Looby, Slattery and Davin connection around Fethard

Hello John,

I’m not related and have not been researching your ancestors, but found there is a relationship connection between two of the families you are interested, as well as a residence connection between the three surnames Looby, Slattery, and Davin. These connections are found in the Civil Parish of Whitechurch, Catholic Parish of your namesake, Ballylooby, South Ridings of County Tipperary, just north of County Waterford. Ballylooby is also associated with the Civil Parishes of Tubbrid and Tullaghorton. See the Whitechurch Parish entry from the 1837 edition of Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of Ireland at: https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/W/Whitechurch-Offa-West-Tipperary…

I found the baptisms for five children of John Looby and Ellen Slattery. The children were baptized in the Ballylooby Catholic Parish from 1829 to 1846.

I also found several baptisms for Davins in the Ballylooby Catholic Parish from 1829 to 1874, and also other baptisms for Slatterys, from 1820 to 1869, in the Ballylooby Parish.

All of these records were found for free.

If you think your ancestors may have been from the Ballylooby area of Tipperary South, I can send you the baptisms of the five children of John Looby and Ellen Slattery, and then point out how you can access the Ballylooby baptisms for the other Saltterys and Davins in the parish, as there are quite a few of them.

With Kind Regards,

Dave Boylan

Hi there Dave,

Thanks for all of that, I do think that the Loobys did come from that area but unfortunatly, I haven't gone back that far, yet.

The letter that I mentioned ties the Davin family and the Looby family and it appears that the connection is around the Fethard area, and perhaps Miltownmore not far away, I know but right now I'm struggling to put the pieces together. We do know that a Catherine Looby married a Thomas Slattery and their daughter married a Thomas Davin that had moved to the USA. While my great grandfather Denis Looby, who went to Australia, knew this Thomas Davin, we don't know how or if they were related.

I am interested in learning more about doing genealogly in Ireland, so what you have provided will be used for learning at the very least. Thanks again

You and your family stay safe and healthy in these troubling times

John J. Looby

You're welcome John, and best of luck with your research.

Dave

I'm still open to learning of these sites that don't charge for access to records, please and thanks

Hello John,

Sorry for the delay in writing back but I just finished a very involved genealogical project that took a week to research.

The site that I use the most is the Find My Past (FMP) website. FMP is normally a subscription and or pay-as-you-go- website, but thankfully does not charge to search Irish Catholic baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials for the 32 counties of Ireland. Most of the records cover the 19th century, but some do go back to the 18th century, depending if the church registers for a particular parish go back that far.

You will have to establish a free account with FMP to search the records.

At FMP you actually get transcriptions of the baptisms, marriages, and burials. But, attached to each transcription is a link that will take to a copy of the original parish register where the baptism, marriage, or death can be found. The copies of the registers come from the National Library of Ireland on Kildare Street in Dublin.

The search engine for FMP baptism transcriptions can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/jnmqmuv

The search engine for Catholic marriages can be accessed at: http://tinyurl.com/jzylkjy

For Catholic Parish burial transcriptions go to the search engine at: http://tinyurl.com/j9qe5p9

Also John I use the free irishgenealogy.ie website a lot. At this site you can search for civil registration records of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as for Catholic and Protestant church records for select counties, or portions of counties, such as County Cork.

For more information about what civil records are available online at irishgenealgy.ie go to: https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/civil-records/help/what-civil-records-…

For information about church records online at irishgenealogy.ie, go to: https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/church-records/about/what-church-recor…

In combination with FMP and irishgenealogy.ie, I also look for records at the FamilySearch website. This site has especially good civil registration birth, marriage, and death records from 1864 to the early 1870s. But FamilySearch is always adding records to their collection. The FamilySearch homepage can be found at:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/

You have to establish a free account at Family Search before looking for records.

So that genealogy is just not a series of names and dates, I really like to access old Ordnance Survey Maps of the places where someone’s ancestors had lived. These maps, in color, are available for free from the GeoHive website link at: http://map.geohive.ie/

The homepage for GeoHive is at: https://geohive.ie/

For example, you believe your ancestors are from the Fethard and Milltownmore areas of County Tipperary.

For a very nice Ordnance Survey Map of Fethard, Tipperary in color from the 1837 to 1842 time period, go to the GeoHive link at: https://bit.ly/2yT8uUR

Once at the map make sure to click on “Close menu” to view the full map.

For another Ordnance Survey Map in color of Milltownmore, just 4½ miles west of Fethard, go to the GeoHive link at: https://bit.ly/2yc4uhF

There is another free site I use all the time. This is the Ask About Ireland website, where you can access indexes and copies of original entries of landholders in Ireland as found in Griffiths Valuation, which was enumerated in the 32 counties of Ireland between 1847 and 1864. For more information about Griffiths Valuation, go to the Ask About Ireland link at: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

In an even earlier land survey of Ireland I also access the Tithe Applotment Books from the National Archives of Ireland. For the Tithe Applotment Books search page, go to: http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/index.jsp

There is no cost to search the Tithe Applotment Books.

For a very good description about what the Tithe Applotment Books entail, go to the following National Archives of Ireland links at:

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp
http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/about.jsp
http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/aboutmore.jsp

I also use the free National Archives of Ireland site a great deal to look for ancestors in the 1901 and 1911 census returns for the 32 counties of Ireland. See: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

To learn what a town, city, or civil parish was like in the 19th, century just a few years before the start of the Great Famine, I like to go to the 1837 edition of Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, which is available at the Library Ireland link at: https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/index.php

For a description of Fethard, Tipperary (there is also a Fethard Wexford) in the Topographical Dictionary, go to: https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/F/Fethard-Middlethird-Tipperary.php

I have been using the Topographical Dictionary long before it became available online. In the past I had to order the dictionary from interlibrary loan at the public library.

I hope this information is useful John.

Best Wishes,

Dave

Hi again Dave,

Thanks so much for ALL that. It's going to take a while for me to get through all of those places, but you have saved me a lot of search time. Please ask if there's anything I can help you with.

Thanks,

John

You're welcome John. Best of luck with your research.

Kind regards,

Dave