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My 3 x g grandfather appears in the 1901 Census at the age of 77, living in Ballynakilly Upper, Glanbehy, Kerry with his wife, Ellen, aged 67 and son, Maurice, 29. By 1911, Ellen and her son, Maurice are living at the same address (different spelling - Ballynakelly) and Ellen is a widow.

Maurice's year of birth, 1826, is derived from the 1901 census, so may be out.

Despite many searches and name spellings, I can't find a likely candidate for Maurice's death. I would be appreciative if someone can do a quick search to confirm he is not there and I will just have to consider his death unregistered.

Thanks.

Hi Sinann,
It was via ThruLines. 
The spellings for Hanora are all the same and then reviewing the relationships that previously had 'half', none of them says it today.  I know I didn't imagine it!

So now I'm confused by ThruLines, not by my Spillanes and at least I have confirmed Peter's mum was Hanora and not Mary.

Ah...some days.

Thanks for your time.

Hello all,
My Spillane line is causing me a few headaches, which is not unusual.

My 2 x great grandfather, Peter Spillane, 1846-1927 has a baptism entry on irishgeneaology with his parents as John Spillane and Mary Sullivan.  Subsequent children have the mother of Hanora Sullivan, John is shown as marrying Hanora  Sullivan in February 1845.  I also have the extract from the 1851 census with Norah (Hanora) as the mother.

I figured it was an anomaly that Peter's mother was Mary, as names in my family can be interchanged with middle names and diminutives.

Then, following up on some DNA matches, Peter's younger brother, Patrick, comes up as my half 2 x great grand uncle. So now I  am back to whether Peter did have a different mother, even though he was born after the marriage to Hanora and grew up with her as his mother.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for your help, Annie and Debra.  Sorry about not putting the name/reference.  Initially, I had uploaded the relevant snip but realised that didn't show the registrar's details, so I put the link, not thinking to then add Hannah's name.