Please help find a marriage that SHOULD be straightforward

[Gr8scot227]

Hello,

I am trying to find what should be a straightforward marriage. I don't know if I just can't see the woods for the trees but I am stuck. I have checked a few databases but can't find it.

I am looking for a James Robinson (possibly could be William James) marriage to a Catherine Doherty, around 1896. I have her maiden name from one of their children's birth cert.

In the 1901 and 1911 censuses they live in Londonderry, and their 4 children where born there starting 1898. It also state in 1911 that they have been married 15 years. Catherine was born in Derry and James/William James in Donegal. Based on all this I am assuming they married around Londonderry.

Thank you!

[gaffy]

Hi, can you post the census links? Just to save time...

[Gr8scot227]

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Londonderry_Urban__2_/Donegal_Place/602249/

Thank you.

[taramcdsmall]

Hi There

This one is a bit out on the year but there is a James Robinson and ELIZABETH Doherty on the same page - of course you will only know if it's correct by purchasing it.

James Robinson
Jan-Feb-Mar 1892
Londonderry
Volume:    2
Page Number:    185

Tara

[taramcdsmall]

Hi There

The free index on IFHF confirms that the 1892 marriage that I posted IS James Robinson to Elizabeth Doherty - could Elizabeth / Catherine be the same person ?

Tara

[Gr8scot227]

I don't think it was Elizabeth. It is Catherine on her child's birth cert and censuses. Then again who knows, I keep finding people using their middle names. Thanks for looking.

[scotmum]

Hi There

This one is a bit out on the year but there is a James Robinson and ELIZABETH Doherty on the same page - of course you will only know if it's correct by purchasing it.

James Robinson
Jan-Feb-Mar 1892
Londonderry
Volume:    2
Page Number:    185

Tara

The James of this marriage doesn't seem to have a father named William though.

Looking at 15 years married, and comparing with their ages, could both have been married to others previously? Perhaps Doherty was Catherine's maiden name, and given on the birth records of their children, but when marrying James, she married under her previous married name.

Although not immediately jumping out at me on the Civil index, the rootsireland site do seem to have an 1897 marriage in Londonderry or County Londonderry for a James Robinson, father William, to a Catherine _______.

[scotmum]

I see there is a relative with surname 'Duffy' in the household at 1911. So, going back to rootsireland and trying 'Catherine Duffy' with spouse James Robinson and his father William, gets a hit for 1897 - still not finding match on Civil Index though.

There also seems to have been a Teressa Duffy born to a ____ Duffy and Catherine Doherty in Londonderry area in 1889. 

FindMyPast has an 1885 Catherine Doherty marriage and in list of 4 potential Spouses is a  Patrick Duffy, but Patrick does not fit as father's forename for above birth nor for an 1886 rootsireland marriage entry for a Catherine Doherty to a ______ Duffy.

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   The marriage mentioned above took place in St. Columbs Church of Ireland, Londonderry on
20 Jul 1897.

Regards