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My mother has told me that as a child she was told by her maternal grandmother about a nun in the family, but it isn't one that I have as yet been able to find. An Irish Catholic with the surname McGarry.  I contacted the Catholic FHS and there does seem to be several likely candidates, but need more information first.

My mother has a photograph of the nun, passed down to my mothers Aunt, and after her death given to my mother when her uncle was sorting out his wife's belongings. So I am hoping  for your helping in trying to extract information from the photo that might help me narrow my search. Is it possible to tell what order she belonged to, or maybe an approximate date?

thanks

I am tracing back the Cogan branch of my family and so far have it back to James Cogan b. about 1826. He is down on various census  as born in Dublin. I have just recently confirmed his marriage in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and purchased a copy the 1848 Marriage certificate (married St Albans Catholic Chapel), though surnames are spelt Coogan. His father is Thomas Coogan a Yeoman.

There are a few James Cogan's born around then, but can't see one with Father named Thomas. If his father was a Yeoman, maybe there's a tenancy agreement (not looked into that yet)

I am trying to find the marriage of James Cogan and his wife Anne that most likely takes place around 1850 in Macclesfield. James ogan was born abt 1826 in Dublin, Ireland but his wife Anne was born in Macclesfield abt 1828.

Their first son, John Cogan, was born in Macclesfield in 1852, and so I am surmising that its likely they married in Macclesfield, but so far have been unable to find it.

I have most of their lives after this time which may give a better picture. James Cogan was a Cabinet Maker and James and Anne moved to Staffordshire (their 3rd and 4th children baptised in Hanley in 1856 and 1858) and he was listed as Furniture Dealer in the 1860 Post Office Directory, though Cabinet Maker in 1861 Census. He moved to Leeds by the time of his 6th child where he lived for the rest of his life, living in Merrion Street and having actors and actresses board with them. Sadly after he died in 1898 his wife Anne ends up in Leeds Union workhouse.

I haven't found them in 1851 census, but that might be if their records haven't survived. so wondering where to look for marriages (nothing on BMD/ancestry/FindMyPast that seems right) or where to go for electoral registers.

Currently looking at 17C/18C Shropshire registers. There seems to be more than one family of "Chilton's" based in around then. In the combined parish register of Little Wenlock some of the entries describe the person as coming from the Spout. Would this be somewhere that is now Spout Lane, or is there another meaning of "of the Spout"

e.g.
1742 - Rowland Chilton of the Spout was buried
1747 - John son of John and Mary Chilton of y Spout was bapt {privately march 16 publicly April 11}
1749 - Mary daughter of John and Mary Chilton (of y Spout) was bapt

I am wondering what other sources, apart from BMD & Registers can be used for people from 18thC Shropshire? (My query is at the end, but first some background)

I have subs to ancestry & FindMyPast so things like page scans of shropshire registers are great source.

I have got my tree to Peter Chilton & Mary Cadman marrying in 1772 in Little Wenlock, and surmising that the correct Peter Chilton is the one born in 1749 in Little Wenlock (still to find the correct Mary of proper age yet ), whose parents are John & Mary.

I believe this is John Chilton and Mary Garbet, because the witnesses at Peter & Mary's wedding were Richard Chilton & Thomas Garbet. The problem has been in looking for the siblings of Peter (1749). Peter was baptised Aug 1749, however on the same page there is a "Mary daughter of John Chilton and his wife Mary" baptised December 1749. So its probably safe to say that in Little Wenlock at that time there were two John & Mary Chilton.

So what other sources do people use to try and confirm who belongs to whom in such cases?