Happy Mother's Day Bridget

Pat:

I searched the free site www.irishgenealogy.ie which is our main source for Co. Kerry RC church records and I'm finding very few Reddin records before 1850. I did not see a baptismal record for Bridget or Mary. Possibly the parish where they were baptized no longer has records back to the early 1830s which is when I assume they were born.

The surname Reddin and variants was not shown in the 1852 Griffiths Valuation head of household listing. for Co. Kerry.

The surname Reddin was found mostly in Tipperary and Clare.

Have you considered a DNA test?

Can I also suggest that you add Bridget and her emigration story to our XO Chronicles site  https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy

Let me know if you have questions.

Roger McDonnell

You may already be aware of them, but there are records for what may be your family in the Family Search database [https://www.familysearch.org].  If you create a (free) account there, you can find Bridget Reddin under ID number KNR4-XiH, and can access the records for the others easily through that record, as you will see.

The records show Bridget's marriage to Edmund Cahill in WA, but there is one discrepancy.  While Bridget's father is shown as John Reddin, her mother is shown as Mary Cochrane.  In each record, at the right hand side of the record you can see the screen names of those who have created or modified the record, and can send them private messages, so you might be able to get more info by contacting them and comparing notes (and perhaps also locate some relatives that way).

FamilySearch is operated by the LDS church, and is free to use.  You have to create an account to use it, but they don’t ask for much personal info, and no missionaries will contact you or anything like that.  The database does not have separate family trees, and is essentially one huge tree of linked records, in which there is a single record for each person, with a unique identification number (although sometimes people unknowingly create duplicate records for the same person, which you can merge when you spot them).

Hey Kevin,

I'd you know any Murphys with long history in Roscommon or in general we don't really have any in the Murphy DNA project at familytreedna. We could use as many Y testers as possible honestly. There is a modal family that accounts for the overwhelming majority of Munster, but I suspect this ancestor has posterity in other countys. It appears likely that there is some truth behind the two separate Murphy families descended from a common male ancestor in the 3rd or 4th century. The modal Cavanagh family in that project clusters closely with the Wexford Murphys which share R-L159.1 in common with the Munster Murphys.

Thanks Roger and Kevin for your information and suggestions re my Reddin of Kerry query.  While I was disappointed to learn that the name Reddin and variants does not readily show up in early Kerry records, even a negative result is something to keep in mind.  The knowledge that Reddin is found mostly in Tipperary and Clare is also an indication of direction for further research. Thanks for the suggestion and the link to add Bridget to the XO Chronicles  … I will certainly do this.

I am familiar with the familysearch site, but had not looked for Bridget there!  Also I was not aware of the different formats for finding family information and found Kevin's explanation very useful. Certainly this is a lot of interesting information there which I intend to follow up.  While I am fairly comfortable in the knowledge that Bridget's mum was indeed, Bridget Anguil/Andawell of Kerry,  I am now going away to delve into my records of the baptisms [in WA] recorded in Latin from the York Catholic church as I am almost certain that is where I extracted that information.

Again, many thanks to you both.  I certainly appreciate your time and your expertise.

Kind regards

Pat