Pages: [1]

Author Topic: james conroy  (Read 2366 times)

Offline graham saunders

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 77
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
james conroy
« on: Monday 27 July 15 15:45 BST (UK) »
in 1878 james conroy married mary eliza mcaleenan our information is sketchy they married in the long church derry  his father was described as a hotel keeptr but where is not shown However we also have a record that at the time ok his marriage he was widower   can anyone suggest a route by which we might find details of marriage no 1     thanks graham

Offline aghadowey

  • RootsChat Honorary
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 51,335
    • View Profile
Re: james conroy
« Reply #1 on: Monday 27 July 15 17:45 BST (UK) »
we also have a record that at the time ok his marriage he was widower
The marriage certificate should list his status at the time of the 1878 marriage- single/bachelor, widower, divorced.
Does he appear in any census records?
Did he leave a Will? children from a previous marriage might be mentioned.
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

Offline joemc

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 681
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: james conroy
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 28 July 15 18:52 BST (UK) »
Hello,

Little more information (without fully answering your question) I see a transcribed marriage record for James Conroy where it states he was a Solicitor, I think this is incorrect and should read Surveyor

Looks like him in 1901 census Derry City:
 http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Waterside/Clooney_Terrace/1539813/

Born Queens county, Ireland (now county Laois) Maybe you should look there for former marriage

Son born 1878 Edmund Hugh Conroy, father, James Conroy Surveyor, Clooney tce.

2 older children born in Kent, England
McCorkell, Clarke, Williams, Craig, Baird, Peoples, MacDonald, Wray and associated families, Counties Donegal and Londonderry, Ireland and America

Offline joemc

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 681
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: james conroy
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 28 July 15 19:13 BST (UK) »
Possibly James and family 1871 Census England:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFXF-4JN
McCorkell, Clarke, Williams, Craig, Baird, Peoples, MacDonald, Wray and associated families, Counties Donegal and Londonderry, Ireland and America

Offline joemc

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 681
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: james conroy
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 28 July 15 22:29 BST (UK) »
I did a little more research on James Conroy, it looks like he was trained as a Surveyor by the Royal Engineers, searching on google  John Conroy+ Royal Engineers brings up some fascinating results!

This seems to be the same man, same birth county and fits with his future career as surveyor and i would be fairly confident they are one and the same the link below to a book which has a map of New Westminster BC drawn by Sapper James Conroy in 1864

http://tinyurl.com/od3frvg

James Conroy was born 1834, Parish of Reary (Laois) service number 1163, Royal Engineers (full record available at findmypast.co.uk)

Regards
 
McCorkell, Clarke, Williams, Craig, Baird, Peoples, MacDonald, Wray and associated families, Counties Donegal and Londonderry, Ireland and America

Offline graham saunders

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 77
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: james conroy
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 29 July 15 11:46 BST (UK) »
thankyou for your replies and research  however it is his life prior to 1878 that we seek he stretcher the truth a little he was in fact a solr.lerk. his second wife mary liza was a milliner

Offline joemc

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 681
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: james conroy
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 29 July 15 12:12 BST (UK) »
Ok, sorry, see my mistake, coincidence, different James Conroy, just happened to have a son baptised in Derry in 1878.

A little more info in original post may have helped for instance the fact that James and Mary had a daughter baptised in County Tipperary in 1880

Regards
McCorkell, Clarke, Williams, Craig, Baird, Peoples, MacDonald, Wray and associated families, Counties Donegal and Londonderry, Ireland and America
Pages: [1]