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O'Briens In Cork

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Hello Everyone!
I've recently re-started my family search through Ancestry.Com and I have a strong lead taking me to Cork. I'm trying to find any information on a Daniel O'Brien born in 1752 and died 1835 in Vermont, USA. This ancestor may have participated in our Revolutionary War. Given his enlistment from 1776-1778, he obviously made the Atlantic crossing prior to 1776. His father's name is David O'Brien born in Cork as well. I do not have dates of his birth and death but I do not believe he made the crossing and stayed in Ireland.

Thank you in advance for any and all help!
Michael O'Brian

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Hello Michael,

As you probably know records in Ireland don't go back as far as records in many other countries.  For various reasons many records were destroyed.

Civil registration began in Ireland in 1864.  Up until then the churches kept records of baptisms and marriages.  ~roman catholic records began in most rural parishs around 1830 or so (some a bit earlier, some a bit later).  Some of the old cities have records going back to around 1790, but very few have records for any earlier

I have looked at www.rootsireland.ie but found nothing.  Have a look at www.irishgenealogy.ie  (free site)and see if you can find them.

So many people (including myself) can only trace back as far as 1830's so you are very lucky to be able to trace as far back as you already have.

Kind regards,

Anne

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