- mary finnegan- micheal gartland

[cheryl gartland]

im searching for information on mary finnegan,born 1874 in balbriggan ireland,she married micheal gartland
(Micheal was born 1873 in flimby cumberland,)
ive found cencus's showing info when she moved to cumberland but nothing at all about her parents and family from ireland

xcx

[shanew147]

Do you have a marriage cert for Mary & Michael ?

see : Introduction to Irish Records
        My Ancestor came from Ireland - where do I start?



Shane

[cheryl gartland]

thank you

all i have is that mary finnegan was from balbriggan and she lived in cumberland with her husband micheal gartland, ive searched the 1901/1911 cencus's but only found one mary finegan who cant have been a match as she was already living in cumberland at the time

xcx

[cheryl gartland]

on the cencis forms, would they have had their full names, ie first name and middle?
ive found a catherine mary finnegan but if they had to write full name it cant be her

xcx

[shanew147]

Finnegan is quite a common surname, so I think I'd follow up on the marriage to find out about Mary's father first, otherwise you could end up following the wrong Finnegan family.

There are a few births on the BMD Index around the right time for that surname in the Registration District which covers Balbriggan - including a Mary Finigan in 1876... but I'd look for more clues from the marriage cert before following this up :

   Finnegan births, Balrothery District 1872 to 1876


Shane

[shanew147]

a possible marriage for Michael and Mary ?

  Quarter / Year : Jun 1893
  Registration District :  Dudley
  Volume : 6c
  Page : 175
  Mary Finnigan           
  Michael Gartland            
  William Punter        
  Alice Maude Wolverson   

Dudley registration district covers parts of Staffordshire and Worcestershire. Not that close to Cumberland, but maybe they moved after they married ?


Shane

[cheryl gartland]

That could be them ! Thank you so much !!!
Micheal was born in flimby maryport cumberland but could have worked away where he met mary, then brought her back here, 

Xcx

[cheryl gartland]

Would william and alice have been the whitnesses? Xcx

[shanew147]

Would william and alice have been the whitnesses? Xcx

you would need to order a marriage cert to check the full details, like date and place of marriage, current residences, father's names, occupations  and also confirm that match - it's not guaranteed. All that index shows is that the those 4 names appear on the same register page.

You can use the references I posted to order a cert from the GRO - see :

   GRO England & Wales, Certificate ordering service



Shane