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From: Geralyn Barry <>
Subject: Re: [COTIPPERARY] Tippperary - Limerick Border
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:05:48 -0800
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One further comment about border areas (where all the families I trace seem to have lived). I have seen the following situation:

1. Bride from parish A marries groom from parish B - in her parish A.
2. Couple lives in his parish B, as shown in valuation revision lists (canceled books) and other records.
3. Births (as shown in civil registration) of the first few children of the couple occur and are registered in *her* old parish A.
4. Baptisms of these children occur either in parish A or B (it varies).
5. Later children are all born, registered and baptized in the parish where the family lives (parish A, the father's parish).

When this happens in a border area, there is not just a different parish and registrar's district, but sometimes a different county and diocese also.

So, was son George perhaps actually born across the border in County Tipperary because his mother went back to her own family to give birth?

Geralyn Wood Barry in Oregon


On 1/4/2011 9:04 AM, wrote:
> Tippperary - Limerick Border
>
> My 3greatgrandfather George ROWLES was in the GV for Cloonteen, parish of
> Doon, Co. Limerick (which is now in Cappamore parish) and he was also
> listed there in the TA of 1828, and I have never seen a trace of him or others
> of the name anywhere in the area. BUT, his son, also named George, who
> emigrated to the US in 1850, was referred to in his obituary thusly, "the
> deceased was born in Co. Tipperary, Ireland in 1823."
>

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