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Hugh Heinrick schoolmaster

Wexford

We are Birmingham Catholics researching the Heinrick family.  We know that Hugh Heinrick was born in Wexford in +/- 1833.  He married Catharine Malone.  His first child, also Hugh Heinrick, was born in Wexford also.  In the 1861 UK Census the son is listed as being 9 years old.  We know quite a lot about Hugh Senior - he gave up schoolteaching and went as a journalist researching the picture of the Irish Community in England; published in 'The Nation' articles about it; was one of the founders in Birmingham UK of the Irish Home Rule Association.  But we do not know anything about the Wexford part of his life. 

Was he Catholic by birth?  Or German Jewish? There are apocryphal tales that his son, a silversmith in Birmingham, was seen working on silver wearing the Jewish skullcap in the 1920s...Was Hugh Snr a Jew who married out and made the promise to bring up the children and become a catholic because he loved the girl?  Or was he already in the RC fold?

 

But WHY from Germany to Wexford?

 

We should like to know where in Wexford they were; a birth date for Hugh Junior; the place where Hugh Senior was born, and the name and location of the burial of Hugh Senior's father - and how it was that Germans - they spoke fluent German at home through two generations and it saved one of them on the Somme because he was wounded and the Germans thought he was one of theirs and took him to hospital! - and whether in fact the family were in Wexford from Germany for a refugee reason or whether they were working there....anything about the pre-Famine roots would be immensely welcome. 

 

And have we still Heinricks in Wexford?  If so I give you permission to release my email address.

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First of all have a look at these church records.

 

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 you mite also want to try seaching on these links good luck sir. The National Archives of Irelandhttp://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/ The National Library of Irelandhttp://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx The National Archives UK ? genealogy search:http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/ The US National Archives:http://www.archives.gov/ Irish Newspaper Archives:http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/

 

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