Reading between the lines, from what I've heard from my father, it was quite a scandal in the family that Charlotte had gone off and married this Catholic lad from Co. Galway, I think she and the family had very little further contact.
On the 1911 census, it says that Charlotte Hopkins had three live births, of whom one is still living. The only children of Charlotte and Patrick I have found is John Joe and Bridget Jane (aka Delia, aka Gennie), who died young. Which makes me wonder, is this a mistake or did Charlotte have an illegitimate child before marriage? Is that why she was packed off to Tuam, away from the scandal? So I wondered if I could find her other child
before her marriage.
Well not as such. I did find another daughter of William and Charlotte, named Margaret, born in 1893, who only survived 8 months. It would not be the first time that grandparents of a child claimed them as their own! The odd thing about Margaret is that her birth wasn't registered until July 1894, a month after her death
. It seems suspicious but it may be that she was sickly from birth and her parents were so consumed by anxiety that they simply forgot. We'll probably never know.
Her birth:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1894/02251/1847185.pdfHer death:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1894/05968/4696491.pdfThen another thing struck me as odd. On her birth record, her mother's maiden name is McAlister, not Burns. This confused me a lot, especially as the townland, Anaverna, was the same and there were only 69 residents on the 1901 census, so a second William & Charlotte Logan living there seemed very unlikely.
The answer was simple, Charlotte, nee Burns, died in 1884...
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1884/06308/4808528.pdf...and William married again, this time to Charlotte McAlister, in 1888.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1888/10757/5923188.pdfSo I checked John Logan's 1889 birth record:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1889/02475/1919136.pdfAnd of course, his mother's maiden name is McAlister.
