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Travelling People / Re: Marriage of Owen MAUGHAN & Mary MCDONAGH
« on: Wednesday 13 March 19 17:16 GMT (UK)  »
There is a Church Marriage Record for Patrick Moghan and Mary McDonagh on rootsireland.ie, date 16 May 1882, at Cong, Co Mayo. It gives Patrick's parents names as Owen Moghan & Mary McDonagh. I can't find any other record of this marriage.

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Travelling People / Re: Patrick Maughan, Intinerant Tinsmith from Ballina, Co Mayo born about 1851
« on: Saturday 19 May 18 09:18 BST (UK)  »
They are in the 1901 census as MOHAN.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Cong/Glenlusk/1392611/

This is the link for the 1911 census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Loughil/Laughil/773088/

This is a very confusing family. I suspect Patrick's wife used two or three names: Margaret Mangan, Margaret McDonagh and Mary McDonagh. Of course, I could be muddling different families.

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Ireland / Re: Letter from GRO confirming a birth was not registered
« on: Friday 24 November 17 13:44 GMT (UK)  »
We have a certified copy of the baptism (made in 1946), so the date of birth (1897) is not really in doubt. I suppose it could be under another name, but I have checked all births matching either Christian name or surname, in 1987 and 1898.

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Ireland / Letter from GRO confirming a birth was not registered
« on: Friday 24 November 17 13:24 GMT (UK)  »
A family member wants to apply for Irish citizenship, to which she is entitled because her grandfather was born in Ireland. The difficulty is that her grandfather's birth appears not to have been registered. I read (in a recent copy of Irish Roots magazine) that she should get a letter from the Irish GRO confirming that the birth was not registered.

Does anyone have experience of obtaining such a letter?

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Sligo / Re: Looking for a marriage in Riverstown or Taunagh
« on: Friday 17 November 17 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Sinann on Friday 17 November 17 20:16 GMT (UK)
I can see the couple who married on the 11 May 1874
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1874/11237/8120316b.pdf
Bartholomew MCLoughlin and Bridget Clearkin
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633986#page/29/mode/1up
4th from the bottom
The next one seems to be dated 11th as well
Yes also married on the 11th but June not May Pat Leddin and Mary Kennett
Yes next one is the last couple on the Civil Reg page
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1874/11237/8120316.pdf

Your couple is missing.
I wondered if they could have been married in a neighbouring parish, and Riverstown was a copying error (clutching at straws here).

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Sligo / Re: Looking for a marriage in Riverstown or Taunagh
« on: Friday 17 November 17 20:25 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: dathai on Friday 17 November 17 19:50 GMT (UK)
might be worth noteing the birth of an Arthur McDonagh possible brother, son of Arthur McDonagh, Tin man and Margaret Sweeny born 1st April 1867.Corrick ?Longford.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1867/03483/2280384.pdf

or
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F533-329
Yes, I agree Bridget could be the daughter of Arthur McDonagh & Margaret Sweeny. But there were a few other Arthur's about so I can't be sure. That's one reason I want to find the Church register.

Arthur McDonagh and Margaret Sweeny were determined to have a son called Arthur. One was baptised in Offally in 1858, and another in Sligo in 1862. I assume they both died young, because a third Arthur was baptised (and registered) in Longford in 1867.

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Sligo / Looking for a marriage in Riverstown or Taunagh
« on: Friday 17 November 17 18:19 GMT (UK)  »
I found a civil registration marriage certificate on irishgenealogy.ie, but can't find the corresponding Church marriage.

The marriage of Michael Reilly and Bridget McDonagh took place on 12th May 1874, at the Roman Catholic Chapel of Riverstown, Registration District Sligo.

I searched for Riverstown on https://registers.nli.ie and found it was an alternative name for Taunagh. There is a marriage register for this parish, covering 1874, but it doesn't seem to contain the marriage I want.

I think I must be in the right area, because the priest's name on the civil reg. certificate is given as Owen Feeny, and several marriages on the Church register (which is in Latin) have priest's name Eugene Feeny.

Can anyone help me find the Church register? I have checked the indexes on findmypast and ancestry, but found nothing.

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London and Middlesex / Updated London Poor Law records on ancestry
« on: Saturday 13 August 16 21:35 BST (UK)  »
I noticed this morning that "London, England, Poor Law and Board of Guardian Records, 1430-1930" on ancestry has been updated.

I have found some good information in this record set in the past, so naturally I wanted to see what had been added, but I can't find any details anywhere. Can anyone help?

Looking through, the only new data I have found so far is in:
   Borough: Hackney
   Parish or Poor Law Union: Hackney
   Record Type: Register of Inmates
There are 8 new sections:
   1781-1807
   Register of inmates in the Workhouse, 1791-1807 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1887-1905 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1887-1931 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1899-1904 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1899-1926 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1904-1906 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1906-1910 

If anyone else has noticed anything new then please post details here. It is a huge collection, mostly unindexed, so very time-consuming to search.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Incorrect fathers names on marriage certificates
« on: Sunday 17 July 16 21:37 BST (UK)  »
My great grandfather (born 1857) had two younger brothers. Their father died in 1862. All three brothers married in the 1870's. They gave three different fathers' names, all wrong.

It took me a long time to piece the family together. I'm reasonably sure that it's correct now because I have some DNA matches on that line.

Their mother lived until 1900, and seems to have maintained contact with at least two of the brothers; I don't know why she didn't tell them their father's name.

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