Ireland look ups

[Chasing Caseys]

I am trying to find the marriage of my gt gt grandparents John Casey and Ann Phillips. I have no idea when or where or if at all in Ireland. The closest i have got to these two is an English 1871 census and possibly a 1881 census which says birth place Ireland for both of them.There is also one son on one of these that was born in Ireland.
1871 puts his birth year at 1835 and hers as 1823
1881 puts his birth year at 1838 and hers as 1843 ! (although not unusaul !) that is if they are one and the same couple. Both these census has a child born in one says Scotland the other says Glasgow and that is what made me look at these census.
My great grandfather Francis Casey as far as i know was bought up in Glasgow. He married my great grandmother Helen Fox there in 1897 aged 30 which puts birth year at 1867 he died in 1906 aged 35 which puts his birth year at 1871.
I cannot find his birth either and i have looked on the Scottish sites for all of them. The closest i have got to Francis and Helen is a 1901 census where she is at home with daughter and there is a Francis Casey in prison but it says he is single.
Not having as much access to Irish sites as i do Scottish and English im finding this really frustrating !

Any advice would be welcome

Thank you

Tracey

[cazz]

all i know is that a lot of irish records were lost in 1922 (due to a fire, i think!) which is why it's more difficult...good luck, i really hope you find out more in due course...xxx
sorry i wasn't more helpful, but i do sympathise!

[Chasing Caseys]

No, they weren't. The Public Record Office in Dublin was indeed destroyed during the Irish Civil War in 1922, along with virtually all its holdings. From the point of view of genealogy, the most significant losses were the 19th-century census returns, the Church of Ireland parish registers and the testamentary collections. Anything not in the PRO has survived, including non-Church of Ireland parish records, civil records of births, marriages and deaths, property records and later censuses. For much of the material that was lost, there are abstracts, transcripts and fragments of the originals

That was courtesy of genes reunited !!

The problem i have is that on all the Irish sites i have found so far you need to know where they came from before you start our search and i havent a clue where they came from. IF the English census i have IS them then it just says Ireland as birth place.

It really is a shame there isnt an English or Irish site like scotlandspeople where you can waste a lot of money looking at the wrong certificates but being very pleased with yourself when you do find the right one

[cazz]

hello again.....well you obviously know far more about it than me....and i'm supposing you've used the sites that i trawl.....ancestry/1833 online//curious fox etc, so basically i'm no help at all.........and i know what you mean re. paying for records, but it feels like you won the lottery when you find something pertinent........