I知 a new member trying to trace my Irish roots

[Daniel1958]

Hello Daniel and welcome to RootsChat

Do you live in Ayr, Scotland or Ayr, Queensland, Australia?  Perhaps you could modify your profile to let people know.  Sometimes where you are can help people answer your queries.

Irish genealogy is notoriously difficult, though from the dates given at least your 'happenings' are since civil registration in Ireland     

Good luck with your quest

Dawn M

Thank you for the advice Dawn I have altered my post to say I am from Ayr Scotland

[Daniel1958]

Thanks very much for the information. Much appreciated.

[Daniel1958]

My birthday is 10th October so it is interesting and exciting to see that Edmond Wilson O担ullivan was born on 10th October.
When the family moved from Dublin to Belfast I believe they dropped the O and were known then as Sullivan.
Would this have been common practice then?

[Daniel1958]

An Edmond Wilson O'Sullivan was baptised in St. Paul's, Dublin, on 27 October 1859 (born 10 October), parents recorded as John & Ellen (Wilson), detail at no. 1847 below:

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633669#page/42/mode/1up

Thank you for the information Gaffy

[Daniel1958]

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/d5ca472198981?b=https%3A%2F%2Fcivilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie%2Fchurchrecords%2Fcivil-perform-search.jsp%3Fnamefm%3DEdward%2B%26namel%3D%26exact%3D%26name2fm%3D%26name2l%3D%26location%3D%26yyfrom%3D1882%26yyto%3D1882%26century%3D%26decade%3D%26type%3DM%26sort%3Ddate%26pageSize%3D100%26ddBfrom%3D%26ddMfrom%3D%26ddDfrom%3D%26ddPfrom%3D%26mmBfrom%3D%26mmMfrom%3D%26mmDfrom%3D%26mmPfrom%3D%26yyBfrom%3D%26yyMfrom%3D%26yyDfrom%3D%26yyPfrom%3D%26ddBto%3D%26ddMto%3D%26ddDto%3D%26ddPto%3D%26mmBto%3D%26mmMto%3D%26mmDto%3D%26mmPto%3D%26yyBto%3D%26yyMto%3D%26yyDto%3D%26yyPto%3D%26locationB%3D%26locationM%3D%26locationD%3D%26locationP%3D%26keywordb%3D%26keywordm%3D%26keywordd%3D%26keywordp%3D%26event%3D%26district%3D%26submit%3DSearch%26pager.offset%3D200

Thank you for the information
Hi Cwellan,

I hope you don't mind as I'm unsure if you or some others may not know, at the bottom of each page/thread, in the brown coloured portion, 2nd column, below where it says 'Your Tools' (written in white), there's a link which has "ShrinkLink (make long links short)" where you can input long links & end up with this...

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Which is a link to your original long link...

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/captcha.jsp

A very useful thing & saves a lot of space especially when using a link to a source in your tree or anyones tree.

Annie

[aghadowey]

There's already a thread here on the Sullivan family with information posted in the last few days-
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=792186.msg6482950#msg6482950

[gaffy]

... When the family moved from Dublin to Belfast I believe they dropped the O and were known then as Sullivan.
Would this have been common practice then?

Certainly not unique, it was a known practice.

(O')Sullivan and Wilson were common surnames, so there is every chance that there were more than one John and Ellen couple, which is why I used the word 'possible' at reply #3.  The same applies here, civil registrations for a Mary born in 1864 and a John Florence in 1866, father described as a merchant / agent living at 75 Talbot Street:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1864/03628/2339300.pdf

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1866/03543/2304185.pdf

If not your John & Ellen, better to know that and eliminate them, so just to note until you can rule in or out accordingly.

[gaffy]

Bingo! Look at the following Wills and Administrations Calendar entry (left page, bottom entry):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT93-9MHM?i=385&cc=1921305

Can be seen here as well:
http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/details.jsp?id=1639268923

I think the children at my reply #15 are now less likely... but my reply # 3 is looking good.

[gaffy]

From the Limerick Reporter of 11 May 1852:

At Finglas Church, John Edmund Sullivan, Esq. of Dalymount, to Ellen, daughter of John Wilson, Esq. of Violet Hill, county of Dublin.