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hey everyone
needing a bit of help Robert John McMath and Ellen Laverty or lavery are my great grandparents, i have a lot of information on Robert hes not the problem :)
Ellen or Nellie on the other hand is, i have no idea what year she was born or where she was born in northern Ireland but i do know she died in 1979 again not sure where but my papa and his siblings where brought up in maghera, most of the family live round that area now
I know its not much to go on but if anyone could please help me find anything on her and her family it would be very much appreciated, thank you
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Robert McMath married Ellen Lafferty on 23rd September 1926 in Magherafelt R.D.
https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/
The marriage record is available via GRONI online at the above link, and choosing the "full" option (5 credits £2.50) lets you see the digitised image of the original. You need to register on GRONI (free), then purchase a few credits to do full searches, view certificates etc.
KG
Edited to add:
When you purchase and receive the marriage record, if you post the names of their fathers, then we can do a bit more digging! :)
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hey, its not letting me into the webite, but i got someone else to check it and its not coming up for them, would anywhere else have it?
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It's coming up OK for me.
https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/
GRONI is the only repository for birth, death and marriage records in what is now Northern Ireland, from 1.1.1922 onwards. (Ancestry, FindMyPast and other websites don’t have them).
Northern Ireland historic registration records are available to search online, with the records available being:
• birth records over 100 years old
• marriage records over 75 years old
• death records (including World War II death records) over 50 years old
Contact details for ringing or e-mailing GRONI:
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/contacts-az/general-register-office-northern-ireland
Note the search room is currently closed due to COVID-19.
KG
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There was a birth of a Nellie Lafferty, Magherafelt, 1898, daughter of John Lafferty & Nancy Crilly
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1898/02077/1792925.pdf
1901 census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Swatragh/Upperlands/1545891/
1911 census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Swatragh/Tirgarvil/611927/
Robert John in 1901 Census?
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Swatragh/Corlacky/1545520/
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Alternatively Robert McMath born 1894 at Curragh, Maghera.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1894/02265/1851446.pdf
https://www.townlands.ie/londonderry/loughinsholin/maghera/curragh/
KG
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...or maybe this one in 1886 at Gortereighy (sic).
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02584/1954996.pdf
https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/kilconway/rasharkin/gortereghy/
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I think that is Robert R McMath. in 1901 census. Can't make out his 2nd name on the birth.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Kilrea/Coleraine_Street/1521070/
And he is presbyterian
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Yes. I think the 2nd Robert John in 1886 is him.