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Brien/Moloney Co. Cork

CorkKilfaughnabeg (Cork)

Looking for Grandmother's family history. Currently know the following: family comes from Glandore, Co. Cork. Gurtyowen house 2. Parish is Kilfaughnabeg. The 1901 Irish Census shows the head of house to be John Brien, age 70 wife is Margaret gives last name as Brien and age as 70, daughter is Bridget Mollowney age 36, son in-law is Patrick Mollowney age 36, granddaughter Margaret Mollownet age 1 and granddaughter Mary infant. Then the 1911 Irish census Shows the head of house to be Patrick Peter Moloney age 50 wife is Bridget Moloney, children as follows Margaret, Mary, John, Jeremiah, Kate, and Bridget.

Bridget is my Grandmother, although she had to change her name when she moved to the States as her Aunt (sponsor) felt Bridget sounded too Irish so she used her middle name which was Delia. Kate alos came to the States and went by the nickname of Kitty and married John O'Dowd.

I am interested in finding out more on Patrick Peter Moloney. Thank you for any help in my search!!   

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Hi,

Thank you very much for your message.

Have you tried looking in church records for more information on the families? A useful website when it comes to Catholic church records is the Irish Times where they give an overview of what records are available for specific parishes. For Kilfaughnabeg/Kilmacabea parish follow this link:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Cork%20South-West&parish=Kilmacabea&churchid=67

Another even more useful websites is http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ where you can search the church records from the parish online and free of charge!

Civil registration began in Ireland in 1864 so any births, deaths or marriages in the family after this date would be recorded in these records. Civil records are available from the General Register?s Office in Dublin. Here is their website:

http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

You can search the indexes to these records up to 1958 online at:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

 

Some other websites that you may find helpful are:

 

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

Irish Genealogy Links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/cork/index.html

Family Search: www.familysearch.org

 

I hope some of this is helpful. Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.

 

Kind regards,    

Genealogy Support

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Hello, I live in Gortyowen, and my neighbour is Timmy O'Sullivan who'd be a nephew of John "Johnny" Moloney. Would you know Timmy?

 

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