I presume you mean Edward McKrink, rather than Edward Doran as Margaret's father. The surname was spelt McCrink/McKrink/Mcrink and could be found mainly in South County Down, mostly in Kilbroney (Rostrevor) and Kilkeel parishes and your McKrinks appear to have lived in Kilkeel parish.
If you go to this website (
www.ancestryireland) you will find the baptismal info for Margaret McCrink (father Edward McCrink, mother Catherine Quinn) in 1861. I say baptismal rather than birth since civil registration didn't start until 1864. This is a pay per view site but is worth it if you are not living in Ireland. This website does not have ALL the births/baptisms for Co Down and Antrim, but it does have a lot. You can also access birth information from this website
www.familysearch.org (click on the International Genealogical Index button on the left hand side of the screen when you go into SEARCH.
This is what I found on Margaret and her family - Margaret seems to have had at least 9 siblings (that I could find online).
Surname: McCrink; Mother's Surname: Quinn; Mother's Forename: Catherine; Father's Forename: Edward MCCRINK ELIZABETH 1851
MCCRINK JOHN 1856
MCCRINK SARAH 1857
MCCRINK PATRICK 1859
MCCRINK MARGARET1861
MCCRINK ELLEN 1863
International Genealogical Index-
ANNE MCKRINK born 30 Aug.1865 Kilkeel, Down (p.245 in civil register)
CATHERINE MC KRINK born 8 Nov.1867 Co. Down
Edward McCrink born 15 Non.1872 Kilkeel, Down
James McCrink born 8 July1877 Kilkeel, Down
With regard to census information, you won't be able to find anything before 1901 for Co. Down as they were all destroyed. However, we do have census substitutions and one is the Griffiths Valuation Index which gives the name of the head of household and the townland he lived in.
Your McKrinks (they are spelt McRink on the Griffiths) lived in Ballynahatten townland in Kilkeel parish. This is the website where you can access information on Edward (who is landlord was, etc.) - see
hereYou can see the actual page as well and from this, it looks like Edward shared a site with a Sarah McRink (possibly his mother since he has a daughter also called Sarah). The Griffiths Valuation was taken in 1863/1864 but there was also a Tithes Index taken in 1830 which also gives the head of household and in Ballynahatten, the McCrink living there was John (possibly Edward's father, again he has a son called John).
Unfortunately the Kilkeel Roman Catholic parish records only started in 1839 but are illegible up to 1845 so you won;t be able to find Edward's birth or his parents.
I can't find this family in the 1901 census in Ballynahatton. There was a McCrink family living in Ballynahatton but Hugh was born c. 1841. He could have been a younger brother of Edward - he was born too early to be one of Edward's sons. This family is gone by 1911. I think Hugh's son Thomas (McRink) is a servant in 1911, so his parents must be dead by then.
I believe this is the death of Margaret's father :
Edward M'Crink, age 59, Jan - Mar 1882, Kilkeel Registration District, volume 1, page 461
and possibly her mother's death :
Catherine M'Crink, age 68, Jul - Sep 1903, Kilkeel Registration District, volume 1, page 382