Looking for Guinan ancestors from Roscrea

Dear Deirdre:

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

I will pass your query onto one of our Roscrea volunteers who may be able to assist you.  The Guinan family were located in Roscrea, Silvermines and Killanule areas of Tipperary. 

Please give our volunteers a week or two to reply.

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All the best,

Jane.

Hi Deirdre . . . Greetings from Roscrea, Co.Tipperary, Ireland . . . 

So . . . you pose a serious challange . . to adding substance to your family search . . . 

The first problem . . is the stretch back in dates . . . which are a time  before Irish records . . . 

R.C. Church Parish Records ( Roscrea ) . . earliest entries are 1810 . . . see . . . https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0805

I searched " Ancestry " for the earlier Limerick connections . . Maurice Ginane c.1750 . . also spelling Giunane . . also Guinan

I did find a PATRICK Ginane  being baptised . . . 1772 . . . ( see below ) . . original entry in Limerick Church ?? Father MAURICE . . Mother . .  Margta Crawby

of PATRICK's marriage in Offaly ( a.k.a. Kings County ) . . . I found NO positive trace . . . 

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The Surname - spelling . . Guinan  . . . appears from my search. . . to be more common to . . . the County in Ireland

known as Offaly (nowadays) . . . or (aka) Kings County . . . 

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Roscrea In Co. Tipperary. . .  the Town is geographically situated . . . within a mile of two neighbouring County boundries

. . . namely Kings Co. . . . and Laoise ( aka ) Queens County.

This makes for a great confusion when searching . . especially if the search family were in Farming Lands . . . 

BUT . . there are some clues available . . . 

We still have records from 1823 - 1837 . . known as " Tithes Applotment " . . . wherein is recorded Guinan;s for the Roscrea area . . . ( see Guinan search # 1 . . below )

Also ( see #2 ) . . . the last two Guinan names are within a few miles of Roscrea . . . 

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Then . . . there are records . . . known as  " Griffiths Valuation "  1847 - 1864 . . . ( see #3. )

and - -  in #4. below . . . you will see the name GUINANE . . . all in close proximity to the Town and surroundigs of Roscrea.

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Again . . .I refer you back to the R.C. Church records of Roscrea . . beginning 1810

you will find these at this site online. . . .https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0805

with luck . . and patients. . . you may find your ancestors Baptism record . . in a spread . . say . . 1817 to 1822 . . 

For want of information . . I failed to find any trace of a Catherine Smith  . . . 

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and then the story leads to Canada . . . where . . I presume you already have most of the records . . . 

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I do hope . . some of the above will be of some use to you . . . 

Should you have a specific question . . . I would be glad to assist . . . 

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Cheers . . . Eamonn M. Horan ( I.R.O.)