Looking for McConnan.

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Births/Baptisms/Marriages/Deaths ? pre1790-1800 ? The reality of finding documentationpertaining to births/baptisms/marriages/deaths in Ireland prior to 1800 ? particularly in rural areas? is that they simply may not exist. Some registers for urban areas pre-dating 1800 may exist ?though often these can be fragmented- as there was an increased need in cities or larger towns todocument the population. Please also note that the Church of Ireland was the official church of thecountry and therefore the bulk of information that does survive for earlier periods is often fromthese registers. ROMAN CATHOLIC: Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is -http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of availablerecords per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possibleassistance. The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

Hi there, I don't know if there is any association, but a Mary McConnon aged 39 at the time of the 1901 Census, born in County Monaghan was Servant/house keeper for a Thomas Cosgrove aged 78 year.  Thomas, retired R.I.C Sergant born in County Fermanagh and is likely to be my Great Great Grandmother's (Mary [nee Cosgrove] Fitzpatrick) brother.  Thomas left the bulk of his estate to Mary McConnon who donnated two stained glass windows to Carrickmacross Church, one to Thomas and the other to Thomas' wife, Bridgid Johnston who was from Raferagh near Carrickamcross.  Cheers, Bernard