Author Topic: Lamont/McCarthy wedding album 1956 New York USA/Coleraine Ireland  (Read 1202 times)

Offline maggbill

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,035
  • Francis McNab 1874 - 1932
    • View Profile
Lamont/McCarthy wedding album 1956 New York USA/Coleraine Ireland
« on: Tuesday 16 May 17 09:36 BST (UK) »
Just found a link on my facebook page re a wedding album which was found during a house clearance in Coleraine Northern Ireland, early this month (May 2017).  It relates to Mary Teresa Lamont marrying Richard Laurence McCarthy in Our Lady of Angels Church New York USA - on 8th Sept. 1956.  The facebook link is https://www.facebook.com/denismcneillqradio/ - I think he is a Northern Ireland radio personality who knows about the album. 
The album cover says "Our Childrens Wedding" - so who knows the story of why it was "lost".  Could it have been an Irish parent who had no relatives left in Coleraine?  It just seemed to me that someone somewhere would just love to have this album.  Not sure if this should go on Ireland or USA forum... Fairly vague possibility of finding the family - but who knows - Rootschat has achieved many amazing things.
McNab, Kenney, Johnstone, Carrigan, (Cargan, Kirgan, Corrigan), Toll, Tracey, McNulty,  Reilly, Maguire, Loughlin, Banks, McGonagle, Forsyth, McDonald, Michael,  Kennedy, Bagnell, Cronan, Dunleavy, McMullan. -  Glasgow, Ireland, British Columbia Canada, Manchester New Hampshire USA.

Offline aghadowey

  • RootsChat Honorary
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 51,349
    • View Profile
Re: Lamont/McCarthy wedding album 1956 New York USA/Coleraine Ireland
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 16 May 17 09:49 BST (UK) »
Message posted on a Facebook page saying couple's daughter had been contacted so no need to search further-
UPDATE ..I have made contact with the couple's daughter and will be posting the wedding album across the Atlantic soon. Unfortunately both Richard and Mary have passed away, but will be forever immortalised in these pictures of one of the happiest days of their lives on the web.

https://www.facebook.com/causewaycoastcommunity/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

Offline maggbill

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,035
  • Francis McNab 1874 - 1932
    • View Profile
Re: Lamont/McCarthy wedding album 1956 New York USA/Coleraine Ireland
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 May 17 10:45 BST (UK) »
Thanks for this Aghadowey,

So good to hear that a treasure like this has reached its home!  Us Rootschatters appreciate the value of such a find!
McNab, Kenney, Johnstone, Carrigan, (Cargan, Kirgan, Corrigan), Toll, Tracey, McNulty,  Reilly, Maguire, Loughlin, Banks, McGonagle, Forsyth, McDonald, Michael,  Kennedy, Bagnell, Cronan, Dunleavy, McMullan. -  Glasgow, Ireland, British Columbia Canada, Manchester New Hampshire USA.