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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Wexford => Topic started by: micheley68 on Thursday 16 May 24 16:51 BST (UK)
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Any suggestions for online records to determine Nicholas & Bridget’s dates of birth or marriage?
Information I have:
•Nicholas Lambert b. Ireland; birth year ranges from 1805 to 1810
married to (no marriage date/place given):
•Bridget Doyle b. Kilmannon, County Wexford, Ireland; birth year ranges from 1815 to 1820
Children:
•Mary Lambert b. County Wexford, Ireland; February 1849
•Anastasia Lambert b. County Wexford, Ireland; June 1850
•John Lambert b. County Wexford, Ireland; 09 Feb 1852
Baptism records supposedly from Rathangan? And it looks like Norristown as a location on all three.
The other children are born in Michigan, US in 1857 & 1863 and the family appears on the 1860 US census.
Thank you for any ideas!!
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Yes, those three children were born in Norristown, in the parish of Rathangan.
Norristown is located here
https://www.townlands.ie/wexford/bargy/kilmannan/bridgetown/norristown/ (https://www.townlands.ie/wexford/bargy/kilmannan/bridgetown/norristown/)
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If you look in Griffith's Valuation, published in 1853, Nicholas Lambert held a substantial farm and farmhouse in Norristown. It is therefore very strange that they later emigrated to the US - not the class of person who typically did so.
However, 20 years earlier, the tythe valuation in 1833 shows no Lambert in Norristown. That suggests that the family were not originally from there. This is consistent with there being no sign of a baptism for Nicholas or Bridget in the parish records, which are extant from 1803, though with a significant gap from 1805 to 1813.
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No sign of a marriage of Nicholas and Bridget in the Rathangan parish registers, which would suggest that she was not from that parish.
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Nicholas Lambert married Bridget Doyle on 22 November, 1847, in the parish of Bree.
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634028#page/60/mode/1up (https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634028#page/60/mode/1up)
So she was apparently not from Rathangan.
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You guys are AWESOME. I really appreciate the assistance. 🤗
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OpenStreetMap - Norristown
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3551469#map=12/52.2627/-6.6069
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Details of Nicholas's house in Norristown
https://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246832_00379.pdf (https://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246832_00379.pdf)
- Gives size, quality and building materials
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Nicholas is listed as a 10 pound freeholder in 1841, 42, 43, 44 and 46.
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Tythe valuation for Norristown, dated December 1833 - no Lambert listed.
https://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/reels/tab//004625681/004625681_00375.pdf (https://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/reels/tab//004625681/004625681_00375.pdf)