James Mathews 1869 Blackrock, Louth, Ireland

[Sinann]

You don't need that cert.
Time to pull back and look over what you have and see if any avenue was missed.
There is no point in following another family which could lead you the wrong way entirely.

[Sinann]

James Mathews should have a birth cert, why haven't we looked for it.

[Sinann]

There are quite a few to choose from between 1866 and 1869
1866 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FY5F-CZV
And the rest
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01a1c/

There are two death which might rule out the two 1869 births as we know out man didn't die in Ireland. One of the births at least but which one.

[AngelaRohlfs]

Crud and clovers! Ok... You're right... I found an obit listing for the James Crosby in SF, CA... I will see if I can get a copy of that and maybe it will list "preceded in death by parents ______ &_____" and confirm names.that way....

I can't confirm a dob or anything other than James dad was John... That was what led me on the mcguinness route to try to approach from a different avenue

[AngelaRohlfs]

Family Bible says March 29 1869 in Blackrock but i havent found a single one anywhere with that date and marriage entry and census info reflect that it would have been 1866 so I went with that...

[Sinann]

Family Bible says March 29 1869 in Blackrock but i havent found a single one anywhere with that date and marriage entry and census info reflect that it would have been 1866 so I went with that...

You were looking for Blackrock not Dundalk.
You could start buying Certs and hope only one has a father John.
I modified my last post BTW.

Now adding to this one you do have the date 29 March which should help.

[AngelaRohlfs]

Ok... As soon as im home from work I will start over and see where I get =)

[Sinann]

FamilySearch is acting funny today, on the link I posted above the number of births has increased, when I first linked it there was only 7 with some deaths straight after, had trouble with it earlier as well. Weird.

[AngelaRohlfs]

Lol good to know im not losing my mind... Lol! I noticed that last night when I was poking around on there! I was chalking it up to being tired. Lol