Owen MCCabe and Mary Wholahan

[warrawillah]

Hi
I am new to this list and researching for a friend of mine. She is descended from Owen MCCabe, a coachman, and his wife Mary WHOLAHAN who lived in Brown Street Carlow, Co. Carlow. Her line of descent is through their son Joseph MCCabe born in 1836.

He was supposedly the 10th son of a family of 10 sons and 2 daughters. So far, the following have been traced: Mary 1821, Edward 1827, Owen 1830, James 1831, Anna 1833, Lawrence 1834 and Joseph 1836.

Apparently the Catholic church was also in Brown street at that time. Could somone please tell me what it was called?

Joseph MCCabe married Elizabeth Woods 1879 in Colchester, ESSEX. He had enlisted in the army, 108th Foot Soldiers in 1860, served in India and was discharged from the army in 1880.

I am looking for any details of Owen and his wife Mary or any other info on this family.
Thank you for your interest.
Marie in Sydney, Australia

[shanew147]

The RC Cathedral is located on College Street and very close to Brown street - see the OSI map for the area : Brown St/College St - Carlow town  See the 25" 1890s map for the best view of the layout.

It's named as St. Mary's on the older maps , the current name seems to be the Cathedral of the Assumption.

Records for the parish go back to the 1770s - see RC Parish of Carlow  (Irish Times)

Some records for Co. Carlow are included on the website at www.irishgenealogy.ie , but they only have Church of Ireland details at the moment. It might be worth keeping an eye out for any updates to see if they add Carlow RC records.

see :  Introduction to Irish Records


Shane