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Title: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: nichbuket on Sunday 07 January 18 15:18 GMT (UK)
Hello,

I am trying to track down a baptism for a Charles Henry Cunningham son of Charles Cunningham and Mary nee Kelly (according to marriage/death record and living cousins).  All records I currently have for Charles---passenger manifest, naturalization, draft papers, marriage, and death record all lis Charles jr as being born 10 July 1888 in Down.  According to family we still have in Ireland, Charles and his siblings: Henry, James, George, Annie and William, were all born in Annalong, Down. 

Now the only Charles Henry Cunningham I can find any record regarding baptism is for a Charles Henry Cunningham son of Charles and Mary baptized 14 Dec 1880 Glasdrummond, Lower Mourne, Down.  So i wonder if this is my Charles and he lied about his age by 8 years or there is another baptism out there that we're missing.

The odd thing is we can't seem to find baptisms for any of the children, and we know they were very strict Catholics.

Any help in locating Jr's baptism or suggestions on where to look would be appreciated. I do have a marriage record for a Charles Cunningham and Mary Margaret Kelly 1873 Killkeel, Down.

thanks!
Nich
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 16:20 GMT (UK)
Will his birth cert do?
13 July 1888. Number 412
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1888/02509/1930235.pdf
Not registered until the 16 Aug so they may have his birth day out by a few days to avoid a late registration.

Just need to figure out if Mullerton is near where the family are said to have lived

There is a marriage of a Charles Cunningham and a Mary Kelly in 1873
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1873/11277/8136489.pdf
Would that fit with what you know about the family?
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 16:31 GMT (UK)
Plenty of Cunninghams around there....

irishgenealogy  Birth, Marriage and Death results for Cunningham of Kilkeel from 1864 to 1890

Displaying results 1 - 100 of 988. http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lab/
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 16:54 GMT (UK)
I wonder if Mullartown and Mullerton is the same place. Mullartown is very close to Annalong.
Well Annalong is sort of in Mullartown, mostly in the neighbouring townland on the old maps but starting to spill over into Mullartown.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 17:08 GMT (UK)
Kilkeel Parish records
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0433
Transcript go up to 1881 so you won't find a baptism for Charles.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 17:28 GMT (UK)
Deleted got the incorrect family.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 17:40 GMT (UK)
This one
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Mullarton/Mullartown/1235588/

I like to get a second birth to confirm
Joseph, mother Mary Margaret
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/cert_amends/cert_1898/1799807a.pdf
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 17:43 GMT (UK)
I wonder if Mullartown and Mullerton is the same place. Mullartown is very close to Annalong.
Well Annalong is sort of in Mullartown, mostly in the neighbouring townland on the old maps but starting to spill over into Mullartown.

Plenty of variations in name.....

https://www.logainm.ie/en/67056?s=Mullartown
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 17:46 GMT (UK)
I wonder if Mullartown and Mullerton is the same place. Mullartown is very close to Annalong.
Well Annalong is sort of in Mullartown, mostly in the neighbouring townland on the old maps but starting to spill over into Mullartown.

Plenty of variations in name.....

https://www.logainm.ie/en/67056?s=Mullartown
The census makes it look like it a part of Mullartown.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 17:49 GMT (UK)
Depends on the area given to the enumerator.....
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Sunday 07 January 18 19:38 GMT (UK)
Townland of Mullartown, Kilkeel parish, Co Down

https://www.townlands.ie/down/mourne/kilkeel/mullartown/
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 19:43 GMT (UK)
Townland of Mullartown, Kilkeel parish, Co Down

https://www.townlands.ie/down/mourne/kilkeel/mullartown/


https://www.logainm.ie/en/67056?s=Mullartown gives the various spellings used.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 19:55 GMT (UK)
I wonder if Mullartown and Mullerton is the same place. Mullartown is very close to Annalong.
Well Annalong is sort of in Mullartown, mostly in the neighbouring townland on the old maps but starting to spill over into Mullartown.

Plenty of variations in name.....

https://www.logainm.ie/en/67056?s=Mullartown
The census makes it look like it a part of Mullartown.

