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Hi all. It's a while since this thread was stared but we live in hope ...
I'm researching my Herward/Hereward Galway ancestors and wondered if anyone has had a DNA test?
My kit# A401145 please feel free to contact me.
Regards Patzy

Oh my word so I was wrong to presume that Fennor was a COI graveyard mawhtton37?
Regards Patzy.

Hi again Rachael, Blimey this is fab news for me & a cousin out in France called Jo - she will be very happy to hear of you! Our Grandparents were siblings meaning we are cousins 
 
My Mother Molly was 3yrs old when her Dad John died, the family ALSO moved to Yorkshire and John was injured in a pit fall at South Kirby. He later died of his injuries in Clayton hospital.
Can I ask if you have had any luck with Thomas? I've searched the recently released nli.ie records for both his birth and a possible marriage but with no results .. all I know is he was born in Clifden Galway and Ellen was born Fairhill Galway.

Lovely to meet you 

Hey China 
I think you may have something there.... My family who vaguely remember him tell me its a nickname and his real name could have been PATRICK CALLAGHAN but I cant find a birth for Patrick so I thought Id post.
When I first found out about Sarcy c1918 I sensed resentment as he was born while out of wedlock. Im told Sarcy ran away as a young boy and no-one has heard or seen of him since.
Thanks Patzy

Hi dathai and thank you for your help & reply, I really am hoping to unravel this mess.

Also leaving the conflict with the fathers name out of it how did you come across the mother's name as Bridget Armstrong.

When I first started my search some years back my family over in Ireland (Im in the UK) told me that my GGGrandmother was Bridget Armstrong.
 

I presume you have his marriage cert to Margaret Nolan 1900
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYCB-4NY
if you have this does it give his father as John.
He seems to differ by 9 years as to age on the census
1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kilkenny/Urlingford/New_Road/1456832/
1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kilkenny/Urlingford/Urlingford_Town/533297/

i dont see any point in getting John or Catherine's birth cert as you can see their parents names on the above Birth's and Baptism's,the only extra info would be their address.

So today I dug out my paperwork and yes I have the marriage of James Callaghan & Margaret Nolan.
James`s parents are named as John Callaghan & Bridget Armstrong.

As for James on the 1901/11 census I cant help thinking what looks like a 1 is actually 7 making his year of birth again c1873, what do you think?

If Bridget was genuinely in her eighties in 1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kilkenny/Urlingford/New_Road/1456841/

she would have been in her fifties in the 1870s not impossible to have given birth to James at that age but highly unlikely.

Bridgets age is a pain in the butt, I doubt I`ll ever get to the bottom of it lol.

Kate Callaghan married Michael Taylor in 1893
http://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/f4eead10252311
have you got this marriage cert to compare fathers names.

Unfortunately I dont have the marriage cert for Katy`s marriage but according to the ifhf her father is Michael not John! Im beginning to wonder if Bridget was married to Michael who may have passed away then took up with John.

last but not least when did he join up could there have been any sort of age restrictions involved causing him to say he was a lot younger so he could join up.

I have James`s records printed off and when he rejoined the British Army in August 1914 it states he was 41yrs and 60 days old. His previous records I cant find as yet but I have his prison records from 1896 when he was jailed, states he was 23. And of course his headstone which gives his age at death as 74 in 1947.

Maybe I will have to wait like many others until 8th July before I get some if any answers when the NLI make parish records digital!!!

Regards Patzy