Thread: look up Monaghan born Wexford 1864

I am looking for the birth baptism ans the parents for Mary Ann/e Monaghan b 1864 Wexford Ireland. and any siblings etc.



Any help with this greatly appreciated.





Also James Smith b Ireland 1851 and his family etc.Not known wherein Ireland James was born for sure





Thanking you in anticipation





Ecclescake

Statutory records of birth, death & marriage records started in Ireland in 1864 (1845 for Protestant and Non-Conformist marriages). Prior to that you are heavily dependant on church records, where they exist. In general, there are few records prior to 1800.
Ideally, to trace an ancestor in Ireland through church records you need to know their religion, townland and parish. To find that information if the person died overseas, the usual sources are naturalisation records, gravestones, family bibles, wills and obituaries.

Some Irish BDM records are searchable on line on the LDS pilot site, but a lot of records are still held by the church (some churches have declined to allow their records to be copied) and so this website is not a complete picture:

FamilySearch Record Search


For the Republic of Ireland copies of many parish records are held by the National Library National Library of Ireland - Homepage
The records themselves are not on line and you need to search them in person.
Elwyn