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The RC parish registers are now free online (if that is their denomination)
Perhaps this should be a new topic. I am aware that the RC registers are online. Unfortunately with regards to my research this is not the problem.
My ancestor Catherine CARR was born in Tipperary sometime between 1842 and 1846. At the time of her marriage in 1881 she had lived in or near Dunedin, New Zealand for 6 years. Unfortunately for me the registration certificates that I have acquired to date shed little light on her origins.
Her marriage registration gives her parents as James and Mary. It was a common custom on registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages in New Zealand to give the place of birth as the nearest town although in some cases only the county or country are recorded. The certificate provided above is exceptionally detailed.
One fact in my favour is that the surname CARR is not overly common in Tipperary and I have been able to identify only one Catherine CARR who fits the brief. This Catherine CARR was born at Cullen in Tipperary in 1845 and baptised in the parish of Solohead. In 1874 this Catherine along with four of her siblings emigrated to New South Wales. Two brothers John and James had earlier emigrated to Australia and were living in the vicinity of Clarence River. As my research into this family progressed (initially with the idea of ruling them out) I found that I was able to amass information about all of the siblings from online sources with the exception of Catherine.
On the balance of probability therefore, it would appear that my ancestor Catherine CARR was born at Cullen in Tipperary in 1845 and initially emigrated to Australia with her siblings before again emigrating to New Zealand sometime in the next year. It would appear at this stage that her family in Australia lost contact with her.
Catherine is a bit of an enigma. She appears to be quite a capable person but at the time of her death not a lot of information was known about her. Catherine died in Whanganui in 1929 and is buried in the Catholic Cemetery there. Unfortunately her death registration only lists her parents surname as CARR.
My focus at this stage is in identifying possible relatives of Catherine both in Tipperary and in New Zealand to determine to what extent there was any contact.
The baptismal register from the parish of Solohead gives the children of James CARR and Mary DONNELL (O'DONNELL) as
1842 John
1845 Catherine
1852 Mary
1848 James
1855 Denis
1858 Margaret
1861 Bridget
The sponsor to the baptism of Mary CARR in 1851 was Catherine BRUTON.
According to the parish register of Solohead in 1824 a Catherine CARR married Edmond BRUTON. The witnesses were John and Catherine CARR.
On the balance of probability it would appear that James and Catherine were siblings and that their parents were John and Catherine.
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