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Great thank you. Is it possible that they never registered her birth? I'm not too hot on the rules back then. This is my husbands tree im researching - my side is very much irish and alot of them didn't register their children so i usually find the baptism records instead but thought in england it would incur a fine - not sure the reasons behind not registering.

Have had a look on GRO and cannot find a sullivan born to a MMN of Walsh that could match either of the daughters

Well thinking a bit wider,
Consider the father of the girls was not James SULLIVAN, but she and children assumed his name by census time

DENNY, BRIDGET  mms     CALLAGHAN 
GRO Reference: 1883  D Quarter 
 SAINT OLAVE SOUTHWARK  Volume 01D  Page 216

Sue

Definitely something I will consider that I didn't think of! Last time I couldn't find a marriage certificate it was that the woman was previously married and her married name was on the marriage cert rather than her maiden so not sure why this didn't occur to me!

I've even searched marriages in Ireland and to no avail! With such common names and many James Sullivan's marrying Bridget's at about the right time it's made it difficult -

Census details are 1891:
Name   Bridget Sullivan
Gender   Female
Age   31
Relationship   Wife
Birth Year   1860
Spouse   James Sullivan
Child   Bridget Sullivan; Magaret Sullivan
Birth Place   Ireland
Civil parish   Bermondsey
Residence Place   Bermondsey, London, England
Registration district   St Olave Southwark
Sub registration district   Leather Market

James Sullivan   31
Bridget Sullivan   31
Bridget Sullivan   8
Magaret Sullivan 6

1901
Name   Bridget Sullivan
Age   46
Estimated Birth Year   abt 1855
Relation to Head   Head
Gender   Female
Birth Place   Ireland
Civil parish   Southwark St George the Martyr
Ecclesiastical parish   St Paul Bermondsey
Town   London
County/Island   London
Country   England
Registration district   Southwark
Sub-registration district   Kent Road

Bridget Sullivan   46
Bridget Sullivan   19
Margaret Sullivan 16

This is one possible birth for Margaret.
 
SULLIVAN, MARGARET    mother's maiden surname    SULLIVAN 
GRO Reference: 1883  J Quarter in
SAINT OLAVE SOUTHWARK  Volume 01D  Page 230

Sue

Hi Sue, thanks for the reply! I'm pretty sure she was born 1885 so found this but for some reason doesn't give the whole surname -

SULLIVAN, MARGARET        CA...     
GRO Reference: 1885  M Quarter in SAINT OLAVE SOUTHWARK  Volume 01D  Page 290

I found her on the 1911 census with her second husband Hughie Wallis and her daughter Lillie Wallis - on the census is also a George Wallis who is 5 years old so that will be George James Mead - theyve given him his stepdads surname although throughout his life his went by Mead.

That solves the other part of the mystery.

Katie x