Careys of Rathkeale 1880s

[T4Tim]

Locating my grandfather in Dublin took about an hour via 1901 census and I can street view the very door, behind which, he was born.

His wife, my grandmother has been a challenge:

Helena Mary Claire Carey
Born Nov 02 1879
Born Rathkeale (Limerick)
Father James
Mother Margaret (O’Malley)
Emmigrated to Canada pre 1910
Also known as Eileen or Aileen.

The above information was obtained from her Canadian burial records.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Tim

[Sinann]

Looks like she was older than she though or let on,
Dec 19 1873
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1873/03167/2161857.pdf
Mothers maiden name is badly written and the birth date may not be correct, her baptism would help confirm both.
 Sorry I misread her name, this could be a sister

Edited to add
Mary Catherine's baptism on the 21st
Right hand page
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000635009#page/82/mode/1up
The register stops a 1875, parents marriage may be there if Margaret was from the same parish.

[Sinann]

Ellen 2 Nov 1879
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1880/02879/2055182.pdf
Transcribed as Ileen
Ellen and Helen are interchangable

[Sinann]

James the father is a Grocer on both births so despite the ages this looks like the family in 1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Limerick/Rathkeale_Urban/Main_Street/1512960/

The house and building return gives number 100 as a public house.
A combination of public house and grocery wasn't unusual or he may have changed business.

[Sinann]

If I have the correct family looks like

Mother Margaret wife of a Grocer died Feb 1905
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1905/05598/4573807.pdf
Father James merchant widower died April 1905
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1905/05590/4570985.pdf
James in Will Calendar gives two names William and Eileen
http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014914/005014914_00038.pdf

[Sinann]

William born 1883
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1883/02742/2008199.pdf

[Sinann]

Quite likely there are more children but it's late, if you think this is the correct family you could continue checking the civil and parish records
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0892

[T4Tim]

Sinann;

Job well done.
You have done this before haven’t you?

For a bit there, I was skeptical but there were too many coincidences.
I was hung up because there was no brother shown but you cleared that up with the 1882/3 birth of William. I was under the impressi0on there was a brother who headed for Canada first and she followed. Fits now.

I had always believed the name was Eileen or Aileen but was thrown by the burial info. The paperwork you have provided sets it back on track and the handwriting could easily be misread.

Only hitch I see is no William in the 1901 census, but maybe he had already left town. The ages of the sisters and parents don’t match with the census or death records.

Small stuff really because I think you nailed it.

Thank you for your time and help.

Hopefully I can visit the shop when I am there next May.

The picture is Aileen at about 16 in Ireland.

[Sinann]

Your welcome, it was fun.
There is an 18 year old William Carey working as a farm servant in Limerick but I wonder if yours might be the William Carey born Limerick in Blackrock College.
Could your Schools cup playing grandfather be a school friend of William.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Blackrock/Castledawson_Avenue/1313353/
James Was worth a good bit when he died so they may have been able to afford to send him to Blackrock.