My 3 cousins and I are visiting Country Tipperary in September 2020. We are hoping to find the homes of our Ancestors. Our great grandparents emigrated to Australia in the 1800s from Ballyneale, Carrickbeg, Carrick on Suir and Clonmel. The family names we know are Joy, Cleary, Norris, Galvan/Galvin.
Hi Kerrie,
Welcome Kerrie,
We probably need some first names and approximate birth years as there are lots of these surnames on record in the parishes you listed.
www.rootsireland.ie/ (subscription site) has Ballyneale R C baptism records for Cleary, Norris & Galvin (none for Joy) in the 1800's but none has an address - only the parish is given!!
There are lots of baptisms for each name in Carrick-on-Suir both R C (from 1794) & Civil from 1864
If you want to search yourself, the R C records are available free at https://registers.nli.ie/; Ballyneale baptisms start at 1839; Carrickbeg 1842; Carrick-on-suir 1784 & Clonmel 1790
The Tithe Applotments (free at http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/) have records from the early 1820's & have 4 Joys, 309 Clearys, 22 Norrises, 5 Galvins & 1 Galvan; you can search by parish
If they didn't leave till later 1800's Griffiths Valuation (1848 to 64) is also free & can be searched by parish
Disappointingly, the 1851 Irish Census has none of any of the surnames in Tipperary!
Col
Dear Kerry:
Many thanks for your post to the Ireland Reaching Out message board and welcome!
We have several volunteers in the Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel areas who will be able to assist you and I have copied your post to them. You should expect to hear from them in the next few weeks. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on this thread and we will do our best to try to answer them.
Kind regards,
Jane
Hi Col and Jane, thank you for your offer of help to find more of our ancestors. I hope this copy of our family tree will give the information you need for research.
Hi Kerrie:
Thank you for the attachment and I have forwarded it to our volunteers locally. Hopefully someone will be able to assist you.
Please let me know if there is anything further that I can do.
Kind regards,
Jane