Thread: julia

Julia Lynch married James Murray in January 1876, in Wigan, and resided in the Goose Green area of the town.
Most census returns and other documents show her to have been born circa 1852 in Queens County (now County Laois) Ireland. I have been unable to find a likely birth/baptismal record for her, and am posting this in the hope someone may succeed where I have failed!

Hi Tiznoo.

There is a chance you may be able to find something on this site:-

Laois (Queens) Genealogy Archives

hope so finbar, thanks for reply :-)

Arless Parish Records
I was lucky enough to find most of mine on here

Statutory registration of births only started in Ireland in 1864 and so you won’t find a birth certificate for Julia. You will have to rely on trying to find her baptism in parish records. To do that, ideally you need to know her religious denomination and the parish she came from. Her father’s name would also help. You should be able to get that from her marriage certificate.

I’d guess she was RC. You can see what RC parish records survive for Laois on this site:

Roman Catholic records

RC parish records were often written in Latin so you may be searching for Iulia rather than Julia.