Mountmellick parish registers--Gordon

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I am seeking a birth record on William Dann Gordon [born around 1849], son of Alexander Gordon and Catherine nee Dann.  Alexander and Catherine were married [year 1848] in Mountrath in the parish of Clonenagh.  The family may have moved to Dublin by 1850 or so.  Thank you for any help.

[aghadowey]

To search for any existing church records you need to know what religion the family would have been.

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Alexander and Catherine were married in the Church of Mountrath -CoI., Arthur Moore,curate.
Thank you.

[aghadowey]

Have you checked to see if the church records still exists for baptisms in 1840s? Unsually marriages took place in the bride's church but if you are lucky it will also be the church they attended together and where they baptised their children.

[shanew147]

You mentioned a couple of different Co. Laois locations : Mountmellick, Mountrath & Ballyfin (in the other post on the family). These locations are all within about 19km but I believe these are all in different Church of Ireland Parishes. see : google map Mountrath to Ballyfin to Mountmellick

Ryans Irish Records lists separate Church of Ireland records for each area :

 Ballyfin, baptisms/marriages/burials from 1821
 Mountmellick (Coolbanagher & Oregan) , baptisms/marriages/burials from 1840
 Mountrath, baptisms/marriages/burials from 1749

I presume that these records (or copies) are available in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin and also seem appear to be in local custody. Details of the Mountmellick registers are available in the National Archives in Dublin. Some County Laois records are due to be added the pay-website of the Irish Family History Foundation later this year - their update did not mention which parishes they working on.


Shane

[corisande]

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home

Shows the record of marriage of William Dann Gordon in 1869

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Aghadowey, Shane and Corisande, thank you for replying with your information.  I haven't contacted the churches yet and the reason of all the locations I mentioned [Ballyfin, Mountrath, Mountmellick and Clonenagh] was because it was all on Alexander and Catherine Gordon's marriage record. I didn't realize that there were more than one CoI churche in that area.  Yesterday, a Dann family member graciously contacted me and told me to start checking at St. Peter's Rectory in Mountrath because the Danns were associated there for awhile.  I'm just not sure if this is the same church that the Gordons were married in but it sounds like a good starting point.

If the curate at the marriage was listed as Arthur Moore, is there a away to back track to see which church he was at?
Thank you again.

[shanew147]

...If the curate at the marriage was listed as Arthur Moore, is there a away to back track to see which church he was at?....

was that the 1848 marriage ?

he might be listed in the Ecclesiastical directory in Thom's of that year... I'll check

p.s. what exactly does it state as the location on the marriage cert ?



Shane

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Yes...Alexander Gordon and Catherine Dann were married in 1848.  It has Registrar's district of Mountmellick.  Marriage solemnized at Mountrath in the parish of Clonenagh in the Queens County.  At the bottom of the record it says "married in the Church of Mountrath according to the rites and ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland",....
Thanks Shane.