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You can use freebmd to look for his parents marriage www.freebmd.org.uk

Census info is free www.familysearch.org to establish his parents names

Thanks. I've checked this but not sure of parents names. I suppose I need to order birth certificate first.

Have you contacted any descendants of his siblings?

Here is one link..........

https://www.geni.com/people/John-Parsonson/6000000037356082750

His parents & siblings (all ?) emigrated to New Zealand.


Minniehaha.

I am a descendent of one of his siblings who did not emigrate and can confirm that I am related to both NZ side of this man's family and the Australian side and it was I who proposed the connection in the first place to John F Parsonson as he was the only sibling who emigrated to Australia whose death I could not trace. Unbelievable and amazing story of a double life

There were fees and fines for not registering BDMs
If there was no will or probate issue many women and children's deaths were not registered right up into the late 1900s (my own grandmother's death was not recorded in 1965!)

In the mid 1800s many issues add to "missing" records
- Catholic records were not kept; or kept in hiding until after the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829 and Catholic emancipation which told several decades to be brought in in full; therefore not every parish has records or if they do full records
- literacy was low so names can be misspelt by the person recording the event
- numeracy was based on seasons or notes held and many miscalculated ages or attempted to calculate based on others' ages
- Records are dependant on who was completing them and in some books you can see a large period is missing when it is more probable it was not completed rather than nothing occured
- many women stayed younger for longer in the hope of marrying?
- by 1900 many men and women started to age dramatically in the hope of a pension! The age difference between the 1901 census and the 1911 census can be many years more than just ten!

I would err on the side of keeping notes of all things probable until undisputedly refuted
It is far easier than having to search again in the future!

Great advice - thank you. Now just to find what happened to the siblings! Probably went to Canada/USA

Civil Marriage record LINK
Church Marriage record LINK unfortunately does not show mother's name
Marriage of Margaret CROTTY in Jan 1870 on the same page

Baptism of Margaret CROTTY on Jul 12 1838 LINK
half way down left hand page and difficult to read
parents William CROTTY and Margaret SHERIDAN of Lahard

I cannot see a baptism for Thomas or a marriage for William and Margaret

HOWEVER! editted to add

1841 census shows CROTTY family at Lahard LINK
Age for Margaret ties in with the baptism shown
Age for Thomas implies he was born c1829

A William CROTTY is shown at Lahard on the Griffiths Valuation LINK
This could be the father or son however

I also found this return: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/c19/007246503/007246503_00220.pdf

which suggest that a Bridget was the mother of William Crotty until she died in 1835 - would explain why eldest daughter is called Bridget and a younger one Margaret.