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Hi Dora:
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,700,000 surviving rcds for abt 70% 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 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 surname Clibborn in all Ireland, there are only 11 B rcds. Of this 11, 5 are in Westmeath. The earliest is in 1833 - too late for your timeline. Note - RC Irish were disenfranchised in Ireland by the penal laws. The RC Irish were virtually non-persons. All elected and appointed gov't officials were protestant. This formally lasted until 1829 and its effects persisted into the late 19th century.
For N(athaniel) Lowe B 1811, somewhere in Ireland, with the father's forename unknown, I found 0 rcds. The earliest B rcd is for 1837.
The Lowe surname is sufficiently rare (1,530 B rcds between 1734 and 1920) that it is likely Scots-Irish planted in Ireland during the reign of Oliver Cromwell. The Scots-Irish were almost always protestant and mostly presbyterian. Protestant B/M/D rcds are notoriously lacking and slipshod. The Lowe surname is widely scattered across Ireland although a slightly higher percentage (10) occurs in Westmeath. Abt 20% of the Lowe surnames appear in Roscommon.
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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