Parish of Kilworth. John O'Brien and Mary Gould/Goolde

Hi Mark,

Thank you very much for your message. I hope that someone is able to assist you with this.

In the meantime have you tried looking in the land records pertaining to Ireland in the 19th century to see if you can tie the family down to a specific place?There are two:

The Tithe Applotment Books (1823-1838) found at http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp

and Griffith?s Valuation (1848-1864) found at http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

 

Have you tried looking into the family?s emigration? Sometimes more infomation can be found at the port of arrival rather than that of departure. For information on US immigration records check http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/

 

Some other websites that you may find useful 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

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

Failte Romhat: www.failteromhat.com

Cork Past and Present: www.corkpastandpresent.ie

Irish Genealogy Tool-kit: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/index.html

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

 

Thank-you Emma, I have/we have exahusted the options you recommend and it seems that the only thing left is to look at the actual Perish records in Dublin.

Nothing is definative and Mallow is very expensive to guess at in a roulette wheel like fashon. 

As you say, I hope someone can help us out baring a trip to Dublin before going to Cork first.

Thanks again!

Mark~