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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Kerry => Topic started by: Melanie Dwyer on Sunday 16 July 17 21:44 BST (UK)
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I've been using ancestry to find members of my family for a long time and I've seemed to have reached a brick wall. My 2nd Great Grandfather was named Edward Dwyer and he was born around Kildare, Ireland in 1859. I'm looking for his parents. His children's names are Patrick, John, Elizabeth, Matthew, Mary, Michael, Edward, Nellie, Thomas, and Timothy. His wife's name was Catherine.
If anyone else has him in their tree, please reach out!
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Welcome to RootsChat Melanie, did Edward marry in Ireland and if so were any of his children born in Ireland?
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Hello and welcome :)
I am sure that people will want to help you. You give no dates or places and I know you are looking for family members.
I can see a family with several of those names living in Greenane, Kerry with Edward born Co. Kerry. Could that be your family? If so, I wonder about Kildare as a birthplace ???
Do you have Edward and Catherine's marriage details? You would hopefully find his father's name there.
Regards
Heywood
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There are children of those names registered in Kenmare to Edward Dwyer and Catherine Moriarty.
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Yes! Edward and Catherine married in Ireland and all of their children were born there!
Thanks for the help!
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Heywood,
I think that you're right about Greenane, that is my family for sure. As for the marriage details, all I have are census records that list them as husband and wife, along with their children. I have yet to find one with his parents listed.
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Is this the family?
1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kerry/Greenane/Greenane/283034/
1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kerry/Greenane/Greenane/1410233/
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Yes, that's them! I have those records, and that's the most I was able to find!
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I'll ask a Moderator to move this to the Kerry board.
It should be possible to find more, Ireland has several good free sites that can be searched.
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much!
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As heywood said their mother appears to be Catherine Moriarty
Here is a baptism and birth for Timothy, don't worry about the difference in dates that often happens when people are late registering a birth.
Baptism
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01keq/
Birth
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1895/02188/1828011.pdf
And Thomas
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ker/
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1891/02373/1885996.pdf
You have to do the Captcha and give your name and tick the little box to see them but you can check the site for the others
Links to search pages
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp
https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/
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I've been using ancestry to find members of my family for a long time and I've seemed to have reached a brick wall. My 2nd Great Grandfather was named Edward Dwyer and he was born around Kildare, Ireland in 1859. I'm looking for his parents. His children's names are Patrick, John, Elizabeth, Matthew, Mary, Michael, Edward, Nellie, Thomas, and Timothy. His wife's name was Catherine.
If anyone else has him in their tree, please reach out!
Melanie
The 1901 census shows Edward as born in Co. Kerry - was your original reference to Kildare an error? Just to make sure that the correct family is being researched.
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Father Edward DWYER
Mother Catherine MORIARTY
Children born in the Kenmare District, Co. Kerry 1876-1900
1 Patrick b. Oct 22 1876 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03028/2109886.pdf) #366
2 Mary b. Mar 13 1878 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1878/02958/2083837.pdf) #98
3 John b. Oct 10 1879 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1878/02958/2083837.pdf) #352
4 Michael b. Mar 10 1881 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02586/1955859.pdf) #64
5 Elizabeth b. May 10 1882 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1882/02776/2019261.pdf) #230
6 Mathew b. Oct 02 1883 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1883/02707/1996813.pdf) #393
7 Edward b. Jul 08 1886 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02586/1955859.pdf) #217
8 Ellen (Nellie is a derivative, possibly Ellis on 1901 census aged 11) b. Jun 08 1888 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03028/2109886.pdf) #142
9 Thomas b. Aug 25 1891 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1891/02373/1885996.pdf) #424
10 Timothy b. Oct 12 1895 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1895/02188/1828011.pdf) #242
In light of the baptisms found for Thomas and Timothy being before the civil registration dates, I would search for baptism before the date of birth in all the other cases also – people were fined for late registration at that time and gave a date that prevented this rather than a true date.
I don't immediately see a marriage for Edward and Catherine
Edward DWYER found dead Jun 05 1907 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1907/05526/4548996.pdf) #93 aged 60
Also do you want to find family going back or forward?
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Thank you all so much for all of the help, I never imagined I'd find this much information! Myluck!, I'm trying to look backward and find Edward's parents, thank you for all the hard work you've done it is much appreciated. Sinann, thank you as well for everything you've found it is all so helpful. ;D