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Antrim / Re: Downey/O'Neill/Kearney
« on: Wednesday 09 March 16 07:06 GMT (UK) »Robert Downey and family in 1911 census-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Pottinger__part_of_/Hornby_Street/221527
Wife Gertrude Ann born Belfast (not Co.Derry), married 36 years (c1875) with 12 children but only 7 living children.
I haven't found the marriage yet either but did find daughter Ellen's birth registration-
Ellen Downey, 24 Jan.1889 Belfast (mother- Faulkner)
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Hello All. Re Gertrude Annie FAULKNER. (my great grandmother)
I have a copy of the 1911 Census with my uncle's handwriting crossing out the 36 years married and changed to 26 years. (Gertrude was his grandmother) He also has penciled a note at the bottom, that they "eloped to marry". Considering her husband Robert was from a Catholic family and she a Protestant, this makes this eloped option quite possible. Where they went to get married of course is the question, she was born in Desertlyn in County Derry, but they probably went further afield - maybe the Registry Office in Belfast ?? I have no record or notation from my late uncle's vast genealogical notes in regards to this marriage.