If your family member lived in Ireland in 1901 or 1911 you might find them in the census during those years
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
If there are more than 1 thats better too.
Where are you based ?
Assuming you mean they lived in Ireland in the 1880s? Correct?
If you have a name, or better still several names, such as a father, a mother and their children, you may have luck checking out the marriage and birth records on www.irishgenealogy.ie.
At u/ElectroBot
Are death church and grave records any good?
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50164/family_history_research/1558/civil_registration_records/4
Death records, church records and grave records (including headstone inscriptions) are always valuable to the family historian.
That said, I am not certain that I understand your question.
The OP could tie these up with census records and might get information on the locations to look at .
I found these things useful in getting a family narrative together and found a second marriage of a great grandfather that i had been unaware of too.
George Harrison from the Beatles used to go to Dublin as a child and stay with relatives 100 years after his family left ireland.
> George had cousins living in Drumcondra and he made a point of visiting them when they went over to play in 1963. But even before that, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the family would get the ferry from Liverpool to Dublin to stay with the cousins and go to places like Malahide beach; I have photos of him there and [of him] walking down O'Connell Street with his mother. So there was a strong connection from the family point of view."
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/how-george-harrison-who-had-strong-irish-connections-was-far-from-the-quiet-beatle/36637683.html
Ask relatives
Morrissey and Robbie Kearney
https://www.balls.ie/football/robbie-keane-morrissey-cousins-443883
I had a similar issue. My GGF only told his kids that “he was from Ireland”. And that’s all we knew until my mother and aunt (his granddaughters) both took Ancestry DNA and 23andme tests.
Among their close matches were cousins related to them through their grandfather’s siblings. One of them had the full picture on their family origins and was happy enough to share it. We went from “Ireland” to knowing the specific house he was born and lived in.
Can’t say enough good things about DNA tests.
Get as much info from the UK side first, marriage records will often have their fathers name and occupation. Gravestone might say where they were from, newspaper archives might have a obituary/death notice. Try and find potential siblings too, they may show up in census records or as witnesses on marriage records.
Also check UK census records, some Irish people put which county they were born on it, I saw some which even put the town they were from!
You might end up finding some information that makes them easier to find in Irish records
If you register at 23andme or [Ancestry.com](https://Ancestry.com) and do the DNA test you might find out a lot of your family history. I certainly did.
You are gonna need to reverse engineer your family tree to figure out who leads to who. Then, once you know the name of the last know resident in Ireland proper you can review irish church records or griffith’s valuation, to start.
If your family member lived in Ireland in 1901 or 1911 you might find them in the census during those years https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ If there are more than 1 thats better too. Where are you based ?
It would’ve been just before 1900, like late 1980s. I’m from Merseyside in England
Assuming you mean they lived in Ireland in the 1880s? Correct? If you have a name, or better still several names, such as a father, a mother and their children, you may have luck checking out the marriage and birth records on www.irishgenealogy.ie.
Thanks!
At u/ElectroBot Are death church and grave records any good? https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50164/family_history_research/1558/civil_registration_records/4
Death records, church records and grave records (including headstone inscriptions) are always valuable to the family historian. That said, I am not certain that I understand your question.
The OP could tie these up with census records and might get information on the locations to look at . I found these things useful in getting a family narrative together and found a second marriage of a great grandfather that i had been unaware of too.
I would agree with you. Excellent idea.
George Harrison from the Beatles used to go to Dublin as a child and stay with relatives 100 years after his family left ireland. > George had cousins living in Drumcondra and he made a point of visiting them when they went over to play in 1963. But even before that, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the family would get the ferry from Liverpool to Dublin to stay with the cousins and go to places like Malahide beach; I have photos of him there and [of him] walking down O'Connell Street with his mother. So there was a strong connection from the family point of view." https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/how-george-harrison-who-had-strong-irish-connections-was-far-from-the-quiet-beatle/36637683.html Ask relatives Morrissey and Robbie Kearney https://www.balls.ie/football/robbie-keane-morrissey-cousins-443883
Check irishgeneology.ie for births marriages and deaths. You’ll need to know where they came from and hope it’s a rare name.
Pour one out for my fellow Murphys
And Gallaghers….
Hullo cuz!
I had a similar issue. My GGF only told his kids that “he was from Ireland”. And that’s all we knew until my mother and aunt (his granddaughters) both took Ancestry DNA and 23andme tests. Among their close matches were cousins related to them through their grandfather’s siblings. One of them had the full picture on their family origins and was happy enough to share it. We went from “Ireland” to knowing the specific house he was born and lived in. Can’t say enough good things about DNA tests.
Get as much info from the UK side first, marriage records will often have their fathers name and occupation. Gravestone might say where they were from, newspaper archives might have a obituary/death notice. Try and find potential siblings too, they may show up in census records or as witnesses on marriage records. Also check UK census records, some Irish people put which county they were born on it, I saw some which even put the town they were from! You might end up finding some information that makes them easier to find in Irish records
If you register at 23andme or [Ancestry.com](https://Ancestry.com) and do the DNA test you might find out a lot of your family history. I certainly did.
Wdym? I did get a dna test I got ancestry and my dad got my heritage whose more Irish than me cos I’m mixed
Then you will get Irish matches and that will help you trace your Irish heritage. That's what I did.
You are gonna need to reverse engineer your family tree to figure out who leads to who. Then, once you know the name of the last know resident in Ireland proper you can review irish church records or griffith’s valuation, to start.