A couple of Irish queries

As I am new to this please excuse my questions below. I do not know the etiquette yet.
Is there anyone in here specializing in Ireland. Or better yet that can do a lookup in roots ireland. Not sure what/where to look next.
my two brick walls are
1) William Reddam in Sligo.
I have him married to a catherine Darby in 1882 and a Sarah McLaughlin in 1866. Can not find anything else, birth, etc.In 82 marriage he is listed as a widower so I take it Sarah died. It also lists his father name as William also. Mother listed as Maria Giblin. Family rumor says family was from UK before sligo and catherine family was from scotland though she was born in dublin. Have yet to find census proof yet and do not know where to look.
2) Peter William Costello married to a Ellen Kennedy in Killkenny. Someone found the marriage in 1819 at the ossory there. No birth dates of either known.
I appreciate very much any advise. I am a paper tiger. that is, I need to see a copy of what is found. Little trust in someone else's tree.
a fellow genealogist,
Ron Reddam

 

Hi Ron.....had a thought or two. A very good friend who is not on here (and should be as he was a volunteer for 10 years at the Brampton FHC), is researching both Scottish and Irish relatives. I am going to fire your information off to him and invite him to join here. He is a "fount of knowledge". That post on the PEI group the other day got me thinking outside the box. Thanks!!

 

I'm not an Irish expert by any means, but if they were Catholic have to tried looking here.

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https://registers.nli.ie/

 

I take it that you have 12th April 1866 for his marriage to Sarah,her father is listed as James.from fmp...

 

yes thanks. have been told Roots Ireland has info not found anywhere else hence my request

 

thanks yes, looks like first marriage, second in 1882 to catherine in which he is listed as widowerer. Hoping someone has Roots Ireland to do a look-up.

 

I accept all help graciously especially from a FHC volunteer, who have been great in the past to me through the Etobicoke site.PM me for better contact info.

 

cannot find anything on her father, james.

 

The link is to the National Library of Ireland and its free to use.

 

Don't know if you already know, there are no census records for Ireland 1861 71 81 or 91 all distroyed. Not much help to you in tracing your ancestors is it. Sorry I can't help...good luck..Val...

 

Ron.......if there are no Census records for decades, it looks like you may have to bite the bullet and get a membership for Roots Ireland. We can't help if the data is not there. Sorry about that.

 

Hi Ron & Welcome to Top Dog

I too am a "paper tiger" (nice expression that!).
I had a foray into Irish records last year (Mayo & Sligo) - difficult, but wonderful when you can see the originals.

As has been mentioned, there are very few Census records (the English ordered them all to be destroyed).

These are the (free) websites that I found helpful:
www.irishgenealogy. ie/en/
https://registers.nli. ie/
www.genealogy.nationalarchives. ie/
http://kilmacteige. com/
http://www.irelandoldnews. com/
http://www.from-ireland. net/
(I've broken the above, in case they have a commercial link)

Happy Hunting!
Jane

 

Thanks, Jane for the links. I, too, have just begun my Ireland search. These will be invaluable websites.

Pat

 

still hoping someone can do a roots ireland look-up. worth the chance, no harm asking.

 

sorry but a lot of links do not work

 

Retype them in to your search bar as Jane broke them either with an extra / or whatever in case they were a link to a commercial site.

 

I may be wrong, but I don't think there's anyone here that has a subscription to that website Ron. Are you on facebook? I found a Donegal genealogy page and they were very helpful. Maybe there's a Sligo one. Sorry best I can do.

 

I'm going to check that out!

 

Ron -
Close the space before the "location" (ie/com/net).

(One of Top Dog's rules is "no direct links to commercial sites" ... or words to that effect! I'm not too good with technology, so I just stick a space in, in case!)

Jane