Two brothers with identical given name?

[heywood]

These are baptisms I can see for Arthur Fegan and Catherine McClory

Annaghlone
Patrick 1842
James 1844
Mary 1845

Liverpool
Henry 1852
Terence 1854

Kilcoo
Hugh 1855
Mary 1856
Cath 1857
Sarah Ann 1856
Felix 1861

1871 has a Thomas and Arthur who are not in this list

[NicolaasMars]

Thank you very much for all your help!

Nicolaas

[heywood]

There are some marriages for some of these if you want them. I can post later.

[NicolaasMars]

These marriages are certainly of interest to me. Thank you.

Nicolaas

[heywood]

Arthur in 1871 is 45 yrs and in 1881 is 55 yrs. Catherine is 5 yrs older. As we know, ages are not often correct and the older children's births would make the parents very young at the time.

I am not sure about all these marriages but will post them for reference

St Patrick, Liverpool

18 Dec 1864   
James Fagan and Jane Mccann   Parents Arthur and Cath
4Jan 1864
 John Fagan and Alice Mcmahan    Parents Arthur and Catherine
25 Jan 1864
Patrick Fagan and Mary McHugh parents Arthur and Catherine

These all have Croston Street as their address.

[heywood]

St Vincent de Paul Liverpool

8 July 1872
Arthur Fagan and Elizabeth Downes -- Father Arthur. -  address is Worthington St

21 Oct 1872   
Thomas Fagan and Anne Foley   Father Arthur Fagan   address is 13 Dwerryhouse St (Terence gave 15 Dwerryhouse St as his address) Anne Foley and witnesses lived Worthington St

17 Aug 1875   
Henry Fagan and Mary Ann Kenny Father Arthur. Henry at 13 Dwerryhouse Street

1 Feb 1876   
Hugh Fagan and Elizabeth Fagan Father Athur  Hugh is at Croston Street
Sara Anna Fagan
2 Jun 1879   
Sarah Ann Fagan and John Moore Father Arthur Fagan   

St Patrick's

29 Jan 1889   
Patrick Fagan and Mary Ann McCann  Father Arthur Fagan   

5 Mar 1889   
Terence Fagan and Rosanna Cain - you have these details

As you can see there are two marriages for Patrick or two Patricks and therefore perhaps two families There is no indication that the second is a widower.
All these marriages are Fagan and not Fegan- you would best check the censuses too.

[NicolaasMars]

Thank you, Heywood,

I will need some time (which I do not have today) to process all this useful information.

Nicolaas

[heywood]

I agree! You could check out censuses to see if anything comes up.
I did see and I can't now remember which of the older ones it was but 'Down' was a birthplace at one time.
However, as Fegan/Fagan seems likely to be a name from that area, it may mean nothing.
I don't think that marriages are available in those parishes tor the right time for a Fegan/mcClory marriage.
Griffiths Valuation http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/down/kilcoo.htm shows an Arthur Fagan in Letalia townland which is the residence show on the Kilcoo baptisms.

[NicolaasMars]

Hi Heywood,

Could I ask you one more favour which would help me in unraveling the Fagan-story?

I would very much like to know the baptism dates and churches of Terence Fegan, born in the first quarter of 1854, and of Henry Fegan, born in the second quarter of 1852, to the parents Arthur Fegan and Catherine McClory.

Thank you very much!

Nicolaas