Edward O`Brien

[dave page]

Hi,
I`m looking for any info on an Edward O`Brien from Skibbereen, Cork born approx 1868. He may have seved in the Boer War. He father was active in the 1867 Fenian uprising and was on the run with his brother afterwards. The family ended up in Cardiff. When the father died approx 1910 there was a large parade through the streets. Edward worked on the docks and died of flu in 1918. He was married to Ellen Gallivan.

[skibbgirl]

If you have access to a Mormon Family History Library and can order the films, you could view the films for 1868 containing Skibbereen and take a look.

These films are:

101164 (vol 5 - first quarter), Skibbereen district on pages 667-698
101169 (vol 10 - second quarter), pages 749-784
101174 (vol 15 - third quarter), pages 575-596
101179 (vol 20 - fourth quarter), pages 567-590

Skibbereen has 4 local registration offices:  Drimoleague, Skibbereen, Tullagh, and Union Hall, which are all included in those pages.

[agho]

the RC records for Skibbereen are on www.irishgenealogy.ie  you will need to know his parents names to identify him. O'Brien is quite a common name.

[skibbgirl]

Dave,

I just searched this index

https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1408347&hash=Mrd8SMocDIIen2Q83tu%252B82PRagg%253D

and am not finding an Edward Brien in the civil registration index for Skibbereen around 1868  - there is one later.  So assuming the online index is accurate, resorting to look at the data films when there is no index entry in most cases will not lead to any new revelation. (Though errors do occur in the index.)

His birth may not have been registered in the Skibbereen district, requiring a broadening of the search, or maybe there is alternative form of the name.   Clonakilty (esp. Tullineasky area) has a relatively heavy concentration of O'Briens for that part of the country.

There is one Edmond Brien registered in the Clonakilty district in 1865.