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Cavan / Re: McCall - Smith
« on: Tuesday 17 February 15 14:03 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: maduganme on Tuesday 17 February 15 00:38 GMT (UK)
I have come to a dead end with this one, Owen McCall and Margaret Smith are listed as his parents on my GGF (John McCall) death cert, but have been unable to find anything on them. No marriage or death cert. I have been unable to find any other children born to this couple apart from my GGF.My GGF's place of residence on his marriage cert is listed as Kildrum.  Will I just give up or is there somewhere else I could look? Any help would be appreciated. My GGF was married in the RC church but I don't know if his parents were RC or not.

Have you tried the spelling 'McCaul'? The two were used interchangeably in Cavan for quite some time. Also try John for Owen.

As others have said, there is no townland called Kildrum in Co. Cavan, however McCall and Smith are very common names up there. What other info do you have so far on these McCalls and Smiths, and do you have any source for 'Kildrum' other than the marriage cert? Is the handwriting difficult to decipher? It's also possible he was living elsewhere at the time of marriage, having gone to a different county to find work.

In what year and to whom was your GGF's marriage? If you give a little more info I might be able to help, I have plenty of McCauls and Smiths in Cavan on my tree (not direct ancestors but by marriage) so there might be some connection.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers
« on: Sunday 15 February 15 17:28 GMT (UK)  »
Ellen Sanfey b.1879 Oylegate, Co. Wexford; d.1955 Oylegate, Co. Wexford

Annie Doyle b.1901 Rathmore, Kilscoran, Co. Wexford; d.1974 Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Ann McCahey b.1875 Drumbrone, Drumcarrow, Co. Monaghan; d.1930 Greaghlone, Drumcarrow, Co. Monaghan

Alice McKenna (in my profile picture) b.1877 Ballymacolgan, Drumconrath, Co. Meath; d.1967 Lisagoan, Kingscourt, Co. Cavan

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Ireland Resources / Re: Early Irish Marriage Index
« on: Friday 13 February 15 22:12 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much for posting this link. I'd never come across this website before, and I found a marriage record for ancestors of mine (Garret and Rose Sutton), which has given me a surname for Rose! :)

I'm wondering if there's any way to search by both surname and first name, or plans to add such a function at some point in the future? It's great for rare surnames, but a bit impossible to use for more common surnames such as Murphy.

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Ireland / Re: Records Pre 1820
« on: Friday 13 February 15 21:49 GMT (UK)  »
The most useful resource I've found for the time period before 1820 is without a doubt Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead - of course, how useful this will be to you depends on where in Ireland you're looking for people.

Some parishes do have baptism/marriage records going back that far, but I assume you've already tried that avenue. Whereabouts in Ireland are your ancestors from?

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Scotland / Re: Marrying your dead wife's sister
« on: Friday 13 February 15 15:17 GMT (UK)  »
Widowed men often *had* to remarry if they wanted to keep their children, as it wasn't acceptable back in the day for a man to raise children on his own. It needed to be done quickly, so a maiden sister-in-law would be a pretty convenient choice.

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Wexford / Re: Kavanagh's Wexford pre 1850s
« on: Friday 13 February 15 01:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I've nothing to add on those specific people, but Our Lady's Island has very old and detailed parish records (in the possession of the parish priest Father Nolan), so if you can get a look at those it should help enormously. Also bear in mind that the parishes of Our Lady's Island and Tacumshane started off as separate parishes and then merged but then unmerged so some records for Lady's Island are actually listed under Tacumshane.

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The Lighter Side / Re: skeletons
« on: Friday 13 February 15 00:46 GMT (UK)  »
Two of my great-grandparents were illegitimate, and one of my great-great-great-grandfathers was a bigamist. However, the biggest shock of all to my staunchly Catholic family was that we have very, very distant Protestant ancestors. The horror!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Eight Trees Gt Gt Grandparents
« on: Friday 13 February 15 00:37 GMT (UK)  »
Here are mine:

<b>Paternal</b>
Edward (Ned) BRIEN (1844-1918) and Catherine (Kate) McCORMACK (1846-c.1923), both from Oylegate, Co. Wexford
Francis (Frank) SANPHY (c.1840-1898) Ellen MURPHY (1841-1928), Ellen was from Oylegate, Co. Wexford, Frank was from Kilkenny
Nicholas (Nick) MORAN (1888-c.1947) and Ellen Susan MURPHY (1879-1966), both from Tacumshane, Co. Wexford - they were not married to each other but had two children together.
Thomas (Tommy) DOYLE (1865-1939) and Ellen FURLONG (1865-1942), both from Our Lady's Island, Co. Wexford

<b>Maternal</b>
Michael BYRNE (c.1846-1908) and Anne McCABE, both from Greaghlone, Co. Monaghan
Peter McCAHEY (c.1845-1919) and Elizabeth (Bessie) CRAWLEY (c.1850-1914), both from Drumbrone, Co. Monaghan
Patrick (Pat) REILLY (1939-c.1900) and Judith (Julia) CONNOLLY (1840-1898), both from Lisaogan, Co. Cavan
Francis (Frank) McKENNA (1862-1914) and Anne DUFF (1859-c.1932), both from Drumconrath, Co. Meath (they were not married and were 14 and 17 respectively when their daughter was born)

I am also fortunate enough to have found all thirty-two of my great-great-great-grandparents.

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The Common Room / Re: errors on trees
« on: Friday 13 February 15 00:07 GMT (UK)  »
I ended up taking my (very well-researched) family tree off ancestry.com because random people kept assuming that my John Doyle or Mary Burns or other such commonly-named person was theirs and copying my information and photographs and records and everything into their tree, attaching them to *completely* the wrong person. Sloppy genealogy makes me very angry.

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