Peagum family

[alexreg]

Thanks dathai, by the way.

For others looking at these results, here's a link that includes Mary Anna, b. 1868, along with the others. She wasn't included in dathai's results because she was actually born in County Tiperrary.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-perform-search.jsp?namefm=&namel=peacan&exact=&name2fm=&name2l=&location=&yyfrom=&yyto=&type=B&century=&decade=&sort=&pageSize=100&ddBfrom=&mmBfrom=&yyBfrom=&ddMfrom=&mmMfrom=&yyMfrom=&ddDfrom=&mmDfrom=&yyDfrom=&ddPfrom=&mmPfrom=&yyPfrom=&ddBto=&mmBto=&yyBto=&ddMto=&mmMto=&yyMto=&ddDto=&mmDto=&yyDto=&ddPto=&mmPto=&yyPto=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&locationP=&keywordb=&keywordm=&keywordd=&keywordp=&event=&district=&submit=Search

[heywood]

MaryPeacan  (Mary Anne) married Michael Fitzgerald in Limerick in 1887.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1887/10823/5947434.pdf

This family seem to use Peacan consistently so it would seem at the moment that it is not your family.

Heywood

[alexreg]

MaryPeacan  (Mary Anne) married Michael Fitzgerald in Limerick in 1887.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1887/10823/5947434.pdf

This family seem to use Peacan consistently so it would seem at the moment that it is not your family.

Heywood

Yes, you're probably right. It's interesting that I match genetically with a bunch of Ryan's from the Limerick/Northern Tiperrary area though.

[Sinann]

You can't look sideways without seeing a Ryan in that part of the country, it's a wash with them.

[alexreg]

You can't look sideways without seeing a Ryan in that part of the country, it's a wash with them.

Haha, fair enough. I was hoping the rarity of the Peagum surname would help me in my search, but it seems to have only proved a hinderance!

Do you have any ideas where to look next? I haven't ruled out the George Peagum from Devon in the Royal Navy, but that's still a very tentative guess! Maybe the Peagum surname wasn't her birth surname, and could be of a stepfather, adoptive parents, relative, or such? I'm going to check tonight on IrishGenealogy.ie through the 129 Emily's born in Limerick, and see if anything interesting shows up.

[Sinann]

I looked at all (I think) of the Peagum type surnames female births in Limerick in the hope of finding a Mary Emily or similar so you might as well try the Emilys of all surnames.
Other than trawling the parish registers I can't think of anything else at this stage.

[alexreg]

I looked at all (I think) of the Peagum type surnames female births in Limerick in the hope of finding a Mary Emily or similar so you might as well try the Emilys of all surnames.
Other than trawling the parish registers I can't think of anything else at this stage.

It's quite perplexing, isn't it? It's like Emily never even existed until she gave birth to her first child!

Anyway, I searched through the records, though I didn't find much of note. There's an Emilia born 1867, no father's name given, to a Margret McGuane – seems a bit tenuous though. https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1867/03492/2283308.pdf

Short of hiring a top-notch professional genealogist now, I'm out of ideas! (And I'm not sure how much further they'd get.)

[heywood]

It is most perplexing.
In your first post, you are quite specific with her birth year yet the censuses show different birth years.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that widening the search helps to find the elusive Emily.

[alexreg]

It is most perplexing.
In your first post, you are quite specific with her birth year yet the censuses show different birth years.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that widening the search helps to find the elusive Emily.

Yeah. I was specific because I assumed the age on her marriage certificate was exact. Then I started doubting that... But you're right, widening the search (even by 10 years either side) doesn't seem to help at all.

I've literally only found one Emily Peagum/Pegum in Great Britain in the 19th C, and this was a woman born in Devon, who seemed to have married a man named Jenkins.