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Hi Mary:
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,800,000 surviving rcds for abt 70% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800. Cos. Donegal and Derry were recently added to the database.
Note 1 - Without a KNOWN county, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 30%.
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 the Whigham surname, there are only 5 B rcds dating from 1877 and 58 M rcds dating from 1814. There are NO B rcds for either Agnes or Martha at any date.
For M rcds, the only ones for Agnes are 2 in 1848, Co. Down. These seem about right given an 1830 DOB.
For David Carlin M 1848 (exact), Co. Down, I found 2 rcds. A view of the detailed rcds should reveal whether they married each other.
For the younger sister, Martha, suggest you google "castlegarden" or "ISTG" to find rcds for her 1850 passage to the U.S. Immigration and naturalization rcds (google "NARA") MAY show where and with whom she would reside in the U.S. This might give indirect evidence that she was related to Agnes.
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.
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