I am looking for Rose Anna and her family who I think are from Athlone or Armagh if possible. I have no birth cert or marriage cert for her.
Rose Ann married a soldier Edward Stiff / Steff depending upon the record. Edward was with the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot UK. The men of 1st Battalion 34th Cumberland Foot Regiment returned from India in 1823 and were stationed in Britain and Ireland for the next seven years. The regiment then returned to Canada in 1830, facing the Upper Canada Rebellion during a 13-year posting. Rose Ann went with him after having a child born in Ireland (Mary Ann also without a birth cert). Mary Ann later marries a James Neily in 1845 Kilkeevan, Roscommon,Ireland (marriage cert) then travels to Australia in 1867 with family.
My relative is Rose Ann and Edward's son Edward jnr who was born later in Halifax Canada 1837, no birth cert (from immigration records), and who also ended up in Australia in 1857.
Ferretqueen
Thursday 22nd Dec 2022, 04:54AMMessage Board Replies
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Birth certificates were only introduced in Ireland in 1864 so you won’t get birth certificates for Mary Ann, Edward or Rose Anna. You might find their baptisms if the records still exist.
However I have found a marriage cert for Mary Ann Steff in 1845 here in Co. Roscommon:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…
Marriage was Church of Ireland (ie Anglican) so that suggests the Steff family were that denomination. The marriage was in the parish of Kilkeevan. That parish has baptism records from 1748, marriages from 1784 and burials from 1780. According to my guide to Church of Ireland records, rootsireland (subscription) has those records for “some years.” It does not say which years. The original parish records are now held in the RCB library in Dublin. A personal visit is required to view them there. Mary Ann was 17 when she married so born about 1828. If you think the family were in Roscommon then it might be worth checking that parish's records.
Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Thursday 22nd Dec 2022, 05:41AM -
Ferretqueen/Elwyn: I checked Roots Ireland and there were no Steff/Stief baptismal records anywhere in Ireland on their data base which includes Kilkeevan C of I Parish. It is possible that Mary Ann was baptized in another C of I parish and the records are either held locally or in the RCB library that Elwyn mentions. The records in the RCB library are not yet digitized into a central data base but work has started. Also, as Elwyn knows, 19th century records for many C of I parishes were lost in the 1922 Public Records Office fire in Dublin. Roger McDonnell
Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Thursday 22nd Dec 2022, 05:04PM