Mitchells of Betaghstown, Clane Parish, Kildare

[Ghostwheel]

A while back I came across an old genealogy.com post, circa 2009, which definitely involved a branch of my family.  The poster I believe was a fourth cousin, and we shared a GGG grandfather named James Mitchell of Betaghstown.

Personally, I only knew of James through three sources.  Firstly, my GG grandfather's marriage certificate.  Secondly, the 1853 Griffith's Valuation.  Thirdly, his 1836 marriage and the baptisms of his children.

What amazed me was this gentleman had found the birth and death years of James and his siblings.  He also found the death years of two of the children of James, pre-civil records. But I have no idea what his source was, and haven't been able to duplicate the information.  He had the advantage of working locally and I have wondered if perhaps he found some graves or else the church had a period of records which were never put online.

James 1796-1853
Thomas 1799-1875
Christopher 1808-1876
Daniel 1810-1856

Two of the children of James:
Anne 1849-1850
Patrick 1845-1846

I haven't been able to contact this gentleman, and was wondering if someone here was clever enough to put me onto the source.

[aghadowey]

Most important question- what religion was the family?

The R.C. registers for Clane parish are just recently online-
http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0726

[Ghostwheel]

The family was Catholic. 

I've combed through the registers on the internet fairly well, I think.  Though there are some pretty early records for the parish, there is a big gap, which many of these records would seem to fall into, from 1789-1825, so far as I know there are no death records up either.

I am somewhat leaning to the idea of a grave or graves.

[Ghostwheel]

There was also a John.

John 1802-1874

[Ghostwheel]

I notice an old post on Rootschat from 2011 that lists some surnames in a Mainham cemetery in Clane Parish, Co. Kildare.  Not only is the name Mitchell included, but it seems to be remarkably close to Betaghstown.

Does anyone have any insight to where I could find out more information?  Or if the graves have been transcribed somewhere?

[Sinann]

http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/kildare/cem.htm

I didn't see the Mitchell grave but there may be other graveyards you can have a look at on the site.


http://kildare.ie/countycouncil/Environment/BurialGrounds/

See number 9, but not sure if these people would be willing to help.

[Ghostwheel]

Thanks, for the resource!  I guess the graves haven't all been transcribed.  Too bad!

I'll have to try to scrutinize the other cemeteries in the area too.  From experience, I know that a family from one townland can be buried in more than one cemetery.  It's also pretty surprising the amount of info a grave can hold sometimes.

I originally thought that a Catholic family would not have had a tombstone in the 1800s, but accidentally came across some of these lists on the internet, which have proved very fruitful.