Hello. My great, great grandfather Alexander Todd was born around 1856 to William Todd and Mary Anderson inBanbridge Co Down. Hemigrated to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1878. A number of his siblings also migrated Samuel, Thomas, Margretta & Hugh. He named his houses in Brisbane "Cappagh". Any information about the family in Ireland is appreciated. Thank you
What looks as though it might be the marriage between Wm Todd and Mary Anderson was registered in Banbridge 1847 Vol 2 page 397. (Indexes to Irish civil registration). The marriage cert should also be on-line on the GRONI site in Belfast but I can’t find it. So may just need to order a copy from GRO Roscommon.
You can order a photocopy of the certificate from GRO Roscommon for €4 (euros). http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Apply-for-Certificates.aspx
You have to download and print off the form. Then either post or fax it back to them. You can’t e-mail it to them. However if you want them to e-mail the cert to back to you, they will do that, so tick the relevant box.
Put the reference details on the form (anywhere). Don’t worry about leaving some boxes blank. As long as GRO have the location, name(s), year, quarter (where there is one), volume and page number they should find it.
Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church which should be on the certificate, (unless it was a Registry Office marriage). That church may be the place to look for her baptism and that of any siblings.
Cappagh is a townland of 476 acres in the parish of Annaclone, near Banbridge. There’s a William Todd listed there in Griffiths Valuation of 1863. He was on plot 20 which was a 26 acre farm. That’s on the modern Burnside Rd. The revaluation records show the farm passing from William Todd to Andrew Todd in 1902 though those dates can be out by a year or two. William probably died around 1900 or 1901. (Possible death on GRONI on 14.2.1900 aged 83).
John & Samuel Todd lived nearby and so are probably related.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml
1901 census:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Annaclone/Cappagh/1207340/
1911:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Annaclone/Cappagh/208798/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Annaclone/Cappagh…
Andrew Todd is still shown as the owner of the farm in 1929 when that series of records stops.
You might find further information in PRONI, eg they have this holding: D2426/37
One of two boxes of miscellaneous title deeds, leases, conveyances, sale particulars, etc, including a coloured survey of Cappagh, Co. Down, by Alexander Richmond, 1838, and certified copies of 1851 census particulars of the Gray family of Ballynewport, Co. Down.
Here are the baptisms of William and Mary's 10 children, all in CAPPY, Co. Down:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
Sarah Todd
Date of Birth:
16-Nov-1849
Date of Baptism:
07-Feb-1850
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Female
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
John Todd
Date of Birth:
19-Jul-1851
Date of Baptism:
12-Nov-1851
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Male
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
William Todd
Date of Birth:
19-May-1853
Date of Baptism:
08-Sep-1853
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Male
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
Alexander Todd
Date of Birth:
02-May-1855
Date of Baptism:
06-Jul-1855
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Male
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
Hugh Anderson Todd
Date of Birth:
10-Aug-1857
Date of Baptism:
04-Nov-1857
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Male
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
Thomas Hutchinson Todd
Date of Birth:
02-Jun-1859
Date of Baptism:
17-Oct-1859
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Male
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
Roseanne Todd
Date of Birth:
15-Feb-1861
Date of Baptism:
20-Jun-1861
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Female
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
Samuel Todd
Date of Birth:
06-Nov-1864
Date of Baptism:
30-Aug-1865
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Male
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
Andrew Todd
Date of Birth:
10-May-1867
Date of Baptism:
17-Jan-1868
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Male
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Church Baptism Record
Name:
Margretta Todd
Date of Birth:
16-Nov-1869
Date of Baptism:
03-Jan-1871
Address:
Cappy
Parish/District:
ANNACLONE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN
Gender:
Female
County
Co. Down
Denomination:
Father:
William Todd
Mother:
Mary Anderson
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
Elwyn and dancer1951
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I so very much appreciate all the information you have given me!!!
This is further than I've been able to get using ancestry.com . I'm marrying an Irishman next year so I've been trying to connect more with my Irish ancestry.
Have a lovely day - you have made me smile!!!
Tina
Ah, delighted we were able to help!