Hello Roger and Elwyn
Thanks for your reply. I will look at the resources in your message, thanks. I searched in person in Dublin at the NLI when we were last in Ireland, without success. Since then, I've mainly searched the NLI Parish Records on line, but because 'my' Margaret Casey (born c. 1820) couldn't be found, I'd thought that perhaps the parish records for her had been lost. My two last posts are below.
I'm not sure if you know whether some parish records are still in the possession of the local parish priest in some churches (i.e. before the dates covered by the NLI) but haven't been made available for copying/scanning? I'm aware of the 'Congregatio Pro Clericis prohibition on filming RC Records' and so I wondered if some parish records, including my Margaret, were still in existence but not made public?
Since my last post (on 14 March 2020), I accidentally stumbled on some newspaper coverage of the trial - not in Co. Cork where I'd been looking - but in Co. Limerick. This was very significant as it names the 'prosecutor' or party from whom the butter was stolen, viz. "Thomas Casey, near Charleville". This is the first time (apart from the trial itself having been conducted at Kanturk) that I've been able to pin down any location in Co. Cork where Margaret may have been living or working. She was a dairy maid, convicted for stealing a firkin of butter. Her mother and siblings may have been living elsewhere in Co. Cork, of course.
I'd like to at least find out some more about the Thomas Casey, near Charleville. He may have been an uncle, given Margaret's father is not mentioned at her trial in June 1847 - only her mother, brother and sisters.
I appreciate your help.
regards, Doug
Casey family of Co. Cork - Margaret, John, Mary and Ellen
Back in 2015, I enquired about whether anyone could help find any of the Casey family of Co. Cork. (My old post is appended below.) Now I have a new query to help find where the family lived.
Can anyone tell me the names of which newspapers might have covered Margaret's trial in June 1847 in Kanturk, pls?
Any news coverage could help with details of where the family lived or might provide some other clue.
My wife and I would travel back to Co. Cork in a flash - if we could just find the birthplace for 'our' Casey family.
Many thanks
Doug (the Casey Hunter)
Casey, Margaret Co. Cork born c.1820
What parish did Margaret Casey come from?
Margaret's mother was also named Margaret Casey and in 1847 she had sisters Mary Casey and Ellen Casey and a brother John Casey. Margaret, a Roman Catholic, was 27 at the time of her trial in Kanturk, Co. Cork on 21 June 1847. She was tried for stealing a firkin of butter (she was a dairy maid) and sentenced to seven years transportation to Van Diemens Land (now Tasmania, Australia). There's more to tell about her life in Australia, but first we'd like to find out which parish she was born in.
Is anyone living descended from John Casey, Mary Casey or Ellen Casey? Which were the likely dairying districts around Kanturk where home might have been for the family?
Many thanks, Doug
