Michael Hendry Co. Derry 1886

[kjmck]

I found this also - but am now attempting to find the mother's of John Magee & Mary Ann Downey. Potential mother for Mary Ann Downey is Mary Devlin.

[gaffy]

Yes, Mary Anne's parents were David Downey/Downing and Mary Devlin, John's parents were Henry Magee and Ann McElhatton.

[kjmck]

How did you find those so quickly? I don't seem to be getting the nack of the right way to search.

[gaffy]

In this case the possible baptisms I could see (ie. of Mary Anne Downey and John Magee - transcriptions only) were subsequently annotated to confirm their 1911 marriage details, so little doubt whether the right folk or not and thus a quick result on their parents.

[kjmck]

Oh really? I wasn't able to locate, specifically anyway, the baptismal records of John or Mary Ann.

[gaffy]

John was baptised on 5 June 1873, birth date given as 3 June, the address as Gulladuff, this is the civil birth record that relates (mother's surname 'Hatton'):
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1873/03202/2174105.pdf

Mary Anne was baptised on 2 September 1876, the address was given as Drummuck, this is the civil birth record that relates:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03048/2117745.pdf

[kjmck]

I see I see, I don't think I expanded my year search that far back to find them.

Did you use the same web page/search engine to find the marriages of their parents also?

[kjmck]

Try as I might I can't find the marriage for Henry Magee & Anne McEl/Hatton

[gaffy]

Try as I might I can't find the marriage for Henry Magee & Anne McEl/Hatton

Lavey RC parish, 12 January 1860, Henry Magee married Ann Hatton, the marriage was witnessed by Hugh Hatton and Susan Murphy, that is all the information there is, as you may know, there won't be a civil record as it was pre 1864.

BTW, note that a Henry Magee married an Ann Jane Downey in Lavey RC parish on 14 June 1859 and had children at Gulladuff around the time of John Magee's birth, lots of scope for confusion.