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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Waterford => Topic started by: kturner3220 on Saturday 29 July 17 14:28 BST (UK)
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I have been searching for ancestor records in Tallow (townland) Waterford (county)
I have accessed the IreAtlas site to get the remainder of information.
My question is on a marriage certificate I have found, and on documents that my greatgrandfather had, they list they were from Bishoptown, or sometimes Bishoptown lower.
Birth and wedding certificates all list Roman Catholic Church of Lismore (which I do not see anywhere either) in the Registers District of Lismore in the Union of Lismore in the County of Waterford.
Trying to narrow down my search. Appreciate the help.
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Welcome to Rootschat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_townlands_of_County_Waterford
Link gives list of townlands Co Waterford. There is a Bishopstown listed but this one is located in east Co Waterford, Lismore is located in north west Co Waterford. I dont know if there is a second Bishopstown located in Co Waterford.
http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0112 Link Lismore RC parish registers. Scroll down on this link to see a map of the parishes.
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As conahy calling said there doesn't appear to be a Bishopstown in the Lismore Reg District http://www.swilson.info/regdistmap.php?gregdistid=101 (if you click on each of the Civil parishes it will give you a list of townlands in each CP)
however if you use the Locality search on the OSI mapviewer it has a Bishopstown in the townland of Ballinaspick South (Red+) but there is nothing marked on any of the maps
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,603360,594824,8,3
it may be a case of the family continuing to use a placename that had long fallen out of use officially.
I had this situation with one of my families, they are the only family using a place name which isn't marked on any maps, among other things it helped that I was able to pin point the family in Griffith's Valuation in the townland where the unused name used to be located perhaps you can do the same, that is find some of the family in Ballinaspick South.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch
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Thank you so much conahy calling and Sinann. I have been doing research everywhere on the counties and townlands.
I agree Sinann that my case may be similar to yours. Fingers crossed.
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When I tried this at first the result just said Bishopstown but I clicked on the name of the business there and now it will only give me the name of the business, the word Bishopstown won't show but you can see it's the address of the business there.
https://goo.gl/maps/bNt1gCdgsaA2
zoom out and you can see a stud farm called Bishopstown as well.
Bishopstown also appears in the Lismore Parish Register
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632262#page/6/mode/1up
Marriage number 7 Ellena Healy
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Sinann
I do see that. My Grandfather listed on his ship register to the US that he was Tallow lower Bishoptown. This Bishoptown is very close to Tallow so I think this might be it. Gives me a fresh place to look for further records. Thank you so much.
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Are you aware Bishopstown is the old name for Cobh?
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Are you aware Bishopstown is the old name for Cobh?
Welcome to RootsChat.
Cobh is in County Cork and is also in the Registration district of Cork, it also would appear as Queenstown or Cobh on certs since the date Civil Registration started in 1864.
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Welcome Hamptonwick
No I was not aware. I had come across some research that did say Bishoptown was in cork and was two town lands
"Bishopstown consists of two townlands which are Ballineaspigmore and Ballineaspigbeg (sometimes spelt Ballinaspigmore, etc.).[2] It is near the city of Ballincollig, a satellite of Cork City."...source was Wikipedia, so not super sure of reliability.
Thank you again Sinann. I am broadening my search.
I had limited myself to Tallow and Lismore, but was not getting much.
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Or did you mean Cove in Waterford City?
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,662144,611306,9,7
That would be in the Registration district of Waterford.
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Sinann
Wow it becomes overwhelming quick doesn't it...lol.
I will add that to my search.
I have looked back at the records I have and they list Tallow/ Bishoptown lower. I think maybe the first area you gave me is closer, but I am opening it up.
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I think that Cove/Cobh is a red herring, it has to be in the registration district of Lismore and if you have a record with Tallow on it than I think the Ballinaspick area is correct.
If you want to give the family name and a link to a Civil registration record or details to find it I could try checking some more.
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I tried searching for Bishopstown Tallow and found a recent death so I looked up the address on Eircode.
On second thoughts I'll PM you