Assistance with Gilmartin & Dwyer family from Thurles

Dear Jess:

Many thanks for your post to the Ireland Reaching Out message board and welcome to the site!

It sounds like your ancestors may have come from the parish of Loughmore also known as Castleeiny which is located adjacent to Thurles.

In the Roots Ireland database, I have found the following for Anne, Michael and Mary Gilmartin:

Name:     Anne Gilmartin     Date of Birth:     
           Date of Baptism:     06-May-1838
Address:     Not Recorded     Parish/District:     LOUGHMORE
Gender:     Female     County     Co. Tipperary
Father:     Thomas Gilmartin     Mother:     Judith Dwyer
Occupation:     Not Recorded         
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:     John Gilmartin
    Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:     Bridget Dunne

Name:     Michael Gilmartin     Date of Birth:     
           Date of Baptism:     23-Sep-1835
Address:     Not Recorded     Parish/District:     LOUGHMORE
Gender:     Male     County     Co. Tipperary
Father:     Thomas Gilmartin     Mother:     Judith Dwyer
Occupation:     Not Recorded         
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:     James Gilmartin
    Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:     Ony Bourke

Name:     Mary Gilmartin     Date of Birth:     
           Date of Baptism:     01-Jan-1833
Address:     Not Recorded     Parish/District:     LOUGHMORE
Gender:     Female     County     Co. Tipperary
Father:     Thomas Gilmartin     Mother:     Judith Dwyer
Occupation:     Not Recorded         
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:     Denis Dwyer
    Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:     Mary Carroll

In addition, there was also a Margaret:

Name:     Margaret Gilmartin     Date of Birth:     
           Date of Baptism:     11-Mar-1828
Address:     Brownstown     Parish/District:     LOUGHMORE
Gender:     Female     County     Co. Tipperary
Father:     Thomas Gilmartin     Mother:     Judith Dwyer
Occupation:     Not Recorded         
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:     John Gilmartin
    Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:     Nancy Dwyer

The parish register for Loughmore is available online through the National Library at:

https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0254

If you need further assistance, please let me know.

The best of luck with your research!

Kind regards,

Jane.

Oh my goodness Jane, thank you so much! That is wonderful! I am most grateful to you for very kindly helping me and I am rapt to have found where my ancestors were from! I will have to try and find out what happened to Margaret too! My great grandmother, Michael's daughter, was also a Margaret. I'm very excited and will look up the register, presumably will have more luck in the correct parish. I guess Thurles must be the closest biggest town as all their death entries in Australia had Thurles. Thank you again Jane! Warm regards, Jess 

No problem, Jess.  If you have any further questions, please let me know. 

All the best,

Jane.

Hello Jess,

I live just outside of Geelong in Victoria. My mother was a Gilmartin and she had an uncle Michael Gilmartin (1842-1914) who was born in Thurleside. My mothers family sailed from Liverpool 15 April 1858 and arrived in Melbourne 17 August 1858 then settled in Colac.

It seems we maybe related and would love to catch up. I intend tio be in Ireland in August 2019.

Regards Damian Burgess