Ballycastle Parish Registers on-line

[oishiidesu]

Some of the parish registers for Ballycastle (includes Doonfeeny and Kilbride civil parishes) have recently been transcribed and are now on-line.  These registers include names of parents, often with maiden names, and are free to search or browse.

Marriages:  http://goldenlangan.com/bcreg-marr.html

Deaths:  http://goldenlangan.com/bcreg-deaths.html

[heywood]

Hi oishiidesu,
Thank you for this information, it's great. I have added it to the resources section.

It is very interesting. I found the marriage of my aunt's parents in law (hope you can follow that  ).

heywood

[maggbill]

woo hoooooo.... There was great excitement here today, when I actually thought that finally I would be able to access Ballycastle parish registers - even got the name of the church right - St. bridgets..... but lesson learned - I really need to read the details.  It didn't dawn on me, that this all referred to Ballycastle - County Mayo, not the Ballycastle County Antrim where my dear old uncle lived and died in 1985.  He married a local Rathlin Island girl, - one of a long standing island family - so thought i might at least get some info on her family - couldn't understand why there wasn't even one mention of her family name, nor of Rathlin Island. Duhhhhhh!

We live and learn - serves me right for forgetting that location names can be repeated time and again in Ireland.  Oh well, excitement over - Good luck to those searching Co. Mayo ancestors - Happy hunting!

[kaknmo]

Hello,

if anyone has any knowledge of Cardens in the Ballycastle area, I would be very pleased to read it.

My great grandmother was born we think in Carrowniskey, Doonfeeney, early in the 1840's.  We think her parents were William and Catherine.
She emigrated to the U.S. and married Michael Cox, (Mayo) in 1863).  She died and left five children in 1874.

Thank you,
kaknmo

[oishiidesu]

Try searching for "Carden" at http://goldenlangan.com/search.html