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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 the surname Coffey (+70 variants) in Ireland there are 6,941 B rcds. In Co. Westmeath, there are 1,051 B rcds dating from 1750 and 412 M rcds dating from 1731.
For William Coffey B ???? in Co. Westmeath with a father forenamed John, I found 5 rcds: 2-1759, 1822, 1826, and 1873. The 1873 rcds seems the most likely fit for your timeline assuming Westmeath is the correct county.
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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