Ashes of Tralee

No sign that I could find of a baptism for your Andrew, but I was able to locate a baptism of a brother Michael Ash baptised on the 11th of November 1831 in Annascaul Catholic Parish (aka Ballinvoher, Camp and Lac etc), to parents Richard Ash & Margaret Shea living at Ardinan townland. Annascual/Ballinvoher parish is adjacent and to the west of the parish of Tralee.

An image of the register showing the baptism details is available on the National Library of Ireland website - see the 2nd entry for November on the right hand page. The father's name is shown as Ricardo, latin for Richard and this has been  mistranscribed by both FindMyPast and Ancestry as 'Mick', they both have the date as 11th October 1831, instead of the correct November date.

The baptism and marriage records for the parish go back to 1829 - maybe your Andrew was slightly older than the US records suggest, and therefore baptised before the available records.

Awesome. Thanks! Any idea how I'd figure out where Ardinan townload would have been? I tried googling but didn't find anything.

The residence is not very clear - but does appear to to start with Ard... the most likely match is the townland of Ardrinane townland which is in Ballynacourty civil parish, one of the two civil parishes covered by the Catholic parish of Ballinvoher/Annascaul, the second being the civil parish of Ballinvoher.

The best site for locating townlands in the Placename database of Ireland at www.logainm.ie - this is the entry for Ardrinane townland, and there are entries for the two civil parishes in Lewis Topographical Dictionary of 1837 - Ballinvohir and Ballynacourty/Ballinacourty

I have some info if you are still looking. I have a copy of a tin type of andrew and Johanna.

Bill Ashe

Hello,

my name is Joseph  Ashe and I am a direct descendant of Andrew Ashe. He was my great great grandfather. Email me at josephashe26@gmail.com