I said that backwards, should be Mullartown as part of Mullarton, ar not er
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Mullarton/
Mullarton isn't used in 1911,
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Mullartown/
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 19:57 GMT (UK)
Same place.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 20:31 GMT (UK)
Yes
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: nichbuket on Sunday 07 January 18 21:18 GMT (UK)
Thank you all! This was perfect. Now I can go on to locating Charles Sr.'s birth.

Does anyone know where I can find the 1851 mullerton census online?  I have Jr's application for Ireland, Census Search Forms 1841, 1851 which tells me he was alive and what his mother's maiden name was (Henry and Margaret McConville) but that was in. I'm hoping the actual census will provide more info as civil records appear to only go back to 1864 online and church records for the group are lacking.

Again I appreciate all the help you offered putting me in the correct district name!
Nich
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 21:20 GMT (UK)
Surviving census fragments and substitutes for 1821-51 are a valuable, if limited, resource for the pre-Famine period.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 21:24 GMT (UK)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/  you can change years from dropdown box
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: nichbuket on Sunday 07 January 18 21:27 GMT (UK)
Darn, no luck.  Thanks anyways!
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 21:28 GMT (UK)
Thank you all! This was perfect. Now I can go on to locating Charles Sr.'s birth.

Does anyone know where I can find the 1851 mullerton census online?  I have Jr's application for Ireland, Census Search Forms 1841, 1851 which tells me he was alive and what his mother's maiden name was (Henry and Margaret McConville) but that was in. I'm hoping the actual census will provide more info as civil records appear to only go back to 1864 online and church records for the group are lacking.

Again I appreciate all the help you offered putting me in the correct district name!
Nich

Can you post link to it?
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 21:32 GMT (UK)
Have you searched Wills?

http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/home.jsp
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: nichbuket on Sunday 07 January 18 21:39 GMT (UK)
Charles Jr's application for information pulled from the 1851 census.
http://censussearchforms.nationalarchives.ie/search/cs/details.jsp?id=21517 (http://censussearchforms.nationalarchives.ie/search/cs/details.jsp?id=21517)

As for wills, I found a Henry Cunningham died 1916 whose beneficiary/executor is Sarah Cunningham, but when I try to read more from the image, it is incorrect and I can't see his listing.  http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/details.jsp?id=1639475412 (http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/details.jsp?id=1639475412)

Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 21:50 GMT (UK)
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Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: nichbuket on Sunday 07 January 18 21:54 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that....wrong henry then. Should be a mason.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 07 January 18 22:01 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that....wrong henry then. Should be a mason.

Might have been a farmer when he died??
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: nichbuket on Sunday 07 January 18 22:26 GMT (UK)
I was able to pull up the civl record and it says only 56. too young to be charles father.

Searching the civil records, assuming he was still in the Kilkeel area, the only possible death for henry I see is 15 Nov 1878---a laborer, but it also says he's a bachelor.  All the other's in Kilkeel are too young to be Charles Father.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 22:27 GMT (UK)
Charles Jr's application for information pulled from the 1851 census.
http://censussearchforms.nationalarchives.ie/search/cs/details.jsp?id=21517 (http://censussearchforms.nationalarchives.ie/search/cs/details.jsp?id=21517)

As for wills, I found a Henry Cunningham died 1916 whose beneficiary/executor is Sarah Cunningham, but when I try to read more from the image, it is incorrect and I can't see his listing.  http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/details.jsp?id=1639475412 (http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/details.jsp?id=1639475412)



Father Henry, so this is Charles (the mason's on marriage) application, who gives his occupation on son's Joseph's birth as farmer.
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 22:29 GMT (UK)
Have a look at Griffith's Valuation for Henry, just for interest sake.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 07 January 18 22:33 GMT (UK)
.
,

Could be Charles' brother, has the same address as on his marriage.

Oh the image isn't showing.
Henry in the Will Calendars
Title: Re: Charles Henry Cunningham 1880-1888 Annalong, Down
Post by: nichbuket on Monday 08 January 18 01:53 GMT (UK)
Yes it would be more likely charles' brother.  thanks for the interesting link!