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My great great grandfather is John Howarth born in New Ross, Wexford abt 1820. He had a brother, Shepherd born abt 1817 and a sister Rhoda born abt 1825 - all three born in New Ross.

John and Shepherd joined the 11th North Devonshire Foot Regiment and travelled to Australia - to Tasmania and New South Wales - abt 1845.

Rhoda followed as an assisted migrant a few years after her brothers and settled in Sydney.

Need documentation of their births.

Also,  information re their parents who I believe are John (or James) Shepherd Howarth and Mary Pascoe (or Parslow).

Rosalie Busch (nee Howarth)

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Thursday 11th Apr 2013, 12:17PM

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    Hello Rosalie,

    A possible source of documentation of their births would be from church records.

    ROMAN CATHOLIC: 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: 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/bunc…

    PRESBYTERIAN: 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.

    Best regards Michael.

    Thursday 18th Apr 2013, 12:41PM

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