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Ancestors of George Joseph Plunkett

WicklowBallinacor (Wicklow)

My great grandfather, George Joseph Plunkett came to Australia in the 1860's. There are several George Plunketts who arrived in Australia in the 1860/1870's, I believe he arrived in Melbourne unassisted on the MERRIE MONARCH oct 1861. According to his marriage and childrens' birth certificates, I believe he was born around 1839-1842 in Ballinacor, Co Wicklow to James Plunkett and Anne Quinn, although based on Irish naming conventions which my great grandparents followed for their children, Anne may have been Mary Ann. I have found an Ann Quinn born to Denis and Margaret in 1815 and baptised on 31 Jul 1815 at Valleymount, Co Wicklow, Ireland. Not sure if this is my ancestor.

I have been unable to find any his birth or baptismal records and nothing on his parents, other than the guess about Ann Quinn above. Using naming conventions, he may have had an older brother named John.

Any information on this family would be wonderful.

thanks Jo

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Jo:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

I did a 10 year search on Roots Ireland for the baptismal record for George but did not find a record. What was their religious denomination? The RC church is Rathdrum which is on Roots. Rathdrum C of I records are also on Roots. I checked the 1854 Griffiths Valuation for Ballinacor parish and no Plunketts were listed.

Roger McDonnell

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

 

Hi Roger,

Thank you for replying. 

As far as I'm aware, this part of my family were Catholic as that was what the family were brought up as and my great grandparents were married 'using the rites of the church of Rome'. When my great grandfather remarried 10 years later, this was also in a Catholic Church. I did find a James Plunkett in griffiths for the parish of rathnew, but no idea if this James is my ancestor.

I have searched through the birth and marriage records since they were made available in the middle of the year but not knowing where to look, parish etc has made this harder.

A large part of my ancestry is Irish, from various parts of Ireland, limerick, Clare, Derry, Wicklow, unknown (possibly Tipperary) and they all remain quite elusive :) 

Thanks for looking and hopefully something will turn up.

Cheers jo 

 

 

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Jo:

I saw the Rathnew Griffiths record. Rathnew parish is four parishes to the northeast of Ballinacor so I was hesitant to believe it was the same James. Here is the link to the Rathdrum register which is the RC parish for Ballinacor civil parish.

http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0488

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Thanks Roger for your further comments and direction. I'll look through the registers.

As I said, all my Irish ancestors have proved elusive and even my great grandmother Honora Clancy (George's first wife) has proved difficult. A distant relative holds the Clancy family bible which has more information, but I have never been able to find her, her siblings or their parents in the parish registers despite having supposedly more accurate information.

I have started using DNA research to hopefully find more information back in Ireland. I hope to get my uncle to test and he will give me the direct male line back through the Plunketts. So that may be more enlightening :)

cheers Jo

 

 

 

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Jo:

Go to www.gedmatch.com. Gedmatch is a volunteer run site where you can upload your raw DNA data and see if you match with people who tested with another DNA testing company and also loaded their data to Gedmatch.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

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