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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 08 July 17 02:56 BST (UK) »
Hi dathai
Wrote a reply earlier but site crashed & I lost it, so here I go again.
Mary Ellen would have been 17 in March 1918 but probably pushed her age up a fraction for the marriage.
The witness Kittey Devlin may be her aunt Mary Kate Devlin, from whom my wife's family descends.
Maybe this is evidence that Lilian = Mary Ellen.
Are you related to this line?

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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 08 July 17 08:13 BST (UK) »
Hi
    I am not related just a researcher.

Kittey Devlin is most likely Patrick's daughter Katie age 9 on 1911 census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Queenstown/The_Mall/405152/

her birth 1902 as Catherine
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1902/01884/1732772.pdf

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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 08 July 17 08:56 BST (UK) »
Wouldn't she have been too young (16) to be a witness at a wedding?

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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 08 July 17 09:41 BST (UK) »
A totally different era,a bride could be as young as 15 in those day's with parental consent so why not a witness and who's to say her age was questioned by the priest.


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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 08 July 17 11:56 BST (UK) »
Why do you think a sister more likely than an aunt?

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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 08 July 17 13:02 BST (UK) »
Because Catherine is more likely to be called Kitty.

however she appears to have married a Royal Marine by the name of Edward Moat 1921
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1921/09237/5343061.pdf

possibly this man
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7827640

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9FJ-CQ7

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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 11 July 17 07:33 BST (UK) »
Thanks

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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 30 July 17 07:10 BST (UK) »
I have a record of birth/baptism of Francis Devlin in May/June 1859. After the parents are listed two people Pat Quinn and Hannah Power. Would it be correct to assume these are witnesses to the birth registration or godparents at a baptism? Nothing at the top of the page to tell me.

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Re: Devlins in Cobh (Queenstown), Cork, 1800s
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 30 July 17 07:38 BST (UK) »
No birth registrations until 1864 so it's a baptism so they are godparents/sponsors.
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632671#page/76/mode/1up
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http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kh4/