Hi Mags,
I do not have much luck like you have with your findings and all at the local level.
However, I am quite happy for you!!
Ah...pleased you are interested in whom I am looking for.
I think my family members liked to give us a bit of hit and miss game along the way.
Anyway, I am looking for my g grandmother named Margaret Lehane--I have several documents on her--the most important documents are her husband's naturalisation papers which gives her birth date as 15 September 1872 and 1900 US census on her gives her birth date as Sept 1877. I have applied to the GRO and kept getting no trace certificate on her!!
It took a visit to the National Archives in Dublin where a helpful lady found a John Lehane with the stated parentage that my g grandmother always listed on her certs. But no sign of her in the birth indexes.
I only found a Margaret Lehane in the birth indexes last month and it gives the date of her birth as 15 Sept 1864 and the parents were John Lehane and Mary Halliassey (sp?) as opposed to her stated parentage which was John Lehane and Johanna Quile (or Hannah Woods depending on the language used: Irish or English).
Her (half-)brother was born on 22 Dec 1871 in the same town/villiage/townland of Slievereagh, Co. Cork--just like the record on a possible Margaret Lehane above. It is very likely it was HER especially when it showed her birth date to be 15th September.
I know that her father died when she was about 6 years old. The problem is that the GRO could not trace her father's death--three times and still got the same result!
I know that Johanna Quile remarried to Jeremiah O'Connell sometimes after 1871 and had a boy born to them in 1879 according to the indexes.
I looked up and found the 1911 Census on O'Connell and the information fit with what we know of their deaths in same area as listed on this census. The bonus information is that they had a daughter named Nora. They were in Carringmaggy, Cahirbrane, Co. Cork.
I could not found her birth record BUT it looks very likely that she was John Lehane's daughter and Margaret's sister--she was recorded as Honora Lehane in Slievereagh--to the parents of John Lehane and Mary Halliassey.
That is why I need someone or a helping hand with verifying whether the parents actually died--if that was true, then I am spot on about my g grandmother's birth record despite the family lore saying that she only knew where and when she was born on/in.
Now you mentioned a high probability of mistranscription at the MHC. I am feeling a bit foolish for spending some money without checking with the Rootschatters first.
I just wanted to have a birth record on my g grandmother. I know it may be very difficult to trace her parents' marriage and deaths. I think I would never find them. She was a very beloved figure in my family and even after her death, everyone still talks about her and how funny she was, etc...
Thank you for your interest in my "problem."
Kind regards,
Tees
