Geneology

[liz]

Hi Guys,
Anyone endevour to dig up your family History, I'm addicted to it at the moment. I think i have more dead friends than living.(according to my children).
Anyway Just discovered that my roots to the curragh grow deeper by the second having uncovered that GGgRANDFATHER was based in the curragh from 1908, give or take a few postings, Mind you not sure about his charachter having been demoted for being drunk in charge of a horse ???I look at the photo of the soldiers home now in a slightly different light as i would imagine he may have been one of the first to enjoy the facility. x liz

[tommyhetherington]

Hi Liz,
I am also checking my roots and have gone back 4 generations and goes back as far as 1864,
I have now started on the 5th generation and have the names of these people which may bring me to 1820 or there abouts.
Much of my family history has a military background which includes the Curragh, The Boer War, WW1,WW2,
Tommy H

[liz]

Hi Tommy,
I've been doing mine for about a year now and have just discovered Kildare have put their records online to view.
You have to pay 5 euro for a detailed search but its incredible the ammount of information it holds Not just for Kildare but for most of Ireland.
I'm back to 1727 for one side of the family and 1824 for the other.
Heres a link for the site if you haven't already come across it.

brsgenealogy.com/kildare/login.php?viewIndex=1&redirect_url=quis.php

[tommyhetherington]

Hi Liz,
Thanks for that well done on your search and getting back that far, I am waiting for Laois to come on line the Kildare roots I have are only from my Mam her family are Wexford and Dads are Laois.
It takes time but the results are worth the time and effort.
Tommy H

[Sean Tracey]

Hi Tommy .Type in the word Genuki into your search engine this site is very good and there is a lot of it to help with your research hope it helps Sean Tracey.

[tommyhetherington]

Hi Sean,
Did that found loads of sites and have passed on the info to other family members who have added to my tree from your help.
Thanks
Tommy H

[tommyhetherington]

Hi Liz,
I have caught up with you I now have gone as far as 1737,so my Daughters can now see back 9 generations. Records are becoming available and I hope to have the next generation soon. Thanks again Sean
Tommy H

[liz]

Hi Tommy,
Well done on your research, I started mine on my mothers side as the names Feane and Lee were quite easy to research as they are not so common.
However I am about to try the Murpys now so wish me luck finding the right ones in Limerick as there's hundrends ..........liz

[tommyhetherington]

Hi Louis,
Just wondering about the origins of your name and the meaning behind it.
Its still snowing and its not funny hearing about you in the sun when poor Ireland comes to a halt
Tommy H

[Louis Parminter]

Hi Tommy, Basically it is an old French name Le Parmentier which was the name for the guy who adorned the vestments and other alter cloths etc in the Church. I have found reference to Parmentiers in Cathedrals in England where they were employed (They spoke French in England in thse days). My branch of the family supposedly arrived in Britain around the time of the Battle of Hastings from Normandy and they settled in a place called Tockington in Gloucestershire. We are relative blow-ins to Ireland my GGGrandfather coming over and settling in Dublin. Interestingly whilst searching the Church records in the Protestant Church for South African visitors many years ago I found Parminters in the Curragh in 1910. One my mums side her dad Richard Scales was based for a while in what is now McDonagh with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers before going off to Gallipoli and the Somme, his name was Richard Scales. Actually I am quite additicted to genealogy and have traced back many many generations and am lucky to have some original ancient family documents. We still have a family bible printed in 1650.

[tommyhetherington]

Hi louis,
Sounds good I have seen one or two programmes lately and some of the people featured have gone back as far as yourself, One family still had a chalice from around mid 1600's from their ancestor who had been a preacher. The family bible featured alot with many of the people involved.
I have gone back as far as 1770 and not 1737 as I said on another posting.
Finding time is the hard part still hoping to research more soon.
All the best for now

Tommy H

[Louis Parminter]

Hi Tommy
Yes it is fascinating stuff and quite addictive. I have a family tree software package which helps, but essentially it is all about browsing hour after hour to find the people and then backtracking the links. The Irish release of the 1911 census is great too now, but so far only Dublin is accessable and I am looking forward to seeing the other counties on line (might take a while now with the current economic climate!!) Would welcome hints on links for Irish research (particularly any free stuff). My main ones that I am looking at at the moment are Scales (limerick), Briscoe (Meath and Tipperary), Robinson (Dublin and ?)and Flynn (Offaly). I want to get together some of the old stuff I have here on the Royal Irish Fusiliers Bn 'electing' their own officers! (now there is an idea!) and some other stuff I have going back to the British times. Ha, when I joined the Irish Army some of my family reckoned I had 'joined' the enemy, but perceptions changed over the years.