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Re: LEITH, James born abt. 1853 born Fermanagh, m. Mary Anne
« Reply #9 on: Friday 22 May 15 09:13 BST (UK) »
Wonder if Mary Leith was also known as Mary Fitzgerald? The 1895 marriage has 4 grooms on the same page but 5 brides (usually mean one was previously married) and the only 2 first names that match are Mary Leith and Mary Fitzgerald (other brides called Margaret, Ellen and Catherine).
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Re: LEITH, James born abt. 1853 born Fermanagh, m. Mary Anne
« Reply #10 on: Friday 22 May 15 10:06 BST (UK) »
funny you should say that Aghadowey i noticed on one of Kate Leith's prison records a man called Dan Neill https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMS2-FLG
who also seems to be next of kin to Mary Fitzgerald
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMS2-J4H
this Mary has a string of similar convictions

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Re: LEITH, James born abt. 1853 born Fermanagh, m. Mary Anne
« Reply #12 on: Friday 22 May 15 13:31 BST (UK) »
Looks like we found her  :)

Here are the names of 4 possible grooms- one called Daniel bit a different surname:
John Connolly
James Baker
Daniel Looney
John Smith
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Re: LEITH, James born abt. 1853 born Fermanagh, m. Mary Anne
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 23 May 15 22:21 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone, its one week to high school graduation here so I am off and on here for a few days.  Unfortunately, the info you looked at is incorrect.  If you look at the actual handwritten prison record for Kate Leith of September 1911,  you will see Mary Fitzgerald is written about her.  there is an X by Mary's name and an X with little dots around it by Kate Leith's name and over to the left of the page under former reference, they are the same marks but in a reverse order, they obviously wrote the information for the two women in the wrong order.  I know Kate has brown hair and hazel eyes and I know that in 1911 she was 33 not 49.  Sometimes you have to play detective with this information.

BUT it does look like the James Leith and Mary Anne Brown married in Enniskillen in 1864 ARE the right people.  Their ages on the 1901 census are off by 10 years, but every other document and bit of info is correct for them including references to their children.

Mary Anne was never in prison but was in the Cork Union Workhouse for a time though.

Still no info on what happened to James Leith after 1910 or 1911 though.


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Re: LEITH, James born abt. 1853 born Fermanagh, m. Mary Anne
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 23 May 15 22:23 BST (UK) »
Please see reply #9 (marriage record).
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Re: LEITH, James born abt. 1853 born Fermanagh, m. Mary Anne
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 23 May 15 22:34 BST (UK) »

Here is a link to the Leith family in 1901 and it shows my Grand Aunt, Margaret Salter Leith) as an 8 month old.  http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Bandon/Castle_Street/1088702/

This is the document that started all of my searching. And 1 of 2 documents showing her in the census.  By 1911 she and my Grandfather were living as borders in Rathcooney without the rest of the Leith family.  So this is what got me curious as to what happened to everyone else.