RODDY

[Peg Sullivan]

MY Great grandfather, Dominick Roddy from Castlemore, had<br>daughter, Ellenor, born l849, married Dominick Hopkins in<br>R.C.Church in Ballaghaderreen February l8, l867. They had<br>l3 children. My mother was Mary. Did any of the above<br>have any brothers or sisters? Dominick Roddy's wife?<br>The lived in Kilmovee. Any information at all will be<br>very much appreciated. Please e-mail and I will definitely<br>reply. Thanks one and all. Peg Sullivan
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[Richard E. Towey]

<br>Peg: I suggest that you go to a nearby Family History Center <br>of the LDS Church and ask them to borrow microfilm # 1279232<br>for you. This includes baptisms and marriages at St. Nathy's<br>Cathedral in Ballaghaderreen. Baptisms begin in 1851. There<br>is another microfilm for Kilmovee records - might be 1279230.<br>Non-Mormons are welcome at their FHCs & they won't try to<br>convert you. Civil records of births, marriages, & deaths<br>begin in 1864, and the Mormons have all that have been <br>released by the Irish General Registry Office. For marriages<br>this is only a quarterly index; you have to write to them in <br>Dublin to get a copy of the record. The birth & death indexes are<br>quarterly, so very time consuming to use, & microfilms of death<br>records available cover only 1864-1870; births 1864 - 1881, then<br>1900-1913. Don't blame the Irish entirely; they copied this<br>system from the English. Castlemore is both a parish (it &<br>Kilcolman parish form the territory served by St. Nathy's) and<br>a townland. Roddys are scattered all around the area, including<br>some in Drumnalassen townland where I have some distant cousins.<br>Best of luck. Dick
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