Author Topic: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath  (Read 18905 times)

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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 08 July 14 15:22 BST (UK) »
Hi Lisa,

I wonder if this is a sibling of Mary's? William Gray has a mother Anne.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FPT6-KRJ

There is a William in both censuses (I think mistranscribed as 90 yrs in 1901) but he has no family with him.

Re the 'O'Harah' mention. There is a marriage in 1889 where Anne Gray and John O'Harah are on the same page. :-\. They may not be a couple though as there are others.

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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 09 July 14 19:34 BST (UK) »
Could his age in 1901 be 20,do you think, heywood?  Written with a curl at the top of the 2?  A William Gray appears in the 1911 census with the age given as 30, also in Taghmon.

Still having no luck finding Michael Meagher, Mary Gray or their possible fathers (or Mary's possible mother) in the 1901 census - they all seem to be either wrong place, wrong age or with wrong people. I'm a bit hampered by Michael's varying years of birth - 1876 according to his death registration, or about 1868 according to the 1911 census.  Are the census records complete on line, or are there some bits missing?

I've found a birth for a Michael Meagher in Parsonstown in 1870, which is where Mary and Michael married.  Might be worth a try, nothing to lose!

Last night my mother in law gave me a bundle of family photographs, so I least have some faces to put to names now.

I've attached a copy of the the birth registration for Mary Gray - a note has been added to say the other birth registration is a duplicate of this one.
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 09 July 14 19:46 BST (UK) »
Yes, that's what I thought re William - would say it's the same person but sadly  no help!

The address on the certificate is Farrancallan which is in Taghmon civil parish as is Taghmon townland.
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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 09 July 14 19:54 BST (UK) »
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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 09 July 14 19:59 BST (UK) »
Just took a look again at Michael and Mary's marriage registration - witnesses were Rose O'Hara and William Gray.
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 09 July 14 20:23 BST (UK) »
I think that's the right family and census then  :)
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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 09 July 14 20:26 BST (UK) »
On that birth for Mary, her mother Anne doesn't appear to be married, formerly is crossed out. Michael is possibly made up.

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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 09 July 14 20:35 BST (UK) »
She might well have used her stepfather's first name with her birth surname.
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Re: Meagher/Maher, Mullingar, Westmeath
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 09 July 14 20:45 BST (UK) »
It looks as though poor young Michael was killed in WW1

M J O' Hara
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