Michael Loughrey c1820

[Wodgemac]

I'm researching my maternal grandfather John Richard Loughrey's ancestry and have come unstuck with his Great Grandfather Michael Loughrey.
My grandfathers dad was James Augustine Loughrey born in Bangor 1882 and married to Kathleen Hunt.
His Grandfather was James Loughrey born c1851, married to Mary Jane McMullan (she was from Belfast, but I'm stuck there, I think her father was Joseph and her mother was Ann Jane Gourley), they had a greengrocers on Main street Bangor.
His Great Grandfather was Michael Loughrey who was married to Rose Fagan at Kirkinriola, Down and Connor on 30th April 1842?? lived at 7 Ballynagee street, Bangor in 1864
Any assistance in discovering more about that side of my family would be greatly appreciated.
Richard McGrorey

[Elwyn Soutter]

His Great Grandfather was Michael Loughrey who was married to Rose Fagan at Kirkinriola, Down and Connor on 30th April 1842?? lived at 7 Ballynagee street, Bangor.
Any assistance in discovering more about that side of my family would be greatly appreciated.
Richard McGrorey

Kirkinriola is the parish around Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Unfortunately their RC records don't start till 1848.

[Wodgemac]

Oh, Thank you.
Does that mean I won't be able to track them any farther back or is there a chance there could be records from other areas with them moving to Bangor?

[Elwyn Soutter]

James Loughrey’s 1882 birth certificate gives his mother’s maiden name as McMillan. I looked for the McMillan- Loughrey marriage but couldn’t see it in the statutory records.

I assume this is the family in 1901:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Bangor/Bridge_Street/1252471/

and 1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Bangor/Bridge_Street/260936/

Note 12 children born, 9 alive in 1911. Parents married 36 years so around 1875.

Bangor is in the RC parish of Newtownards. Their baptisms only start in 1864, so you may struggle to get back much further with them.

[athacliath62]

Michael and Jane married St. Peters Catholic church Belfast 15th november 1874 (gives parents names)

[Wodgemac]

Yes Elwyn that's them in 1901 and 1911 thank you.

Athacliath62 thank you, I can't make out where Jane and her parents are from in the record, can you?
Is that a street in Belfast?

[athacliath62]

the address for Jane looks like Townsend Street to me - cant make out the address for her parents at the moment

[Wodgemac]

Is it just me or does her parents surname look totally different? and is one of the witness's a John Loughrey?

[aghadowey]

Is it just me or does her parents surname look totally different? and is one of the witness's a John Loughrey?

I see a marriage for a James Loughrey of Bangor to a Jane (bottom of page) but can't see marriage for Michael & Jane McMullan[?] (yes, her parents' surname does look a bit different)