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Ireland / Re: Births and daily life in the Enniscorthy Workhouse/can anyone help?
« on: Tuesday 16 January 18 06:10 GMT (UK)  »
thankyou Hallmark, chinapaddy and Sinann
Re: the civil registers i have been looking at on Irish geneology; I meant the records that have an image, i haven't worked out how to access the records that refer you to volume and page (mostly earlier records).
Sinann, will the 'Ancestry' geneology site have the Catholic Parish Baptism records or do you think the National Library of Ireland is a better source. Geraldine96

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Ireland / Re: Births and daily life in the Enniscorthy Workhouse/can anyone help?
« on: Monday 15 January 18 15:28 GMT (UK)  »
thankyou Hallmark, the workhouse description sounds even bleaker than I had imagined. Do you know if families spent the whole of their adult lives in the Workhouse or did they leave the workhouse and have to re- enter due to renewed poverty at a later date?
The extract suggests that people came and went rather than stay in the workhouse for a long time.

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Ireland / Births and daily life in the Enniscorthy Workhouse/can anyone help?
« on: Monday 15 January 18 12:57 GMT (UK)  »

I have been checking civil birth records for the Enniscorthy Workhouse using Irish Geneology. All the records I have looked at start from the early 1800s. I have noticed that many of these birth records  only provide the names of the mothers. Can a knowledgeable roots chatter explain why some Workhouse records don't have the father's name and 'the occupier' George Mcguire is always the person listed as 'present at the birth'.
Are these children illegitimate? Usually birth records state 'illegitimate'                                       Are there Catholic parish baptismal records that go with the civil records of Workhouse births?
I have discovered that the entries and departures from Enniscorthy Workhouse are lost and the only paperwork you can read are the 'minutes'. These papers show that Workhouse children were often adopted or fostered by families around Enniscorthy.
Would young adolescent men and female workhouse inmates be sent to work outside of the workhouse walls as cheap labour or were they strictly confined to the Workhouse premises?

I am living in England so all the information I have found regarding Wexford is from the internet, I haven't found any websites that describe 'life' in the Workhouse at Enniscorthy but hope I'll find a Wexford based roots chatter that has all the answers. I believe visitors to Enniscorthy can do tours of the Workhouse - hopefully one day I'll manage to do this. Thankyou for any help, any links to a good website or a book on the Workhouse would also be really appreciated. Geraldine96

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Ireland / Re: Help Trace My Grandmother Bridget Mary Roche
« on: Friday 20 January 17 05:57 GMT (UK)  »
thanks wexflyer; I like the comment about not being recorded at all! That answers another of my questions about the census. Sometimes you just can't find records of the people you are looking for...

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Ireland / Re: Help Trace My Grandmother Bridget Mary Roche
« on: Thursday 19 January 17 20:24 GMT (UK)  »
Is it possible for the same person to be listed on the 1911 census in England and listed again on the 1911 census in Ireland?

If the respective censuses were carried out on different dates and a person or family moved from England to Ireland between census dates, I assume they could be recorded twice...Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks...

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Ireland / Re: Help Trace My Grandmother Bridget Mary Roche
« on: Friday 13 January 17 12:06 GMT (UK)  »
thankyou aghadowy for prompt reply; I have made a note of the info.

A DNA match with a Roche descendant has turned up on Ancestry but we don't know enough about our respective Roche backgrounds to identify the connection. The family with the Roche DNA match to me are in Australia.
I still have no conclusive proof that reveals the Irish family of my grandmother but I am keeping the search active.

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Ireland / Re: Help Trace My Grandmother Bridget Mary Roche
« on: Friday 13 January 17 08:32 GMT (UK)  »
Can someone tell me which areas are EXCLUDED on the Church records available from Irish Ge neology.

I want to check records for Waterford County, Wexford County, Kilkenny (South), Tipperary (South) and S.E. Cork. Basically all counties bordering Waterford.

It would be easier if Iishgeneology had a map to show the areas that have digitised church records

i am living in England and have to use maps, as I don't know my way around this part of Ireland. Thanks for any help..

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Ireland / Re: Help Trace My Grandmother Bridget Mary Roche
« on: Tuesday 29 November 16 09:16 GMT (UK)  »
thanks for keeping up with my search, I was seriously starting to think that the 1879 Bridget was my grandmother, I am getting to the point where all my leads are coming to a dead end.
I have asked someone in Waterford to look at a couple of photographs to see if any of the people are familiar and can connect my grandmother to a particular part of Waterford County, I am waiting for their feedback. An early portrait that I had checked was probably taken in a Clonmel studio; so that's something.
I used a Great War forum and a 'poster' said that my grandfather's service records couldn't be found via Ancestry; the site kept showing'no results'  (some of these records were destroyed in WW1). Once you have a service record you can get the diaries that describe the location and movements of the unit. I have his medal index card but haven't been able to read it as the writing is so scrambled; I am seeing my daughter this Saturday and she should have a printed copy which I can have a good look at. Medal index cards are only relevant to battle fields abroad so I am not confident that there will be anything about Ireland. I have emailed and written to Irish heritage centres and military museums to ask about the role Of Errisbeg House Co. Galway in the 1st w.war as I have a photo portrait of my grandfather with Errisbeg House, Roundstone 1919 written on the back. Most of these sites and museums don't bother replying. War records can be obtained from the MOD for a non refundable fee of £30.00. but as nothing has come up on Ancestry, I am reluctant to try it. I have learned from the Great War Forum that there's a very detailed book on the Army Supply Corps that everyone uses; it can be bought on Amazon for £45.00!! It's actually out of print, hence the price.  Otherwise I have been going through family trees that show a DNA match with me on Ancestry and that's a bit of a mine field; there are no Roches (that would be too easy), but lots of Murphys, Hogans and Mullins. Any more ideas will be very welcome...Geraldine 96

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Ireland / Re: Help Trace My Grandmother Bridget Mary Roche
« on: Monday 14 November 16 20:13 GMT (UK)  »
the other day I was checking electoral rolls for London and came across a complete Roche family working as domestics in a large London household, it was the Ancestry site and listed at the side were links to further records concerning the same family; one of the links was the Transatlantic passenger lists to new York. It wasn't until later that I started to think that perhaps this was the missing family from Michael's household at Glanworth; I haven't bothered to check it as it doesn't relate to my grandmother.
I am not sure if it was an electoral roll or perhaps the 1911 census.
Thankyou for asking your Glanworth expert. I am concentrating on the 1st world war to see if that leads me in the direction of the right 'Bridget'. (Iam trying to pinpoint the area my grandfather served as an army supply corps soldier)
I had an early portrait photograph of her that resembled the archive photographs in the Waterford Museum; the archivists kindly offered to look at this image and they think it was staged in a Clonmel studio, so that's good news. 

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