I'm planning to visit Ireland in May and hope to trace my relatives. Daniel Rooney and wife Mary Corcoran as well as son Daniel Rooney and wife Catharine Sixsmith daughter of Benjamin Sixsmith. All I can locate is Daniel and Catharines marriage at St Mary's. They all lived in Kilkenny for a period of time. Any help is greatly appreciated
Here is a transcription of the marriage record:
Date of Marriage: 21-May-1846
Parish / District: ROSCREA County: Co. Tipperary
Husband Wife
Name: Daniel Rooney Mary Corcoran
Denomination: Roman Catholic Roman Catholic
Witness 1 Witness 2
Name: Pat Carroll John Dodd
Notes:
Pn [Priest]
1/11/6
E ** Dan
Source: RootsIreland
I found three baptisms for children of the above couple (RootsIreland):
1 Name: Eliza Rooney
Date of Baptism: 05-Mar-1847
Address: Grogan
Parish/District: RATHDOWNEY
Gender: Female
County Co. Laois
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Father: Daniel Rooney
Mother: Mary Corcoran
Sponsor 1 /"n/r"
Sponsor 2 /Judy Connell
2 Roony Bridget 1852 Co. Tipperary [townland recorded as “Bally…”]
3 Rooney Mary 1855 Co. Offaly
Daniel Rooney Jr.'s 1879 marriage record notes that he was 20 years old. If true, he would have been born c1859. I have not found a baptism for him in RootsIreland's databases. There would be no birth record, as civil registration started in 1864.
RootsIreland has birth/baptism records for children of Daniel Jr., as follows. All of these children were born in workhouses. Daniel had various occupations, such as tinker, carpenter, brushmaker. A tinker could be an Irish Traveler with no fixed abode, who moved around the country. Or tinker could mean a tinsmith who traveled around to find work but was not a Traveler.
Source Surname First Name Year County
Church Baptism Rooney Michael 1880 Co. Kilkenny
Civil Birth Rooney Michael 1880 Co. Kilkenny
Civil Birth Rooney Daniel 1890 Co. Roscommon
Civil Birth Rooney Daniel 1896 Co. Limerick
Church Baptism Rooney Bridget 1898 Co. Limerick
Civil Birth Rooney Bridget 1898 Co. Limerick
Here you can see the family living in a house in Ballingarry, Co. Limerick in 1901 census. It says that Daniel, age 40, was born in Kilkenny.
https://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Limerick/Ballingarry/Ballingarry_Village/1487830/
The infant Daniel Rooney was born in the Roscommon workhouse in Feb. 1890 and died three days later. His father, Daniel, was a sawyer. Birth record says of the father, “No fixed residence.”
Birth of infant Daniel Rooney in 1890
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1890/02440/1907997.pdf
Death of infant Daniel Rooney in 1890:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1890/06114/4745467.pdf
A child was born to Daniel and Catherine in Clare in 1905: https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1905/01780/1699644.pdf
Daniel had no fixed address.
There were likely children born between 1880 and 1890, but we have not found records for them. It is possible the family was not in Ireland then.
Child Mary born in Limerick in 1894:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1894/02267/1851971.pdf