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Roger Daly from Ballygawley

TyroneErrigal Keerogue (Tyrone)

My Great Grandfather is said to have been born between 1870-1872 in or around Ballygawley. However, I did search the parish registry at the NLI and did not find him. Curiously, very few Dalys born in a town that the name translates to Daly's Town.

One othe rpossibility is that he was actually born in or around Beragh. However the parish register vailable for that parish is not legible - too faint.

Can anyone suggest another method of finding th Beragh parish register on line?

Roots Ireland produces no record of a Roger Daly in Ulster.

dalydogs@msn.com

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Ideally you need to have Roger’s parents names from say his marriage certificate, death certificate or some other official source. Otherwise you have no certain way of knowing if you have found the right family in Ireland.

Ballygawley is in Clogher civil registration area. I searched those records for Roger's birth 1864 – 1880 on the irishgenealogy site. There were 42 Daly births but none for a Roger. There were only 3 Roger Daly births in that period, anywhere in Ireland, and they were all in Counties Limerick, Cork and Waterford.

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you for the inormation. I found the same when searching on Roots Ireland. Unfortunately, the amount of information on line is not necessarily complete. My sister found that out when she made an impromptu visit to a geneology center in Donegal and asked if there was any record of a Kate McAteer McIntyre (wife of Roger, per birth certificate for my Grandfather, Charles) born near Letterkenny in about 1870. Was told that there were four such records and she would need to provide the DOB. Can't find a "Kate McAteer McIntyre" on line. Lots of Catherine McAteer and  Catherine McIntyre. Fortunately, one does seem to fit the geneologcal puzzle.  So now I have my GreatGrandmother tracked, but not Great Grand father.

BTW, the only death certifcate I have been able to find for him locally, has no information about his parents.

dalydogs@msn.com

Statutory birth and death registration started in Ireland in 1864 and in the early years not every birth or death was registered. And many births were registered with no name which is another snag.  (It’s always worth searching with the forename box blank).

Irish death certificates generally don’t contain parents names, so what you have found is fairly typical. Sometimes you get son of X (usually for a child) or widow of X, for a wife. But the norm is not to name the parents. The information wasn’t seen as essential.

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Since my post about my Great Grandfather, Roger Daly, who I had belived to have been from County Tyrone, I have been matched via DNA to the Dalys and Ryans of Abbeyside, County Waterford. I was "introduced" to Patty Daly Dunn, my third cousin via AncestryDNA. Patty and her family have done  a marvelous job of research and creating a family tree. Patty has established that my Great Grandfather was the son of Patrick Daly and Kate Ryan (I believe I have remembered her correct given name). Patrick was the son of John Daly and Johanna Kiely. Kate Ryan was the daughter of Roger Ryan and Margaret Drohan.

Patty advises that this branch of the Dalys attended St. Laurence Church. 

Anyone out there recognize my family tree as a part of yours?

Chuck Daly

 

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