Birth/Bapt for Margaret Gertrude Regan or O'Regan born 27.4.1872 Passage West

[CaroleW]

Hi

My husbands maternal grandmother's birthdate has just been found on the 1939 register - 27.4.1872.

She married James Leonard Thompson in February 1898 as Maggie Gertrude Regan - father Patrick occ farmer (deceased).  1901 entry shows her as Maggie G

1911 -  birthplace is Passage West County Cork and she is Margaret

1939 register - Margaret      1957 death - Margaret

My husband says she was O'Regan but dropped the O' when she came to England.  There is no proof of this.

The family were Roman Catholic but I cannot match her birthdate to any baptisms online.

Can any baptism be found?  If not - is it possible to pay the Irish GRO for a search of birth registrations using the info I have?

FS has a birth entry for a Margaret O Regan in Cork 1872 but no quarter is shown and I don't know whether the O is actually a middle name or a mistranscription

[KGarrad]

The "O'" prefix was often dropped.
I was doing a tree for a friend, surname O'Reilly. Her parents and grandparents used the prefix intermittently in various records in Ireland, Scotland and England

www.irishgenealogy.ie, Civil Records is showing 3 Margaret Regan births:
2 June 1873, father Daniel
5 May 1872, father Daniel
13 May 1872, father Patrick, a Labourer (Registration District of Douglas, Cork)

The Catholic baptism registers can be found at:
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634969#page/51/mode/1up

But I can't find her in 1872?
You have to browse the images; there is no index

[heywood]

Hi Carole,

1901, Maggie shows place of birth as Douglas. The one mentioned by KGarrad with Douglas as registration district seems quite possible.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1872/03241/2187638.pdf

Regards
Heywood

[CaroleW]

Hi

Thanks for looking

I tried that site last night but nothing in 1872 that matched.  Looking at other entries it seemed that the children were baptised quite quickly after birth so I would have expected her to have been baptised in 1872

It doesn’t help that we have no idea whether she had any siblings.  She and her husband lived with one of their daughters and her family in Holywell from the 1940’s until their deaths in 1952 and 1957 respectively but none of her Welsh grandchildren recall any mention of any other family in Ireland. 

I am stuck when it comes to Southern Ireland resources but am happy to pay for a birth search if it’s possible

EDIT

Just got Heywoods reply as I was posting so will certainly concentrate on that entry as a good possibility

[heywood]

Some possibilities of siblings  on F S - Margaret with birthdate as civil record

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01l0n/

[heywood]

F S shows a baptism for Julia Regan  1868 -Dripsey, Cork.
Dripsey is in Inniscarra Catholic Parish.

Here is a marriage in that parish for Patrick Regan and Margaret Conor 21st May 1865

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634086#page/52/mode/1up

[heywood]

Here is Margaret’s baptism, I think.

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633276#page/14/mode/1up

She is baptised 24th  April 1872 with a birthdate 22nd April

[KGarrad]

Good find, Heywood!    (I had to go out )

The Registration District of Douglas is right next to Passage West!
See map at: https://www.townlands.ie/cork/douglas/

[annclare]

Sorry was duplicating some info.