Hi all,
I'm currently tracing my ancestry back to my great-great-grandparents in Aughnacloy. As you can see here in the 1901 census Patrick & Sarah Slavin have a child who not only has a different surname, but a different
religion. The whole entire family is RC (Joseph Slavin, the eldest son, is my great granddad) but Jane Campbell, who is only 15 and single, is reportedly Church of Ireland.
1901 -
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Aughancloy_Urban_Aughancloy_Town_in_17_files/Mill_Street/1724189/1901 transcript -
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001182229/1911 -
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Aughnacloy_Urban/Mill_Street/854156/1911 transcript -
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003412197/Both Patrick and Sarah are 40 and 36 respectively in 1901, but dramatically have aged 56 and 57 respectively in just 10 years in the 1911 census (pensions act came into effect in 1908, possibly causing them to lie). in 1911 they've stated also they've been married for 24 years. However I have found only one document matching a Patrick Slavin and Sarah across a 30 year span, that was in 1897 in Aghaloo (the RC parish next to Aughnacloy) meaning they were married 14 years by 1911, not 24 (again they've lied to tie the whole thing in I assume).
I have a printscreen of the marriage certificate from rootsireland.ie:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/2mec1o6.jpg (if you open it up the first time there are adds, close it and open it up again there are none and its clearer)
What is interesting from that is Sarah's maiden name is also
Campbell, the same surname as Jane. So we can assume that's her daughter from a previous relationship. Now I did some research on this and found a birth certificate for a Jane Campbell in Clogher in 1886 (matching her age), with mother Sarah Campbell and an unknown/not stated father. The child was therefore illegitimate.
http://oi60.tinypic.com/dxh6xd.jpgBut what I am most confused about and I would like to resolve if possible is that Jane Campbell is protestant and her mother in both 1901 and 1911 is stated as catholic. I have absolutely no idea why this is? I'm curious to know about what my great-great-grandmother's religion is and is it possible this was a mixed marriage? I'm stuck on this and would appreciate some help!