Catholic Priest records

[pet50ite]

Thank you Maiden Stone,
I'll have to set a day aside this week and try all of those options. My feeling is that it was probably my 2x gt. granddad's brothers because we already have some of my gt. granddad's brothers and they were definitely not priests. I will look for newspaper reports for both generations though.

[aghadowey]

I tried searching for possible Sinnott brothers as priest in the newspapers but unfortunately there were just too many 'Father Sinnott' entries. Might be worth contacting their home parish to see if there are any records of so many brothers becoming priests.

[pet50ite]

I'll try that. Possibly Ballyoughter and St. Andrews in Dublin?  Hopefully I will have my head on straight tomorrow 

[pet50ite]

By the way, I forgot to say thank you to you all for the help I've been given

[culbaire]

Do you have any idea of the date of birth or death of your 2x gt. granddad?

[eadaoin]

Thoms Directory 1922 has an Ecclesiastical Directory - includes Catholic priests.

But - I don't know how much further back this went . .

[Wexflyer]

Church directories listing the Catholic clergy in Ireland have been published continuously since 1836. These do not give biographical details.

For the secular clergy of the diocese of Ferns there a reference work, including biographical details, aptly named
"The Secular Priests of the Diocese of Ferns", by John V Gahan, 2000.

As the name implies, it does not include regular clergy.
There are 24 priests by the name of Sinnott listed.

[pet50ite]

Culbaire, my gt. granddad, James Sinnott was born in 1859 and died in 1919.

Eadaoin, I will have to go back to FindMyPast directories sections and check the years I want. I just assumed that the Parish Priests would only be in the church section so only looked there.

Wexflyer, is the reference work you mentioned online somewhere?

Thank you all for your suggestions

[Wexflyer]

Wexflyer, is the reference work you mentioned online somewhere?

If you mean the book on the Ferns clergy, then no - it won't be out of copyright for another 60 years! But inter-library loan works, people seem to forget about that.

If you mean the Catholic Directories, then these are online in quite a few places, but I don't think they are very useful.