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Hi all this site has already been fantastic and helped me break down some brick walls which have stumped me for months and I was wondering if anyone could help me again

My Irish ancestry has been so incredibly hard to crack, finally thought I was making head way but now I've come stuck again and was just wondering if anyone could advise me as to what to try next to try and get my research going again? Thank you

My great-grandfather was Dennis Treacy born 1st February 1897 in Tyrrells pass Mullingar Westmeath (according to his birth record, his father was Martin Treacy and his mother was Catherine McCormack

I have found the family on the 1901 and 1911 Irish census but nothing before that, I believe I'm right in believing that there no surviving census records before that until 1851, Martin is 50 on the 1901 census so possible he could just had been born around the 1851 ones but with no info on parents I don't know what I'm looking for

If anyone could point in the direction on the best place to look for info which could get me progressing that would be great

Thank you   

Molly/Mollie can be both a feminine given name and a pet-name for Mary or Margaret.

I saw that marriage certificate also and wondered if it was your Margaret

I had heard that about Molly being a variant of Margaret which is why I looked at it in the first place, and everything else matches so I'm leaning more and more to believing this is the correct marriage certificate

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According to her death certificate she was born 1st December 1900 in Scotland
She died 13th July 1983 in Wandsworth

Who registered her death, was it a family member who was 100% sure of where she was born?

Her daughter registered her death so I would assume she would be sure but I suppose how much she accurately knew could be anyones guess

Hi all I discovered a branch of my family tree was Scottish and thanks to Scotlands people my research is coming along nicely.

Then when doing some research on a Irish branch of my family which I was already struggling with, I was told that my great grandmother died whilst staying over here in England, which made it alot easier for me to find her death certificate and the first information about her I had come across except for her name.

I was shocked that she wasn't born in Ireland like I had expected but she was born in Scotland but I am struggling to find any further information on her or her family to take my research any further and wondered if anyone could help?

Her name was Margaret Callaghan (or O'Callaghan according to my grandfathers baptism record)
She married my great grandfather Denis Tracey/Treacy (spelling differs)
According to her death certificate she was born 1st December 1900 in Scotland
She died 13th July 1983 in Wandsworth

not to worry, I've found them buried at Teddington (www.richmond.gov.uk)

http://www2.richmond.gov.uk/lbrburials/(S(31oz3airgzn1wsqqezeasndi))/DeceasedDetails.aspx?t=dec&id=252559

Blimey you are amazing thank you so much