Family and Forebears

I'm back at the Irish research and I'm looking for more information on the Reardon / Riordan / O'Riordan family from Macroom, Co. Cork in Ireland.

My 4th Great Grandparents were John Reardon and Mary Shea.  They were married on March 3, 1835, in Macroom, Co.Cork, Ireland.  Witnesses to their marriage were Denis Denahy and John Downy (spelling may be off on these).  Together they had 6 children that I have found.

Daniel Reardon - b. May 21, 1836, in Clondrohid, Co. Cork, Ireland
Denis Reardon - b. April 1838 in Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland
Margaret Reardon - b. April 25, 1840, in Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland
Mary Reardon - b. March 29, 1842, in Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland
Catherine Reardon - b. December 8, 1843, in Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland
John Reardon - b. October 17, 1849, in Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland

Denis Reardon, their son, is my 3rd Great Grandfather. His residence at the time of Baptism is

Original post 2/2/2014 ( Lisa's Family Pages)

I have updated the Davidson/Liscombe family tree and I have added an image to the Historical Documents page.

Denis Reardon and Mary Cook (Kate Reardon’s parents) were married on January 4th, 1862 at the Chapel of Our Lady of Dolours church, in the District of Camberwell in the County of Surrey, England.   Both were of "Full age".  Denis was a milk carrier.  They both lived at 4 Victoria Place, High Street in Peckham. I was able to get more needed information from this which will be helpful.  The names of their fathers are John Reardon and John Cook.  John Reardon was a General Labourer.  John Cook was a "Fruit Hawker" which means he sold fruit on the street.  Their witnesses were John Dinahan & Alice Ginan.  I will look into these names more to see if the witnesses were relatives.  This might get me a bit farther back now that I know the father's names. They left Ireland for England, and then from England travelled to Canada in 1867 - 5 years after they were married.

I used the FreeBMD site to obtain the registration information needed to request the document from the General Register Office of England (GRO).   This site has been helpful for many of our ancestors.