Is there a 1928 Electoral Roll of Cork?

[carol8353]

Is there an accessible 1928 electoral roll of Cork?

I have the address of 14 Rock Buildings, Blarney Street, Cork,on an Oct 1928 passenger list to Australia.

Is there anyway to tell who else was living at this address please.

Carol

[Sinann]

Don't know of any electoral roll for Cork online but had a look at the newspapers and there is one result for that full address and as luck would have it, it's for 1928.

Irish Examiner Jan 5 1928
Ellen Murphy (address) was suing an insurance company re the life of Denis Murphy deceased.

I'll play around with the address see if anything more comes up.

Edit Denis was her grandson, policy taken out 1925, he died a year and half later.

Only other result is a Mrs O'Connell general dealer in 1905.

Denis Murphy's death cert
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1927/04969/4352932.pdf

Edit again, found a tiny bit more, Ellen was living at that address in Oct 1924.

[carol8353]

Sinann,

That's brilliant,that is the surname I need.

Thanks so much.

Carol

[Sinann]

 

[carol8353]

Am I right in thinking that legal adoption did not happen in Ireland until the 1950's?

The person I am tracing was born in the workhouse on 2nd March 1912,his name was Michael Cotter (to single mum Mary Cotter).


http://www.rootschat.com/links/01pue/

We were told that he was 'adopted' by the Murphy family,and in Oct 1928 he travelled to Australia on his own aged just 15 as Michael Murphy.The address on the passenger list was 14 Rock Buildings Blarney Street Cork.

Which was only 15 months after Denis Murphy died age 19 at the same address.
I am trying to pinpoint him and his gran Ellen in 1911 in a bid to try and prove the link between the Cotter's and the Murphy's.

Carol

[Sinann]

Found a Mary Rogers aged 10 living at 14 Rock Buildings in 1933 so looked for a Rogers Murphy marriage
and found this one 1916 Henry Rogers Margaret Murphy 14 Rock Buildings father Denis
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1916/09790/5553977.pdf

[Elwyn Soutter]

Am I right in thinking that legal adoption did not happen in Ireland until the 1950's?

Yes that's correct. Northern Ireland introduced it about 1927 along with England but in the Republic of Ireland it was the early 1950s.

[carol8353]

Thanks both of you,I will take a look at that Murphy marriage and see if I can pinpoint the right family in 1911.

[Sinann]

Possible for Margaret's birth 1893 mother Ellen Kelleher but father Denis is a car owner.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1894/02266/1851676.pdf
Last on the page.

This one looks better
1894 90 Rocks Buildings mother Ellen Barry father Denis a labourer.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1894/02255/1848187.pdf