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Louth / Marriage Drogheda 1878
« on: Wednesday 16 April 08 14:51 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone,
It is only two weeks until a long-awaited trip to Ireland and I find that I have a last minute request for some guidance. I just received an email from Saint Peter's (Roman Catholic) Church that there is no record of my great-grandparents' marriage there.
Here's my question. I had done some research in a microfilm and found a record of a marriage during the second quarter of 1878 in Drogheda for them. (I hope to be able to request a copy of this
at the GRO during my visit.) I had always had the impression that my great-grandmother came from someplace other than Drogheda, (see an earlier post about them in December, Ruddy-Conlan) and so the marriage in Drogheda made me ponder a little.
If the marriage was not at Saint Peter's, (and I am making an assumption here that there was a marriage in a Roman Catholic church because there is a baptism recorded at Saint Peter's for my grandfather in 1886) where might a marriage have taken place ? If the civil marriage took place in Drogheda, am I safe to assume that they both lived there at that time ?
Thanks for any ideas that you might have. I had hoped to be able to research my great-grandmother while in Ireland, but I have lost hope for finding a place of birth. Any thoughts are welcome !
Beth
It is only two weeks until a long-awaited trip to Ireland and I find that I have a last minute request for some guidance. I just received an email from Saint Peter's (Roman Catholic) Church that there is no record of my great-grandparents' marriage there.
Here's my question. I had done some research in a microfilm and found a record of a marriage during the second quarter of 1878 in Drogheda for them. (I hope to be able to request a copy of this
at the GRO during my visit.) I had always had the impression that my great-grandmother came from someplace other than Drogheda, (see an earlier post about them in December, Ruddy-Conlan) and so the marriage in Drogheda made me ponder a little.
If the marriage was not at Saint Peter's, (and I am making an assumption here that there was a marriage in a Roman Catholic church because there is a baptism recorded at Saint Peter's for my grandfather in 1886) where might a marriage have taken place ? If the civil marriage took place in Drogheda, am I safe to assume that they both lived there at that time ?
Thanks for any ideas that you might have. I had hoped to be able to research my great-grandmother while in Ireland, but I have lost hope for finding a place of birth. Any thoughts are welcome !
Beth