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Please could anyone help me find my grandmother’s birth and marriage certificates, she was born in Ennystmon in 1787, her name was Bridget Mary Josephine Sexton, she married my grandfather James William Higham of the Royal Yorkshire Regiment on 24/11/1897 according to his paybook. He was based at the Curragh Army Camp at the time of their marriage.
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This maybe a long shot in the 1841/51 census for Clondagad, Clare there is a Bridget Sexton with 5 siblings and father John Sexton and possible mother Anne Sexton.
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If her birth was 1787 she could'nt have married in 1897.
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Found their marriage.
24th. November 1897. Roman Catholic Chapel, Curragh Camp.
Bridget Sexton. spinster, full age, servant. father John Sexton.
James William Higham . batchelor, full age, soldier. father Emanuel Higham.
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1877 maybe ???? That would make her 20.
Carol
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This could be her....
Bridget Sexton. baptised 09 Jun 1870, Cragaknock, Co. Clare. father John Sexton, (farmer), mother Anne Marinan.
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Certificates are available to down load at https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/
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Marriage of John Sexton, b1844 and Anne Marinan, b 1849.
29 Apr 1868, Ennistymon, Clare.
John's father Daniel Sexton.
Anne' father Thomas Marinan
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James William Higham. baptised 02 Apr 1872, Nether Heyford, Northampton. father Emanuel. mother Mary.
Emanuel Higham married Mary Reeve. 26 Jan 1865 Heyford, Northamptonshire.
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Thank you for your help, I missed typed her year of birth it was 1878. I have the details of my grandfather William James Higham but not my grandmother, until she appears in his army paybook for the marriage at the Curragh on 24/11/1897. His next posting was Gibraltar where my mother their first child was born on 8/12/1898. I also have information about her from English 1911 census, by which time she was a widow, aged 29 working as a handsower for the Army in London. My grandfather died suddenly in 1907. She states on the census that her place of birth was Ennistymon. I have been searching family history for several years now trying to trace her birth and marriage certificates. I never knew her as died of cancer five years before I was born.
Many years ago, when I was about 12 my parents took me to Southern Ireland for a holiday. We went to Ennistymon and asked about my grandmother’s family, but Unfortunately non of us wrote down the infirmation we were given, we did find that my mother had a cousin living in Limerick, she was married to a policeman, they had a son and a daughter. We actually found them, but I cannot find their address now, but This was in the 1950’s.
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Hi, The marriage is correct and I'm pretty sure Bridget's birth is correct as it is an original record. John and Anne's marriage was in Ennistymon but Bridget's baptism was in Cragaknock, she may have been born in Ennistymon. Anne Marinan was born 1829 and died in 1913 Kilrush. looks like Bridget had a brothers and sisters.... Daniel Sexton, b 27 Feb 1869, Kilrush
Thomas Sexton, b 28 Mar 1873, Kilrush
Anne Sexton, b 07 Nov 1874, Kilrush
Joseph Sexton, b 20 Mar 1878, Kilrush
Mary Sexton, b 08 Aug 1876, Kilrush
There could be more but the web site crashed, I'll look again later.
Added. I think that is all.
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Thank you for your help. I will try to find the link to purchase the certificates. You have taken me further in two days than I’ve managed in the last two years. I have a letter from my mother’s cousin who lived in Limerick, but the address is rather faded, in fact I have a lot of letters from Grandfather to my Grandmother when she was staying in Heyford in Northamptonshire with my mother and her father in law and he was in S.Africa in the Boer War.
My grandmother after she was widowed and living in London joined the suffragettes, but because she had two daughters dependent on her she never took actions that may have caused her to be arrested.
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Birth Certs are free and online
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp
birth registration started 1864
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Hi, I think there maybe more children of John and Anne as there are a few gaps in the birth years, I'm surprised that there is not a John. I will have another look. Have sent you a PM.
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Just found another daughter of John and Anne...
Catherine Sexton. 02 July 1871. Kilrush.
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Thank you all for the help with tracing my maternal grandparent’s marriage cerificate. In the district of NAAS, at Curragh Army Camp, this confirms her father was John Sexton on 24/11/1897.
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Thank you for your help, I missed typed her year of birth it was 1878. I have the details of my grandfather William James Higham but not my grandmother, until she appears in his army paybook for the marriage at the Curragh on 24/11/1897. His next posting was Gibraltar where my mother their first child was born on 8/12/1898. I also have information about her from English 1911 census, by which time she was a widow, aged 29 working as a handsower for the Army in London. My grandfather died suddenly in 1907. She states on the census that her place of birth was Ennistymon. I have been searching family history for several years now trying to trace her birth and marriage certificates. I never knew her as died of cancer five years before I was born.
Many years ago, when I was about 12 my parents took me to Southern Ireland for a holiday. We went to Ennistymon and asked about my grandmother’s family, but Unfortunately non of us wrote down the infirmation we were given, we did find that my mother had a cousin living in Limerick, she was married to a policeman, they had a son and a daughter. We actually found them, but I cannot find their address now, but This was in the 1950’s.
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Thank you for your help. I will try to find the link to purchase the certificates. You have taken me further in two days than I’ve managed in the last two years. I have a letter from my mother’s cousin who lived in Limerick, but the address is rather faded, in fact I have a lot of letters from Grandfather to my Grandmother when she was staying in Heyford in Northamptonshire with my mother and her father in law and he was in S.Africa in the Boer War.
My grandmother after she was widowed and living in London joined the suffragettes, but because she had two daughters dependent on her she never took actions that may have caused her to be arrested.
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Birth Certs are free and online
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp
birth registration started 1864