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From: Claire Keenan Agthe <>
Subject: Re: [APG] help deciphering (Irish) mother's name in 1889 Birth Reg
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:13:38 -0400
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Cynthia, The surname is unquestionably Mulvihill (a fairly common
Irish name, so I don't know why you'd have limited luck with online
searching). In Irish, it would be O Maoilmhichil (with an accent on
the "O"), meaning a devotee of St. Michael. FYI, it looks like the
townland is Aughrim in Co. Kerry. FYI2, I would take the date of
birth with a grain of salt, as it was reported nearly 40 days later
-- in Ireland at the time, the birth had to be registered within 45
days or the parents would be fined, so parents who were late
registering routinely altered the date of birth they reported so that
it fell within the 45 days. You may very well find a church record
that baby Thomas was baptized some time prior to his reported date of
birth.

Bob, Irish birth records exist in Ireland from 1864 to present, the
LDS just was not allowed to film them all. And what the LDS have
filmed are transcriptions themselves -- they are duplicates sent at
the end of each reporting period to the central government. The
originals are still in the hands of the local registrars, while the
duplicate registrars were those sent to Dublin, combined into volumes
that were later indexed by the GRO and later still filmed by the
LDS. The indexes refer to volume and page numbers that apply only to
the duplicate registers in GRO custody, not to the original registers
in local custody.

Hope that helps.

Claire Keenan Agthe
Bloodlines Genealogical Research Service
7231 Town Court South
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-4729

http://www.bloodlines.biz





On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:15 PM, bob gillis wrote:

> CL Swope (alfonsa) wrote:
>> I've deciphered best I can the "former" portion of the name of the
>> mother in a birth registration. I've done a surname search without
>> too terribly much (but a little) luck . ...
>> <http://www.cynthiaswope.com/DavidRiordan1889.jpg>;.
>
> ...Apparently this document is a transcription made in 1916 of the
> Birth
> Registration entry . You can get the birth Registration films from
> the FHL. ...
>
> However "Births for 4th quarter of 1881 through 1900 1st quarter
> were not
> available for filming" as of 1961. However your transcript indicates
> that they do exist.
>
> bob gillis
>
>
>>
>> Any insight or help appreciated, Cynthia
>>
>>



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