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FOUND AT LAST!
Years of searching the Civil Registration Index for the birth of ANN BARNFATHER, who was my great-grandmother,
never turned up the event. I'm told that it often happened, especially in the early days of Civil Registration, that
births went unregistered.
As the family was Catholic (well, at least Ann's mother was Catholic - she was Mary Ann Kennedy, born in
Galway), a search was made of parishes near where the family lived during the time in question and there she was in the records
of St. Ann's, Mulberry Street. Fortunately, the church listed birth dates as well as baptisms, so we now know that
Ann was born on March 21st, 1846. The name appears to have been misentered as BANfather (a common error).
As you will see in the image below, the entry is very hard to read.
More to come!
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