Questions related to Bridget Hogan and Thomas Egan (married Feb. 1856)

Dear Janeteo:

Thank you for your post to the Ireland Reaching Out message board and welcome to the site.

I am the Volunteer Coordinator for the programme and I am also the Parish Liaison for Tulla County Clare which is a neighbouring parish to Kilkishen/O'Callaghan's Mills, Quin and nearby to Broadford.

I agree with your questions as to the children all being born in different parishes.  They may/may not be from the same family.  However, all the parishes that you mention all border one another.  IN addition, the church of Kilkishen and O'Callaghan's Mills are the one parish (civil parish is known as Clonlea) and there is only one register which is online.  As you noted that a marriage record exists and listed them as marrying in O'CAllaghan's Mills, it would appear that that was Bridget Hogan's home parish and the most likely place where she was born.  Unfortunately, many of the parish registers have gaps, and often the priest forgot to write down the baptisms or in some cases, wrote incorrect information (child name as Bridget instead of Mary, for example). 

I do know that the Broadford registers were in a very poor state, and were water damaged and have been transcribed since.  However, there may have been some pages missing or illegible due to that damage.

The years of 1860-1864 which just precede Civil Registration are sometimes the most difficult area to research as often, registers weren't kept.  It may be that there are other children, but they weren't recorded (but baptised), so other documents need to be researched.  If you believe that some of the family remained in Ireland, you can search the Census records for 1901 and 1911 for this family.  The link is below:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

In addition, you should also check the Civil Registration records which are available for free on:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp

The birth records are available from 1864-1917, marriages from 1864-1940, and deaths from 1864-1966.  The Registration District is Tulla, Ennis and Scariff. 

There are graveyard inscriptions online for Killuran graveyard (located in O'CAllaghan's Mills).  They are on the Clare Library website:

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/killuran_graveyard.htm

The Kilkishen/O'CAllaghan's Mills registers are all avaialble (as transcriptions) on the Clare Library site at this link:

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/bmd/baptism_records_ocallaghans_mills_parish_scarberry.htm

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/bmd/marriage_records_ocallaghans_mills_parish_scarberry.htm

The Quin records have been transcribed and will hopefully be online in the next number of months.  They are online through the Clare Past Forum which you might be interested in joining.

http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=1

Hopefully I have not confused you with all of the above links!  If you have any further questions, please contact me directly at:  tulla@irelandxo.com or jhalloranryan@irelandxo.com.

The very best of luck!

Kind regards,

Jane.