I am trying to trace my great, great, great Grandfather, Edward Fitzpatrick who was born in 1792 (ish). He left Ireland at some point and married Margaret Knowles in Whitehaven, England on 8th May 1813. My family passed down word of mouth that his family hail from Ballaghaderreen but I have no evidence to support this at the moment. I believe his father was also called Edward Fitzpatrick. Any information would be wonderful.
rhiannonsdad
Sunday 13th Jan 2013, 12:14PMMessage Board Replies
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I have a list of sites sir that mite help you in your seach. Good luck with it.
Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093 The National Archives of Irelandhttp://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/ The National Library of Irelandhttp://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx The National Archives UK ? genealogy search:http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/ The Public Records Office of Northern Irelandhttp://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm Irish Newspaper Archives:http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/ The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml
Connaught Ireland
Thursday 14th Feb 2013, 02:08PM