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Falsified info?
« on: Wednesday 08 October 14 19:53 BST (UK) »
On my husbands grandfathers birth cert in Scotland his parents have stated that they were married in 1896 in Maid Street Chapel in Dublin. The child was given his fathers surname but then there is a corrected entry and the child is given his mothers surname. I'm wondering if the parents weren't married at all. Does anyone know if Maid Street Chapel existed? Thanks.

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Re: Falsified info?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 08 October 14 20:41 BST (UK) »
Wonder if that should be Meath Street.

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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 08 October 14 21:34 BST (UK) »
Was there a Meath Street in Dublin? Was there a Meath Street Chapel?

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Re: Falsified info?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 08 October 14 21:38 BST (UK) »
It should be easy enough to find the marriage indexed (not as good as getting the actual certificate but will at least show that they did marry).
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

If you have trouble then post their names and maybe someone else will be able to find them.
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Re: Falsified info?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 08 October 14 21:52 BST (UK) »
They were George Jenkins and Bridget Collins. I've just had a quick look and couldn't find anything. Maybe they didn't get married then.

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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 16 October 14 09:46 BST (UK) »
I also had a quick look and couldn't find a marriage as stated

However on a paid site there is another tree that seems to match these facts
It implies that this is the baptism of Bridget COLLINS
and that she married George JENKINS on March 3rd 1896 but giving no source

Also that she had a daughter Ethel
Ethel's marriage record in Scotland shows her as Ethel COLLINS formerly JENKINS
and her parentage is descibed as
(F) William JENKINS Brushmaker
(M) Bridget COLLINS afterwards married to William BROGAN Labourer

It could be that William and Bridget divorced or never married!
Kearney & Bourke/ Johns & Fox/ Mannion & Finan/ Donohoe & Curley
Byrne [Carthy], Keeffe/ Germaine, Butler/ McDermott, Giblin/ Lally, Dolan
Toole, Doran; Dowling, Grogan/ Reilly, Burke; Warren, Kidd [Lawless]/ Smith, Scally; Mangan, Rodgers/ Fahy, Calday; Staunton, Miller
Further generations:
Brophy Coleman Eathorn(e) Fahy Fitzpatrick Geraghty Haverty Keane Keogh Nowlan Rowe Walder

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Re: Falsified info?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 02 March 23 16:04 GMT (UK) »
On my husbands grandfathers birth cert in Scotland his parents have stated that they were married in 1896 in Maid Street Chapel in Dublin. The child was given his fathers surname but then there is a corrected entry and the child is given his mothers surname. I'm wondering if the parents weren't married at all. Does anyone know if Maid Street Chapel existed? Thanks.

Hi, I have just joined the site while looking for information on my paternal great grandparents and it looks like my great grandparents George Jenkins and Bridget Collins also state they were married in Maid Street Chapel, Dublin 3rd March 1896.    My grandfather was Michael Jenkins (b.1897) married to Mary Ann McGuire  in 1916 in Greenock and then remarried to my grandmother Catherine Tinney in 1928.

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« Reply #7 on: Friday 03 March 23 06:45 GMT (UK) »
As already suggested, Maid St. sounds like a mishearing of Meath St. to me. If Scotland was like Ireland then entries were made by a registrar listening to answers from the informant - the informant did not make the entries directly.

And there is a Meath St. parish
https://www.meathstreetparish.ie/

More on Meath St.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/meath-street-outpost-of-a-disappearing-dublin-1.1967467
BRENNANx2 Davidstown/Taghmon,Ballybrennan; COOPER St.Helens;CREAN Raheennaskeagh/Ballywalter;COSGRAVE Castlebridge?;CULLEN Lady's Island;CULLETON Forth Commons;CURRAN Hillbrook, Wic;DOYLE Clonee/Tombrack;FOX Knockbrandon; FURLONG Moortown;HAYESx2 Walsheslough/Wex;McGILL Litter;MORRIS Forth Commons;PIERCE Ladys Island;POTTS Bennettstown;REDMOND Gerry; ROCHEx2 Wex; ROCHFORD Ballysampson/Ballyhit;SHERIDAN Moneydurtlow; SINNOTT Wex;SMYTH Gerry/Oulart;WALSH Kilrane/Wex; WHITE Tagoat area

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Re: Falsified info?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 03 March 23 13:09 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for this