Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service
Jump to Forum
Home: Surnames: Conroy Family Genealogy Forum

Post FollowupReturn to Message ListingsPrint Message

Re: Conroys of Altamuskin, Foremass & Redergan, co. Tyrone, Ireland
Posted by: Ralph Connors (ID *****9163) Date: June 13, 2009 at 11:28:54
In Reply to: Conroys of Altamuskin, Foremass & Redergan, co. Tyrone, Ireland by Joseph Mullin of 1368

Hello Joseph:

Foremass is the name of two townlands in Co. Tyrone. Redergan doesn't seem to be a townland name. Altamuskin, at least this spelling, also isn't a townland name. It may be a corruption of Altaglushan, Altamooskan, or Altamullan which are all townlands in Co. Tyrone.

I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,000,000 surviving rcds for abt 65% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800.

Note 1 - Without a KNOWN county, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 35%.

Note 2 - Only 1/2 of Co. Cork's rcds are in this database.

Note 3 - The RC church kept control over most parish rcds from Tipperary (north). These are ONLY available thru the Tipperary Family History Research center at a substantial fee (regardless of outcome).

For "T" Conroy B 1857 +/- 4 yrs, Co. Tyrone, with the father's forename unknown, I found 0 rcds. Note, this is a broad search.

For Kate Conroy B 1872 +/- 4 yrs somewhere in Ireland with the father's forename unknown, I found 3 rcds: 1868 Galway, 1871 Mayo, and 1872 Wicklow.

For Cat(herine) Conroy B ditto with a father forenamed Pat(rick), I found 19 rcds with one in 1872, Co. Tyrone, Errigal Kiernan RC parish. This seems to fit your criteria very well. This parishes earliest B rcds are from 1834.

Assuming siblings were B in the same parish, I identified the following as potentials: Daniel B 1869, Mary Anne 1864, Patrick 1861, and Terence 1865.

Google the Foundation's name to lead you to this database. Register, opt to be notified as rcds are added and browse. Pls post your search results to my genforum msg.

Hope this helps. Good luck.


Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:
No followups yet

Post FollowupReturn to Message ListingsPrint Message

http://genforum.genealogy.com/conroy/messages/1323.html
Search this forum:

Search all of GenForum:

Proximity matching
Add this forum to My GenForum Link to GenForum
Add Forum
Home |  Help |  About Us |  Site Index |  Jobs |  PRIVACY |  Affiliate
© 2009 Ancestry.com