MAYO-L Archives

Archiver > MAYO > 2001-03 > 0984514603


From: Thomas McGurn <>
Subject: Claremorris Parish Registers - LDS Film #1279207
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:16:43 -0600


Judy Philip: I note you are pursuing BURKE in Claremorris. Have you run
across any reference to Mary BURKE (b: ca 1834, d:24 Aug 1904.) Married
Patrick MCGURRIN (b: ca 1820, d: 8 May 1904) Lived Gortaphuill,
Ballyglass, Claremorris?
They were my gggrandparents and have not been able to find anything on them
beyond the above. The family occupation was tailoring and their home was
called Ballytaylor. We visited last year and found MCGURRIN's in the Mayo
Abbey Cem. as well as lunch with a cousin in Stonepark. Have more info
on the family of Patrick and Mary. Just guessing - they might have been
married about 1850??

Here's some info on the Townland of Gortaphuill, courtesy of the S. Mayo
Family Research Centre: "The townland of Gortaphuill,.......is in the
civil parish of Rosslee and the RC church parish of Mayo Abbey & Rosslee.
Before 1858 it was in the RC parish of Balla, Belcarra, Manulla &
Rosslee....." Tom McGurn

Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:26:02 +0930
From: Judy Philip <>
To:
Message-ID: <>
Subject: Claremorris Parish Registers - LDS Film #1279207
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I currently have, at my local LDS FHC, Film #1279207. Items 15-20 on
this film are Baptisms and Marriages from the Claremorris Parish
Registers - baptisms start from 1835, marriages from 1806; they stop in
the early 1900's. The Film is *very* hard to look through and the
writing difficult too - I've just spent a very depressing few hours.

I didn't see any entries that seemed to relate to me. I did copy down
quite a few of the early BURKE/BOURKE entries ("my" Mayo BURKE's - Mary
Ann, John George, and Thomas whose parents were Henry BURKE and Maria
RAFFERTY - arrived in Australia in about, or before, 1860). The
entries in the register are pretty skeletal though they usually include
a couple of names of people present for marriages, sponsors for
baptisms, and often the fee paid.

There are quite a few annotations against the more recent baptisms
stating where the baptised child eventually married inc some in Dublin
and some in the USA.

I would be prepared to consider doing lookups - BUT only if you have a
*very* good idea of the year and the name you are looking for.

Large sections of the Registers were obviously in very poor condition;
there are broken bindings, missing pages, torn pages, dirty pages,
damaged (water?) pages, smeared ink and, as well, some of the filming
was such that the writing can't be read.

Politics were alive and well - there is a list of the categories of
persons to be represented on the Relief Committees, and the draft of a
letter dated 3 October 1846 - the writer says that in the absence of the
Earl of Lucan, the county Leiutenant, he feels obliged to write and
point out the insulting and offensive decision to exclude certain
members of the clergy from the committees - sad, eh!

I have also ordered in the film of the Crossboyne parish registers - I
believe the marriage of my Henry BURKE and Maria RAFFERTY is in those
registers. I have my fingers crossed that they will have been in better
condition.

Judy Philip
Adelaide, Australia


This thread: