james lafferty and ann hill

[chrissey]

 have discovered that my grt grt grandparents
james lafferty and ann hill

were born in ireland

james as far as i know in 1817 listed as antrim

ann in 1829

they had several children

george  samuel james and deborah williamson

i belive these children were also born in ireland i have the son jhames as born in antrim but no more than that

the family moved to scotland before the 1881 census

as they appear in greenock before 1878

i wonder where i can locate the births of the children

any help would be so appriciated

chrissey

[aghadowey]

From the children listed on IGI it looks as though you won't get any birth certificates in Ireland (civil registration of births began 1864).
However, of the Scottich birth certificates should list names of parents & date and place of their wedding.
See Scotland's People for examples of information on Scottish birth, marriage and death certificates.

[Christopher]

Hi chrissey,
What denomination were your ancestors

You may not get birth certificates but possibly you could get a copy of the birth registered in the Parish Records. Click here to see Church of Ireland Records and their Locations.

There are replies about this couple on the Renfrewshire board.

Christopher   

[aghadowey]

Christopher- does that link actually list the churches and their records? Maybe I missed something but all I could see was a general explanation with no details on individual church records.
Think Chrissey will need a more exact location other than 'Antrim' before searching church records.

[chrissey]

thankyou both

im going to get the birth cert for thier scottish born children and hopefully that will show the place of thier marrige

i think the family were roman catholic  but later marriges were in the episcopalian church in scotland

its a puzzle

thankyou again

chrissey

[stevenson]

Just a bit of information for you

         Carrickfergus Antrim criminal returns for 1839
                                  11/11/1839
             James Rafferty age 57 Roman Catholic
                       acquitted of petty larceny




Steve

[chrissey]

thankyou for that

my james would have at most of been about 20 in 1839 but it could be one of his relatives

chrissey