PLEASE USE THESE RECORDS WITH CAUTION. I've reluctantly placed them here but they are the best that could be done given the state of the records. After some thought, I decided that they were better then nothing, and could be used to assist people who wanted to submit a specific request to the parish for the original records.

There are several things to note:

• The early instances contain a birth location in Ireland which should help those ready to continue their search across the ocean.
• The spelling of names sometimes vary from what you might expect or know. For the principal name that I sought, the name appears as Keough, Kehoe, Kough. Another name I was looking at appears as Heaney & Heney in the records. Another is Aylward which appears as Alward, Alwart.
• The writing in these records was very difficult (sometimes impossible to read). I've noted those instances where I was uncertain with a ?
• Please use this as a means to locate your relatives but not as a primary source. Use this info to check further with PANL. I had 2 1/3 days to get as much info as I could from these records and I didn't go back to proof read as carefully as I would have liked to do. Also, Keep in mind the writing can be often mis-read. In my own instance, (where I already knew the name of a spouse) I read the letters differently from the person I asked to do a previous search. My interpretation of the writing was confirmed when I performed baptismal searches, but I could see where a person could read the writing as they did. A strange example of this occurred when someone not familiar with the family being researched read a name as Walken, when it was in fact Holohan. When I saw the writing myself, I saw how the letters could seem to be Walken. (Then, throughout the records, [baptism and marriage] this person's name appeared as Holohan, Hollihan).
• The dates were very difficult to discern. The individual records did not contain a date. Instead the year would be written at the beginning of a year, the same with the month. Then, only numbers were written in the first column. One had to continually go back and determine what the month, year and date were, after a record was found. These records were examined and copied in chronological order.

............... These records were in a desperate state. Much of the handwriting was almost illegible and parts of it had to be read with the help of a magnifying glass. I copied the spelling as it appeared in the records. Any names I couldn't read I marked with a blank. Ironically, after struggling through these records for four straight days, the archivist informed me on my last day that they had just received permission from the parish priest at King's Cove to re-copy the orginial records. So, hopefully this summer, the rsearch will be easier on the eyes. ........

........As you know the priest didn't put the date at the top of each page and you had to keep turning back to see what year you were in....

Please contact Jeri Keough if you have further information about this file.

Submitted by Jeri Keough (February 12, 2000)