Hi there, I wonder if you can help fill some gaps around two of my ancestors from County Wexford:
Peter Cleary, born 1821, Kilmore, County Wexford
Owen Roche, born c.1842, Wexford (City, I believe)
Both of them emigrated, as many did, to England later in the 19th Century (Peter Cleary in the 1840s, I believe), and Owen Roche after March 1869 (as that's when my great grandmother, Mary Bridget Roche, was born in Macroom, Co. Cork), where there are quite clear records, but what I'm interested in is information on their lives in Ireland, and particularly about their parents/grandparents. Any help or guidance would be very much appreciated!
You could help us to help you if you could provide some more information:
Peter Cleary
What is the source of the knowledge that he was from Kilmore, Co. Wexford.
When/where/who did he marry?
Occupation?
Owen Roche.
There is no Wexford City, I presume you mean the town? Again, what is the source of the indication that he was from there?
Did he go by any other name other than Owen?
Where/when/who did he marry?
In particular, I fid it perplexing that if Peter was from Wexford, then why would his daughter have been born in Macroom, Co. Cork?
Occupation?
Mary Roche
You say there are clear records for her birth in Macroom in March 1869. Can you reference these? Civil registration? Baptism? I can't see either.
Mother's name?