Thread: Casey family Tyrone

The birth and marriage are before the start of statutory registration of births & RC marriages (1864), so to trace any BDM events in the 1840s you’ll need to rely on church records. There’s no central index and to check records you really need to know the person’s religion & townland or parish.

There is a Bernard Casey listed in Griffiths Valuation (1856-64) who rented 3 areas of land in Evish townland, just east of Strabane.

www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml (You can also Google BT82 on Google Maps and you should see Evish Rd).

He’s the only Bernard Casey in Tyrone in Griffiths but it is not a comprehensive census of the county and so you shouldn’t leap to the conclusion it is definitely your family. If you have no other leads, you might want to look parish records, assuming they exist, to see if that Bernard Casey married an Annie Kelly and had a son Daniel. I assume they were RC. If so, details of the parish records that exist are on the following site:

www.from-ireland.net/tyr/tyrindexrc.htm#32

The originals are usually in local church hands, with copies in PRONI Belfast and the National Library Dublin. From a quick glance, the civil parish is probably CAMUS and the nearest RC church Sacred Heart in Strabane but you’d need to check locally in case I am wrong. (Try the church itself, the parochial house or the local library).

There was a death registered in Strabane 1876 Volume 2 page 313 for a Bernard Casey b 1816. It was the only one in that county around the time you are looking at. You can get a photocopy of it from GRO Roscommon for €4.


Elwyn