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Power and Powers in Co. Waterford

WaterfordBallylaneen (Waterford)

I am looking for information on my 3rd great grandparents. They would be the parent of Morris Power who married Anastasia Powers. Morris was born 15 Oct 1829 in Kilbrack. His baptismal record has John Power and Ellen Flynn as parents. His siblings are Michael J., born in 1820, James, born in 1824 and Bridget born on 24 Jan 1830. Anastasia was born on 31 Jan 1833 somewhere in Co. Waterford (possibly Kill). Her parents are Patrick Powers and Margaret Lynch. Margaret was born in 1803 in Bally O'Carty, Ballylaneen, Waterford, Ireland and buried 1857 in Sutton, Massachusetts, USA (according to her grave stone). Anastasia's siblings are Thomas born 1834, Mary born 1836, John born 1838, Patrick born 1841, Michael born 1839 and Ellen born 1844. Some of this information is from the family Bible, some from shared info on Ancestry.com and some from Irishroots.com. Of my 32 3rd great grandparents 27 go back to Ireland. Getting any information before 1800 has been very difficult and I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you.

pwrpla@gmail.com

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Bally O'Carty more than likely refers to the townland of Ballyogarty, 2 km north of Ballylaneen

Aidan Coffey

That would make more sense. Thank you

pwrpla@gmail.com

It would be interesting for you to go through the church registers (baptisms and weddings) for Kill church. A few years ago, the registers for Ballylaneen were all taken away for digitisation. I don't know what authority was involved, but it was a great initiative, and I assume that the same might have happened in Kill. I never found how to access them, though. In Catholic churches in general, these registers only began properly in the 1790s when the Roman Catholic church had become well organised than previously. So it's difficult to get much information from before then. Also, a lot of our local history, including pre-1901 census records, was unfortunately destroyed when the FourCourts (national archive at the time) was burned in our civil war. That's what you're up against when tracing family history.

Aidan Coffey

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