My biggest brick wall is that of my great grandmother. Here is what I know.
In 1897, she married Cornelius Driscoll, in Preston, Lancashire. She is of full age. Her father is noted as James Salmon, market gardener. They marry in a Roman Catholic church. He was born in to a family of Church Of Ireland. (Would he have had to be rebaptised to become a Catholic)?
1898, first daught Mary Anne O'Driscoll is born, in Dublin.
Fast forward to 1911, six children have been born, the last child being Anastacia who died as a baby.
Mary Anne, Rose, Catherine, Joseph, Cornelius and Anastacia.
1901 census and 1911 census, the O'Driscoll family are living in Swords, Dublin. She puts her place of birth as Dublin. Cornelius is from Kildare. Age wise, her birth of year works out to be around 1872-1874.
1925, there is a death record for her in Swords, again, it puts her birth at around 1873.
I cannot, anywhere, find a birth of Mary Salmon, around these years, with the father James. I presume he is alive by the time they marry, as Cornelius father has died and he writes that his dad is deceased, whereas Mary does not.
There is a Mary Salmon in 1875, born in Kilkenny, to a father James, but Kilkenny looks quite far away?
The only other Salmon name I have to go on, are as follows, on the marriage cert of Mary and Cornelius, there is a Catherine Salmon as a witness. And when Rose O'Driscoll (my great great aunt) died in 1924, the informant is a Bridget Salmon.
Can anyone help? I've gone over ever Mary Salmon on irishgenealogy, i've search until I couldn't search anymore on rootsireland, I've scoured the newspaper for Dublin and for Preston, I have look on the 1901 and 1911 census for James Salmon and i've search for Mary Salmon in England in 1891...
I am really stuck! I've only managed to find Cornelius Driscolls birth in 1874 and his parents marriage in 1865, and then I'm stuck again!
