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Topic: Jane QUINN, possibly of Beleek (Read 481 times)
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nigelo
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Jane Quinn married my Gt Gt grandfather Charles Smitherman in Tonbridge, Kent in 1866. On their marriage certificate she gives this information – age 24 (so born about 1842), father Patrick Quinn, deceased, policeman. Unfortunately there are a lot of Patrick Quinn’s in England prior to 1866, and many of them seem to have become policeman! None obviously fit as Jane’s father though.
On the 1871 census the enumerator unhelpfully just ditto’d her husband’s place of birth, Tonbridge, Kent, which is actually wrong for both of them!
In 1881 it gives her place of birth as Ireland, Fermanagh, and age now 38 (birth in 1843)
In 1891 the place becomes just Ireland
Finally in 1901 we get something useful, “Ireland, Billick”, and a dob of 1842.
I’ve hunted through Irish place names, and found nowhere called Billick, but did find “Belleek”, near Enniskillen, in Fermanagh which seems a likely answer.
Do parish records for Beleek still exist, and if so where can I find them? I'm hopefully going to be able to visit the area next year, so would gladly go wherever necessary to look at them. Can anyone help?
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OSBORNE, WAGHORN, LEDGER, DRURY, SMITHERMAN, TYLER, HUMPHREY, RABBITT, STAPLEY, BATT, WENMAN, SANDS, BUSS, QUINN, GARNETT
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aghadowey
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Belleek, which is famous for its pottery, sounds a likely possibility.
Do you know what religion Jane would have been?
The LDS catalogue shows 'Parochial records of Pettigo (Donegal) 1836-1881' which would cover Belleek:
"The Catholic parish of Pettigo (Carn or Templecarn) formerly included the civil parishes of Templecarn and Belleek. Belleek is in county Fermanagh; Templecarn is partly in Fermanagh, but chiefly in Donegal. There were chapels in Pettigo, Lettercran and Belleek."
If these are the records you want you can order the microfilm from your local LDS library for a small fee to be viewed there.
If Jane Quinn wasn't Catholic the above records will be no use and other possibilities are Church of Ireland, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc.
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nigelo
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Thanks for that. I can guess she was Catholic, as her English marriage was in an RC chapel. So I will take a trip to our local LDS centre.
I'd still like to see the originals when I visit Ireland. Anyone know where they would be kept?
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