Stuck with tracing Irish roots

[dben]

Going round in circles trying to find Irish family. Limited knowledge on family. john Foley born abt 1840 cork ireland. married Elizabeth Barry born cork ireland 1847 found on census from 1861 in Clifton,Bristol,England.  Iwanted more from Ireland. This was the side which got me intrested in family history. Do i just give up trying too find

[sarahsean]

If you look on http://search.labs.familysearch.org they have the Irish registration indexes from 1845 listing births, marriages and deaths. I had a look for Elizabeth Barry and found several pages for Cork.
Would you know where in Cork they were from? If so you could narrow the lists down and pick out your ancestor.

Also the 1911 census for Cork is due online sometime this year  (national archives .ie)  You could search the census for any family who remained in Ireland.  Try using common names in the family to search.

Also you could try http://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com. It has birth, marriage and death records for North Cork. It has 37 Elizabeth Barrys listed so I cannot know which one is yours but if you knew of any siblings you could try those names. To look and see if it your relation is 5 euro a record which is expensive but if you were sure then you could have a look. i wouldn`t look unless you were sure though.

Good luck
regards
Sarah

[GeoffE]

If you look on http://search.labs.familysearch.org they have the Irish registration indexes from 1845 listing births, marriages and deaths.

It's not quite that easy-

"Compulsory civil registration of non-Roman Catholic marriages began on April 1st, 1845. The registration of births, deaths and all marriages commenced on January 1st, 1864. "

http://www.from-ireland.net/gene/civilregistration.htm

[aghadowey]

Also the 1911 census for Cork is due online sometime this year  (national archives .ie)  You could search the census for any family who remained in Ireland.  Try using common names in the family to search.

Foley and Barry are very common Irish surnames and it would be impossible to know if any in 1911 census were connected to John Foley and Elizabeth Barry without a great deal more information.