My Grandfather Kerry (Kieran)Casey and his brother Michael Casey immagrated to NZ . They also had a brother Sean (Jack) whos history is vague but died in ireland. They have a sister Kitty O Sullivan who still lives in the village of Brosna. I dont know much about my great grandparents or other relatives. I have heard my grandfathers 1st cousin Philip Caseylives in America. Any information for the family tree would be great
Dear Kieran
Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out and apologies for the delay in replying to your message.
Do you have any dates around which you could conduct a search?
As you can see from the link below, Brosna is a Civil Parish in Co. Kerry:
Records for the corresponding Roman Catholic Parish of Brosna begin in 1866. There are some places where you can search online, however these websites do not have complete collections and many do not cover the period after 1900:
www.familysearch.org has a huge database of genealogical records including some church records for Ireland
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ have begun a project to upload Irish church records to their site free of charge. However so far only Counties Dublin, Kerry, Carlow and parts of Cork have been covered
Post-1900 parish queries should be addressed to the Parish Priest: http://www.mylocalnews.ie/kerry-15/brosna-414/church-4/roman-catholic-20/st-carthage-church-475/
Have you tried researching the immigration records for NZ for your ancestor?s details?
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Best of luck with your search
Clare Doyle
Genealogy Support