Hello & Happy New Year
I have been looking at my mother’s side of the family for a short while now and thankfully I have not had too much trouble locating information using Scotland’s People genealogy website. Now I’m looking in Ireland it’s a different story, I just keep going around in circles. Proni & Groni are helpful but limited I’ve actually found irishgenealogy.ie a far better, quicker site to navigate around but sadly I’m going nowhere fast locating birth records/baptisms for both my great granddad Patrick Steele, born 1849? & Mary Jane (Mc Lean) Steele, born 1858? my great grandmother. I believe both were brought up in the county of Antrim, region of Ballycastle within the parish of Ballintoy. They were married at Ballintoy parish church on the 2nd of June 1876, they had 5 children each were baptized in the same Ballintoy parish church. The only other information I have is Patrick’s father was called Alexander Steele, and mother Annie (Kane) Steele, Mary’s father was James Mc Lean and mother Ann (Cain) Mc Lean. This information seems a little suspect but since I’ve not been doing this long I’ve bitten all my nails and started to rock myself back and forwards whilst resting my chin on my hand. I’m now stumped and in need of assistance, please if anyone can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.
thank you Colin