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I am struggling to find birth records for Sarah Gibson and her daughter Ellen Jane. I believe that Sarah was born in Downpatrick sometime around 1856, records in later life appear to confirm that she was the illegitimate daughter of Foster Gibson (he was named as her father on her 1891 marriage record) and Jane Copeland (Sarah was named as her daughter on the 1899 record of death for Jane) but for the life of me I cannot find a birth record for Sarah.

Moving on in years we know that Sarah married Francis Delahunt in 1891 and census records show that she gave birth to a daughter sometime around 1886, I believe that Francis may have been the father but I cannot find a birth record for her, on later records Ellen uses both her mothers maiden and married name (Gibson & Delahunt) but I still cannot see her birth record.

Any suggestion or help in finding these records would be most appreciated - GedB

I have four marriage records for different children with Paolo Sillato and Maria Borg named as parents but my very limited Latin seems to be telling me that at least one of them has been married before and that the person being married is of another father which could be right but I would like confirmation before going to far. GedB

I am hoping that someone can decipher or translate the childs name from this 1689 Maltese baptism record, we believe that the family name is Sillato and that the parents are Marruzzio Sillato and wife Dominchella but even with the childs name appearing on the record twice I still cannot work it out - GedB

I am sure versions of this question have been asked before on RoosChat but I cannot find anything. South Dublin Workhouse records confirm that Bridget Byrne the second daughter of Ellen Byrne was born there on 23rd August 1880. Her elder sister Mary was born at the same workhouse in 1879 and younger sister Anne in the same place in 1882 with both births registered by the workhouse officer in the Rathdown District.
I can only assume that the workhouse officer had a few drams of the amber nectar before he registered the birth of Bridget because first it was registered in South Dublin and then he used mother Ellen's maiden name (Ward) as the family name and made Byrne the mother’s maiden name so we ended up with John Ward instead of John Byrne as the father and Ellen Byrne instead of Ellen Ward, all other details including the date of birth and the father residing at Naas are correct.
My question therefore is which name is correct by law, she is recorded as Bridget Byrne in the 1901 census and on her marriage certificate but as Bridget Ward on her birth certificate, does this in theory make her marriage wrong or is it just viewed as a genuine mistake.
GedB

During some recent searches in Ireland I came across an extremely detailed obituary for Honoria Morahan who was born in Co Mayo around 1866 and died in Castlebar March 1930 but one part of it has me rather confused. It states that “Deceased had come of a family stock whose name figured prominently for generations in the struggles of our beloved country. She was acquainted with sacrifice in her young days and did not afterwards shrink when as a wife and mother, she was called upon to endure further suffering and persecution for “Dark Rosaleen””
Assuming this is referring to the poem “Dark Rosaleen” I am struggling to understand how a young woman from Co Mayo is suffering persecution for a poem, albeit a very controversial poem, that was written over twenty years before she was born. I have read the translation many times and also read of the theories and explanations that go with it, but cannot see a link, I assume there must be something, possibly family or something similar, but at the moment the reason is bypassing me and I am hoping that someone may be able to point out what I am missing.
GedB