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markn
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Wallace
« on: Sunday 07 June 09 09:32 UTC (UK) »
Hello, I wondered whether anyone could help me. I am currently looking at my partners tree and I am stuck. The wallace family came from ireland to Canada. They are Robert Wallace(1816) and his wife Sarah Bagley(1823).  From what i know, they had there first child in 1850 in canada. I do know that I may have Roberts date of birth slightly wrong. I would appreciate any help. Thanks Mark
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Wicklow Rose
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Re: Wallace
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 07 June 09 10:38 UTC (UK) »
Hi Mark

You will need to know where Robert and Sarah came from (at least a county, preferably a townland) and their religion before you can make much progress with Irish records from the first half of the 19th century. There are no census records from that time (other than a few fragments) and civil registration of births and deaths didn't start until 1864. Civil registration of marriages started in 1845 but not for Catholics. (I've had a quick look at the LDS pilot site of Irish civil registration indexes at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;t=searchable;c=1408347, and there is no Sarah Bagley marriage for that time.)

In the absence of national records, your options are limited to local, mainly church, records. This is why you need to know the location and religion.

That said, you might be interested to know that the name Bagley, while not unfamiliar, was not particularly common in Ireland. At the time of Griffiths Valuation (a survey of heads of households carried out across Ireland 1847-1864), Bagley families appeared predominantly in county Cork. There were also a few in Kildare and just one in Antrim. There is no way of knowing which one could be Sarah's relatives.

Wallace, on the other hand, was a very common name back then. Thousands of Wallaces appear in Griffiths, across the island; more than 400 entries in Cork.

You can explore Griffiths at http://www.askaboutireland.ie, but you won't be able to pin down your partner's ancestor unless you narrow down the location.

So where does this leave you? Back to Canadian records. You'll need to exhaust every possibility in Canadian records for a mention of their origin. If you can find that, bear in mind that there is still no guarantee the Irish records you'll want to look at will have survived from that time -- they do for some locations and they don't for others.

Good luck.

Rose
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Re: Wallace
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 07 June 09 12:26 UTC (UK) »
Hi, Rose, Thank you so much for that. I will definatly go back to the canadian records. Thanks Mark
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