow records.

All were living in what is termed the Rathdown district, covering south Co.Dublin and north Co.Wicklow. St.Peter's church in Little Bray was built in 1837. Prior to that, a small catholic chapel existed in Shanganagh, at Crinken, from 1810 to 1837. Holy Redeemer in Bray was built in 1852. Catholic records go back to 1792. Prior to 1852 in Bray, and 1810 in Crinken, I have no idea where catholics went to be baptised or married. There are Shankill marriages dating back to the 1770s in the Kingstown records.

The difficulty I am having is in understanding which of these churches the records in the parish registers refer to. Members of the same family appear alternately in the Kingstown records and the Bray records. Would St.Peter's baptisms and marriages, for instance, appear in the Bray, Co.Wicklow records? Or would they be exclusively in the Kingstown records? Likewise, would Holy Redeemer baptisms appear in the Kingstown records?

What about earlier baptisms and marriages, in the late 1700s/early 1800s? Any indication what churches these records would refer to?

shanew

Records would relate to parishes rather than individual Chapels, usually kept by whichever was the parish Church at the time. Kingstown parish originally stretched down to areas down as far south as Crinken and Shankill and close to Little Bray before that Chapel was built in around 1837, this was initially a chapel of ease for the parish of Bray but later became a separate parish in the 1860s. There are also records included in the Bray registers for Little Bray, Old Connaught and Shangannagh noted as located in registers of Kingstown/St. Michael's.

see Kingstown & Cabinteely - three chapels and Bray - four Chapels

I would say the applicable parish for events would depend on timeframe and exact location at the time

p.s. I believe parish which covered the Bray area had it's origins in Kilmacanogue.

shanew

For Bray parish (Holy Redeemer) the Dublin Diocese website just states parish established 18th century. I believe that a previous chapel for the parish was located on the site where the larger Holy Redeemer was built, the 1st ed. OSI c1840 shows a smaller building at the location. I have not seen any details of any other previous chapels in the area other than the much older one at Kilmacanogue.

Dublin Diocese website mentions that Dún Laoghaire/Kingstown parish was est. from Loughlinstown in 1829, although this entry has a circular reference back to Ballybrack in the 1980s. I not not come across Loughlinstown as a parish of chapel before in my research which focuses on the churches and parishes during the 1830s/1840s. (unless its a reference to Crinkill?)

tabbey

I had ancestors marry in 1879, the civil register identified the church as Dalkey, but i eventually found their marriage recorded in the Ballybrack parish register.