Athleague & Fuerty Roman Catholic Parish Baptismal Index.

Partial 1838 & 1839.  1840 Complete

I wanted to look at the 1840 records but, knowing family history or genealogy records the way I do I figured begin with the 1839 records.  So, I did.  Unfortunately parish records can be confusing when you see them on a microfilm and lots of times, regardless of your experience when you are presented with a record which has two pages beside one another instead of remembering that the page on the left is an earlier year or time of the year, you can work automatically and just go from one page to the next.

I did that with these records and was halfway down the second page when I realised I was in the wrong year!

My notes tell me “1839 was really difficult to read” – this was a combination of faded and not great script.  My notes also tell me “1838, accidently began this page, got to half way down.”  I didn’t make any notes about the condition of the script in 1838 though.

Question marks indicate letters or words that I had a problem with.  Where I have ‘two’ surnames listed, that means that I had a lot of difficulty with the surname and it might have been either or for the two surnames I give.  I am not familiar with the surnames in Roscommon so if any of you see that I have made a mistale, I would really  appreciate it if you would let me know.  Thank you.

This part of the register had Christian names in English as opposed to the Latin of the 1808 section.  Place names are not given here.  Names are abbreviated.  I am not going to script the real spellings for all I give here, please look to other parish record pages that I list these on.  I will just have to make up one page of abbreviations and link that in to all my sets of parish records.