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Elizabeth Moore my brick wall

Hi

I am looking to find information on my 2x great grandmother Elizabeth Moore.

The only information I have is from the 1871 England census. It has her as Eliza Moore, single, living in Radcliffe Lancashire with my great grandmother. It states she is born around 1844 in Stradbally Ireland.

My great grandmothers marriage says her father was John Moore

Marriage: 14 Apr 1894 St Joseph, Bury, Lancashire, England
Thomam Fraine - (Bury)
Joannem Moore -
Groom's Father: Martini Fraine
Bride's Father: Joannis Moore
Witness: Joanne Fraine; Maria Carroll
Married by: Thomas Walsh
Register: Marriages 1863 - 1902, Page 127
Source: Original Register at Lancashire Archives

Any help would be greatly appreciated to point me in the right direction

Thanks Kathy

Kath Fox

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Unfortunately, there are six civil parishes in Ireland named Stradbally (in Irish, An tSraidbhaile, meaning "the street town"), and ten townlands with that name.  However, the townlands are grouped together in most cases, with several being in the same parish in each case, so that actually narrows down the number of places to search.  Here's a link to a list showing them all:  https://www.townlands.ie/search/?q=Stradbally ; At that site, you have links to more info about each of the parishes and townlands.

Since you have an approximate year of birth, you could check the parish registers for each relevant parish in a range of several years around 1844, looking for your Elizabeth Moore.  The year should normally be taken as an estimate, since people were often unsure exactly when they were born, but that was the year before the Great Famine so it's one year that people might actually have remembered well.

I notice that four of the Stradbally townlands (designated North, South, East and West) are all in the civil parish of Stradbally in Galway, and also all in the Catholic parish of Oranmore (the Catholic parishes and the civil parishes do not always have the same names, or exactly the same boundaries), so you might start there.  The parish records for Oranmore are available (free) online at thiis link, and they go back to 1833, so if Elizabeth was born in any of those four townlands, then you should be able to find her:  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0634

If you have no luck in Galway, that site has an interactive map which allows you to move on to other locations.  The two Stradbally townlands in the civil parish of Stradbally in Limerick are both in the Catholic parish of Castleconnell, and the parish records for Castleconnell are available here (going back to 1850):  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0758

The two Stradbally townlands in the civil parish of Stradbally in Waterford are both in the Catholic parish of the same name (Stradbally), and the parish records for that parish are available here (going all the way back to 1805):  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/1093 ; Actually, since in this case the townland and parish have the same name, perhaps this would be the location to start with, but it's up to you.

By the way, all of those townlands are searchable on Google Earth, using just Stradbally and the county name, and that allows you to see what they look like today.

 

 

kevin45sf@yahoo.com

Thanks kevin45sfl, I shall start working my way through and let you know if I find anything

 

Kath Fox

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