Bridget Miller was born 1838 to Thomas MILLER and Annie KING, HolyCross Tipperary. She migrated to Australia. and married Peter Laurence MYERS in NSW 1872.
Would love to know about the King and Miller families of Tipperary, and the town. of HolyCross
kind regards Marg
Holycross is actually the name of a civil parish (an administrative district) in Tipperary, about which you can see more info here:
https://www.townlands.ie/tipperary/holycross1/
Within that civil parish, there is also a townland (a smaller division of land) with the same name, about which you can see more info here:
https://www.townlands.ie/tipperary/eliogarty/holycross/holycross/holycr…
The local Catholic parish is called Ballycahill and Holy-Cross, and the parish records which are available (free) online go back to 1836, so you may be able to find some useful baptismal and marriage records there, at this link:
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0243
Baptismal records usually indicate the townland in which the family lived.
Marg:
The subscription site Roots Ireland has Bridget's baptismal date as November 11 1835 at Holycross with the parents names in your message. They also show a William Miller with parents Thomas Miller and Anne King baptized on December 13 1835 at Holycross. Obviously there was a mistake or there were two different Thomas Miller/Anne King couples
I then went back to the actual parish register and found Bridget's baptismal date as November 11 1838 which is the year you indicated in your message.
This is the second transcribing mistake I have found with Roots Ireland in the last week.
The marriage likely occurred before records are available. Baptismal records for older children before William would not be available.
The 1850 Griffiths Valuation head of household listing shows a Thomas Miller in Garrynamona townland in Ballycahill civil parish. I'm sure this is your ancestor.
https://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/tipperary/ballycahill.htm
Roger McDonnell
Thank you for all the replies. So my next step might be to look up deaths in this parish? To find out what happened? or cemetery records? cheers Marg
Marg:
The RC parish of Holycross does not appear to have any death records pre-1864. Civil registration of deaths started in 1864. I searched on the free site www.irishgenealogy.ie from 1864-1900 in the Thurles registration district (which includes Ballycahill parish) and did not see a Thomas Miller or Anne Miller record. Maybe they passed pre-1864 or if they died after 1863 the death was not recorded or they moved to a different area of Ireland or emigrated. Difficult to know.
Roger