Hi - new arrival here and seriously challenged finding info on my Great Great Grandfather - any ideas/advice greatly appreciated on how to dig deeper.
So here is what I have on this specific request:
- Arthur and Elizabeth Byrne in 1901 Census residing in House 1, Ballinglen, Co. Wicklow are my great grandfather and mother.
- Arthur died in 1907 (from a probate record recording his death in Ballinglen and with him leaving funds for Patrick J. Byrne (Builder) his eldest son)
- They had 6 children, 2 of whom were living in Ballinglen House 1 in 1901, Denis (later emigrated to NZ) and Arthur
- Their eldest son Patrick who was working in Newbridge in 1901 as a carpenter aged 20 and is recorded at that location (boarding in a house whose owner's daughter he later married!)
- His daughters Margaret, Elizabeth and Anne I am trying to track down - not much progress to date (Anne apparently was re-named Sister Thaddeus and emigrated to Texas).
So on the weak assumption that perhaps Arthur's parents were also from the area I found a Charles Byrne and wife Anne (nee Murphy? - poorly written record) in parish baptismal records with their son Arthur - the only Arthur baptized in records for the general area in 1848, the birth date of Arthur my grandfather.
So to my request for help in trying to validate that Charles might be the father of Arthur and if not, any ideas on tracing Charles and Anne Byrne, as to date I have had no lucky x-referencingnames/locations in the National Archives etc. but could very easily be missing something!!
Thanks in advance, C.