Looking for Peppers in Co. Wexford or Kildare

Ernie:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

I'm assuming your family was RC since the marriage was in the Rathangan church? Have your tried the RC parish registers at registers.nli.ie  ?  Here is the link to Rathangan  http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0592 

Roger McDonnell

Thank you for your comments Roger.  Sadly (from a FH point of view) he was not RC but C of I, as the RC church seems to have much better records.

I don't know what a "House Steward" was but neither he (Thomas Pepper) or his son (William Willoughby Pepper) ever seem to have been a house owner or a tennant so don't appear in Griffiths - very strange.  I wondered whether William always lived in a "School House"?

Thanks again, Ernie

Ernie

the Church of Ireland are slowly putting their records online, the attached link gives the online ones for Wexford but the 3rd link goes back to the homepage and the last link starts way too late, however there is a Mary Pepper born 7th February 1831 to a Thomas and Mary Pepper but no other Peppers. If the ancestor worked on a major estate the estate papers may still be around in the National Archive but we would need the estate owner but it should be possible to find them as they would ahve owned huge amounts of land, there is website Landed Estates. See baptism here http://ireland.anglican.org/about/160 

It says Connaught and Munster but some in Leinster also given. http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/index.jsp

Pat