|
Pages: [1]
|
 |
|
Author
|
Topic: Where is Newbridge?? (Read 209 times)
|
sarabeth
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 35
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
Hi,
I just received my great grandmother's birth record(Mary Elizabeth Baker). It states that she was born in Newbridge, County Wicklow. Can anyone tell me where Newbridge is??? I can find a Newbridge in Kildare but not Wicklow....Help...Please!!
Sara Carroll
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
shanew147
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2686
- - Dublin, Ireland - -
|
I dont know of a Newbridge in Co. Wicklow... what district details are listed on the cert ?
Towards the top of the form there be details for
Superintendent Registrar's district
Registrars districts
district
union
and County
these should help narrow down the possibilities.
Shane
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Wilson : Cambridgeshire [Chatteris], Yorkshire [Leeds], Dublin & Australia [Sydney/NSW] | Fitzsimon : Bray, Co. Wicklow & South Co. Dublin
Hayes, Shepherd, Bickerdike, Render, Harper : Yorkshire | Doyle, Dillon, Cantwell, Roach, Clarke : Co. Wicklow
Cathcart, Wilson : Kings Co./Offaly, Dublin City & N. Ireland | Hodges : Bristol, Glos./Bray Co. Wicklow/Dublin City | Nevin : Cork
Sheridan : Dublin City | Kavanagh, Rooney, Clarke, Hughes, May, Monks : North Co. Dublin [Rush/Thomastown]
|
|
|
shanew147
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2686
- - Dublin, Ireland - -
|
there's an place close to Castlemacadam which apparently has Newbridge as an unofficial name - see : http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/ireland/map/m2147806/newbridge.html
The registration district for this area is Rathdrum. There also seems to be a couple of registrar and electoral districts named Newbridge...
Is the writing for the address on the birth cert clear ?
Shane
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Wilson : Cambridgeshire [Chatteris], Yorkshire [Leeds], Dublin & Australia [Sydney/NSW] | Fitzsimon : Bray, Co. Wicklow & South Co. Dublin
Hayes, Shepherd, Bickerdike, Render, Harper : Yorkshire | Doyle, Dillon, Cantwell, Roach, Clarke : Co. Wicklow
Cathcart, Wilson : Kings Co./Offaly, Dublin City & N. Ireland | Hodges : Bristol, Glos./Bray Co. Wicklow/Dublin City | Nevin : Cork
Sheridan : Dublin City | Kavanagh, Rooney, Clarke, Hughes, May, Monks : North Co. Dublin [Rush/Thomastown]
|
|
|
sarabeth
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 35
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
It lists Rathdrum as the registration district. I did a little research last night and found that Newbridge was renamed Avoca....Whether this is accurate or not , I don't know. She was born April 28, 1874 in Newbridge, in the County of Wicklow to James Baker of 13 Strand Villa in Clontarf (Which I guess is in Dublin) and Charlotte Forrester. The birth, however, was in Newbridge...probably where her family was...
Thanks..
Sara
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
shanew147
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2686
- - Dublin, Ireland - -
|
Had a look at the Co. Wicklow map in Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) and just to the north east of Castlemacadam is a town and a bridge over the river Ovoca - labelled New Bridge.
there's no bridge shown at the location on a later map (c1840).
I had another look at the 1840s map and realize I was not looking at the same stretch of the River Avoca .. so I didn't see that the bridge. The area just to east of the bridge is captioned Newbridge and in the townland of Kilmagig Lower. The area is about 200m south of where Avoca town is now.
Shane
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: Friday 23 October 09 13:05 UTC (UK) by shanew147 »
|
Logged
|
Wilson : Cambridgeshire [Chatteris], Yorkshire [Leeds], Dublin & Australia [Sydney/NSW] | Fitzsimon : Bray, Co. Wicklow & South Co. Dublin
Hayes, Shepherd, Bickerdike, Render, Harper : Yorkshire | Doyle, Dillon, Cantwell, Roach, Clarke : Co. Wicklow
Cathcart, Wilson : Kings Co./Offaly, Dublin City & N. Ireland | Hodges : Bristol, Glos./Bray Co. Wicklow/Dublin City | Nevin : Cork
Sheridan : Dublin City | Kavanagh, Rooney, Clarke, Hughes, May, Monks : North Co. Dublin [Rush/Thomastown]
|
|
|
sarabeth
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 35
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
Thanks Shane!!! I have been to Wicklow several times and have actually been to Avoca...They were filming a scene from Ballykissangel when I was passing through in 1997!!
Sara Carroll
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
sarabeth
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 35
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
Sorry to disappoint you...My Carrolls came from County Cork....on my Dad's side. My Wicklow people were on my mom's side... Keep digging!!
Sara Carroll
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Pages: [1]
|
|
|
|
|
