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Looking for Peppers in Co. Wexford or Kildare

Wexford

Hi, I am Ernest Pepper.  My Gt. Grandfather was William Willoughby Pepper who was born around 1835 somwhere in Co. Wexford.  His Father's name was Thomas Pepper who was described as a "House Steward" on Wm's marriage certificate.

William (a "Schoolmaster") was married in Rathangan (Co. Kildare) on 1 January 1862 to Margaret Hawkins and they went on to have 11 children.  My tree is on Ancestry.

I would dearly love to find William's parents but have only had partial success with Ancestry, Find My Past and IFHF in that I have found a few Peppers but I cannot tye any of them to my granddad.  Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated.

Ernie

valern@sky.com

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Ernie:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

I'm assuming your family was RC since the marriage was in the Rathangan church? Have your tried the RC parish registers at registers.nli.ie  ?  Here is the link to Rathangan  http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0592 ;

Roger McDonnell

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you for your comments Roger.  Sadly (from a FH point of view) he was not RC but C of I, as the RC church seems to have much better records.

I don't know what a "House Steward" was but neither he (Thomas Pepper) or his son (William Willoughby Pepper) ever seem to have been a house owner or a tennant so don't appear in Griffiths - very strange.  I wondered whether William always lived in a "School House"?

Thanks again, Ernie

valern@sky.com

Ernie

the Church of Ireland are slowly putting their records online, the attached link gives the online ones for Wexford but the 3rd link goes back to the homepage and the last link starts way too late, however there is a Mary Pepper born 7th February 1831 to a Thomas and Mary Pepper but no other Peppers. If the ancestor worked on a major estate the estate papers may still be around in the National Archive but we would need the estate owner but it should be possible to find them as they would ahve owned huge amounts of land, there is website Landed Estates. See baptism here http://ireland.anglican.org/about/160 ;

It says Connaught and Munster but some in Leinster also given. http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/index.jsp

Pat

St Peters LouthIrelandXO Volunteer

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