Any further information or hints regarding my Donegal ancestors is always appreciated.
I’ve finally found evidence that my Castledoe/Doe castle born gt grandmother, Bridget, had at least 3 siblings, and I’m now trying to work out the relationships between her, her 2 known sisters, Mary and Grace, and their husbands and children. Thanks to the Irish RC parish registers, I have been able to find more evidence of links between them.
1. Grace O’DONNELL, daughter of James O’Donnell of Magheroarty (Creeslough NOT Gortahork), married Bernard CALLIG/MCCALLIG/ MCCALLOGUE (var. sp) son of Bernard Callig, of Fanmore (sic) in Clondahorkey Chapel on 23 Jan 1870
(From the Dunfanaghy Registrar’s record Qtr 2 Vol 2 pg 99. The Clondahorkey RC PR entries are 1877-82 inclusive only)
2. Bridget O’DONNELL, daughter of James O’Donnell of Magheroarty townland, married John DEVIR, son of John Devir of Magherablad, in Clondahorky chapel on 17 Feb 1878.
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000631930#page/4/mode/ (In the denunciationes column there is a remark, ditto of the entry above it. Can someone decipher/translate it, please?)
3. Mary O’DONNELL, daughter of James O’Donnell of Magheroarty, married Francis MCBRIDE, of Creeslough, in Clondahorkey Chapel on 11 Aug 1880.
http://registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls000631930_007 first entry on lhs…(another denunciations entry for translation, please).
Mary evidently died, after having 4 chn between her marriage & abt 1889…I haven’t been able to find her death record,
BUT,
on 1 May 1897, Mary’s widower, Francis, married Rose MCCALLOGUE (sic) of Maheraroarty, daughter of Bernard McCallogue of Fanmore.
(This info comes from the Creeslough page of Donegal Genealogical Resources, and has a link to the marriage entry, but it is too blurry for me to make out…yes, another dispensation(?) entry!!)
Can we assume Rose is more likely to be Grace’s sister-in-law, i.e. her husband Bernard’s sister, rather than Grace & Bernard’s daughter.
Grace, Bridget & Mary had a brother, Michael. I know nothing more about him, so far.
