Thank you all for your comments and help regarding my request below.
>>> Can anyone explain a ten-year gap between the birth of my G-Grandmother 1838-40 prior her parent's marriage 1850? <<<
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>>> I would love to hear the views of people in Ireland of the probabilities of the reasons this could have been. <<<
It is obvious I have not explained myself clearly by the comments returned. I apologise for that!
I feel we all need to more diligent when reading posts… it is so easy to miss what has been ask.
These being the replies.
PaulineJ >>> Since you do not have the baptism (1838-1840) how do you even know who the mother is, let alone the father. ?” Go back and read this post.<<<
[We are talking about my Mothers Grandmother.]
PaulineJ>>> Where do you even mention her by name?
What makes you think we know her name if you haven't told us what it was? <<<
It was not my intention of giving names, I have already completed her tree from age 16 to her death, I was not asking for a search. I am not a beginner at this game.
My purpose was to ask what other people thought of the situation for those times in Ireland?
Thank you one and all, keep up your great work! I very much appreciate all the help I have had over the years.
Kaz
First of all, you seem to think that we haven't paid attention to what you'd written. Research, especially Irish research, is not always straight forward. Sometimes you need to expand a search further than anticipated in order to look at other possibilities. We could, and have already, speculated about this ten year gap but there are many possible reasons for this which is why more details were asked of you.
Many people don't always know the names of their grandparents, let alone great-grandparents, and in earlier times they may not even have been sure of their mother's Christian name.
You did say "I am at a loss as to the next step I could take to prove one way or another? " and we were trying to help you with this. Here's one example-
As has been mentioned, perhaps her mother was married previously. Is she described as a spinster on the marriage record?Many of us have been research for decades and know various resources to check that you might never have heard of before and new information is constantly being out online (census records, vital records, etc.). I've only been doing Irish research since the early 1970s and am constantly learning new things.
