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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Topic started by: Deer243 on Saturday 31 October 15 11:21 GMT (UK)
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I've been trying to find a marriage record for Robert Dillon and his Wife Sarah in Manchester where they were living in the mid 1800s but with no luck. Given that they came from Ireland it seems possible that they married before coming over to England. Would any one be willing to have a look on RootsIreland for me? Robert and Sarah's first child (that I know of) was born in 1848 in England.
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Have you tried familysearch?
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No, thank you for the idea, I'll have a look now
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No luck on Family Search I'm afraid
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Could this be him?
Name: Robert Dillon
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 3 May 1836
Marriage Place: Saint Denis,York,York,England
Spouse: Sarah Dumfee
FHL Film Number: 990872
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I don't think so. Robert and Sarah were both born in Ireland and they first appear in the census in 1851 in Manchester so it looks like they went straight from Ireland to Manchester. Also as their first child was born in 1848 I would have expected the marriage to be closer to this date.
Thanks for looking though!
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http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/
Link which gives general info on surnames,
- variants of the name listed on r/h side.
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I've been trying to find a marriage record for Robert Dillon and his Wife Sarah in Manchester where they were living in the mid 1800s but with no luck. Given that they came from Ireland it seems possible that they married before coming over to England. Would any one be willing to have a look on RootsIreland for me? Robert and Sarah's first child (that I know of) was born in 1848 in England.
Do you have the birth certificate or baptism details of the child born in 1848 - this should show Sarah's maiden name to help in search for, or proving true, a marriage correct if found
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I'm afraid not. I suspect that Robert and Sarah Dillon are related in some way to my Dillon's but the evidence is quite thin at the moment so I had been holding off buying any certificates but it looks like that might be the easiest way to prove or disprove a connection.
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You haven't mentioned what religion they might have been. Civil registration of non-Catholic marriages in Ireland started in 1845 (most extracted in Irish marriage database on www.familysearch.org) but registration of Catholic ones didn't start until 1864.
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Ah, sorry, I'd forgotten that. They were Catholic and so civil registration would be too late for them.
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Good and bad news then.
Irish Catholic Parish Registers now online but dates vary according to parish and not all existing registers were microfilmed/are online. The bad news is that you need to search by parish then scan through register.
http://www.nli.ie/en/parish-register.aspx
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I've had that problem for other Dillons already, I'll have a look though. Thanks for the advice.
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I had a quick look o some of the paid sites and no hits for a Robert DILLON marrying a Sarah on dates 1844 +/- 5 years unfortunately - that's not to say they're not out there and yet to be computerised
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Thanks for looking, I'll have to find another way to try and work out if Robert Dillon is linked to "my" Dillons.
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Hi where is the Robert Dillon you are looking for from. My grandfather was Robert Dillon as was his grandfather.. Both from Donegal ...
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Hi where is the Robert Dillon you are looking for from. My grandfather was Robert Dillon as was his grandfather.. Both from Donegal ...
Hi Dillcom,
Very interesting to hear from you, my Dillons lived in Manchester from the 1820s/30s but prior to that lived in Ireland, probably the Mayo/Galway area although I'm not 100% certain of that.
Were your Dillons in Manchester?
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Hi deer 243 my dillons didn't live in Manchester as far as I'm aware. They came from either France or australia and bought farms in Donegal Ireland