KELLY (Thomas) and CURTAIN/CURTIN (Ellen) Family Migrated from County Clare to Australia

  
Hi Daryl 
 
Thank you for your query and sharing your information. Unfortunately the reality of finding documentation pertaining to births/baptisms/marriages/deaths in Ireland prior to 1800 ? particularly in rural areas ? is that they simply may not exist. Some registers for urban areas pre-dating 1800 may exist ? though often these can be fragmented- as there was an increased need in cities or larger towns to document the population. Please also note that the Church of Ireland was the official church of the country and therefore the bulk of information that does survive for earlier periods is often from these registers.  
 
Ireland Reaching Out can assist you with your research by - 
 
-offering support in the form of advice and guidance regarding research i.e. ?Have you tried...Did you check...?? 
 
-directing you to online resources 
 
-providing you with contact information for local Family History centres 
 
-endevouring to connect you with a volunteer or group in the area you are researching 
 
 
 
Ireland Reaching Out cannot - 
 
-provide access to records - there is no central repository in Ireland for records- 
 
-provide a dedicated genealogy research service 
 
The University of Woolongong has produced, on microfiche, a complete index and transcript of all information concerning immigrants of Irish origin recorded on ships' passenger lists between 1848 and 1867 for New South Wales. These are useful for finding out an exact place of origin as well as parents' names. The Public Record Office of Victoria has good online databases of settlers at www.prov.vic.gov.au Otherwise, other records may be found in the Colonial Office Papers of the UK National Archives, class reference CO 201. This class contains a wide variety of records, including petitions for assisted passages, emigrants' lists, records of emigrants on board ship, petitions from settlers for financial assistance and much more. 
 
You can also check the UK archives as many Irish emigrants traveled from British ports: 
 
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/ 
 
The key for researching church records would be to find an exact place of origin in Co. Clare. Do you know what the religious denomination of your family was?  
 
Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of available records per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance. 
 
 Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.  The Anglican Record Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf 
 
Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations: in local custody, in the Public Records of Northern Ireland (PRONI) http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm and at the Presbyterian Historical Society http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com in Belfast. PRONI has microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by the Presbyterian Historical Society. For the rest of Ireland, almost all records are in local custody. It can difficult to locate these as many congregations in the South have moved, amalgamated, or simply disappeared over the last sixty years. 
 
I hope that this information is of help to you Daryl. The information you are seeking is very specific and may warrant the services of a professional genealogy company/service. However please be aware that some companies carry significant fees. 
 
Here are some websites that may be of help to you: 
 
http://www.rootsireland.ie/ 
 
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm 
 
http://www.nli.ie/ 
 
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ 
 
http://www.clareroots.com/ 
 
All the best in your research 
 
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