Hi all
while going over some old baptisms i was checking out the sponsors and two that had me flummoxed for years were my grandfather's Denis O'Neill born August 1885 in Townsend St,Dublin
to Mat O'Neill and Nora Green.
They were Bartholemew O/Shea and Deborah Ardiff
Nora Green my great grandmother had a sister Julia Green who married at age 53 in 1911, just recently i looked at the civil cert and was surprised to find she was widow Julia Shea
turns out that the priest recorded her name as Julia Sullivan in 1876
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lti/now for Deborah Ardiff nee Gallivan, the name Deborah Ardiff does not appear anywhere on the civil register in Ireland but does appear twice on baptism records 1884/5 in Dublin
Deborah married Edward Ardiff in Killarney in 1878 he was a Stonecutter
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1878/11097/8061333.pdfor number 18 here
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634332#page/89/mode/1upEdward gave his parents as Edward Ardiff and Anne Reilly,Dublin but
suspect they may originally be from Kildare.
I can find no records for the Ardiff's after 1885 and was wondering could someone else, seems a bit of a mystery.
Any help much appreciated as always.
Dathai