*COMPLETED* Civil Registration Births/Parish Registers - BURNS/BYRNES

[jeaster1]

Hello,

My great-grandfather, James Burns, was supposedly from Cork and born abt. 1866. I have been told by a cousin that he changed the spelling from Byrnes to Burns when he joined the Queens Own Cameron Highlander Regiment - maybe to sound more Scottish! His father was Thomas Burns/Byrnes.

Could somebody please do a look-up for me on the Civil Registration Index for Cork for James Byrnes born 1864 - 1867? If anyone has a resource for looking at Cork parish registers and finds a James Byrnes/Burns born to Thomas Byrnes/Burns, that would be even more amazing!

Thank you very much,

James

[shanew147]

The civil BMD index is online of familysearch, also included are some extracted birth from the timeframe  - see :

   Introduction to Irish Records

Do you know what part of Co. Cork your James was born ?

For parish record searches you need to know which religion the family were, and also where they lived - i.e. parish or townland. RC Parish records for part of Co. Cork (most south west county and city) are available on www.irishgenealogy.ie


Shane

[jeaster1]

Thank you.

There are so many conflicting and outdated articles online about how to find Irish records.

I do not know what part of Co. Cork he was from, unfortunately. I think they were RC as he attended mass when he moved to London. I will try these and I hope that one day irishgenealogy.ie will have all the Co. Cork records! That would really narrow them down. Thank you again and Merry Xmas

[shanew147]

The problem with the surname Byrne/Byrnes is that it is a very common surname in Ireland, so there could be a number of James Byrnes with father Thomas born around the right time.

Do you know the Occupation for Thomas ?


Shane

[jeaster1]

Yes. On James' marriage certificate in 1898 it states that he was a Railway Signalman.