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Hi, Shaun! Ah, it's alright thank you, we've found the boy's baptism and everything. But I would be curious, do you know if barracks kept records of who was stationed there/when? Or would that sort of info only been in censuses and such?

Hi there, everyone. I have an ancestor who had a baby out of wedlock with a soldier in the 1850s. We believe she worked in some capacity for the barracks nearby to where she was from (this was in Ireland), hence her coming into contact with said soldier. Part of the regiment he was with was stationed there in her town, but the baby wasn't born until a few years later, after the regiment had already moved a few places. The soldier in question later went to India the same year the baby was born, and seems to never had any contact with her again.

I was wondering if A. she was perhaps employed by someone in the regiment, hence her travelling long enough to fall pregnant by one of the men (and what possible occupations there were at this time, if camp followers were still a common profession by the mid 1800s), or B. were all the soldiers who belonged to the regiment always with the regiment? Or is it possible this fellow remained stationed in the same area for several years?

Thanks in advance.

Thank you both so much! Were middle names really much in use in Ireland at this point of time? And was it usual for people to go by names other than their birth names?

An aside, it seems Susan has two different ages in the census of 1901 and 1911, one putting her birth in 1863 and the other in 1868.

Hello everyone. I'm looking for a baptism that would have happened in November 1862 or '63, in Creen, Belturbet. My x2 great grandmother was named Susan McCaffrey. But on her marriage certificate, she goes by Mary McCaffrey, and years later, on the deed of the house she and her husband had lived in most of her life, she seems to go by Ellen, Ellen Blyth. Her parents were James McCaffrey and Mary Fitzpatrick. I'd like to see what her legal, or Christian name, or however you'd like to call it, was. I know almost none of her grandchildren went by their official names.

Thanks in advance