The Great Padden Mystery

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Links to records being quoted in original post wouldn't go amiss!

[ShaunJ]

There was a Patrick Padden born in Belmullet workhouse in 1885. Son of Anne Padden. No father listed.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1885/02654/1978361.pdf

[Maiden Stone]

There are 5 men called Patrick Padden on Lives of the First World War Remembered website. This includes men who survived the war.

Connaught Rangers 10177, died 28/04/1915
Royal Dublin Fusiliers 14252
British Army Service Corps SS/5215
Royal Navy Seaman SS712, born 18th March 1886 Belmullet
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 45903, died 4/10/1917
https://www.iwm.org.uk
Members of the public can add information to this website.

The website A Street Near You is a database of WW1 service deaths ordered by the places people came from or had a connection to. Focussing on an area on the map brings up a list of casualties below the map with information about individuals. https://astreetnearyou.org

[Maiden Stone]

Delia?

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Glenco/Bellacorick/707373/

I can't see Delia in 1901. Neither can I find a birth registration for her. Could she have another first name?

[Sinann]

There was a Patrick Padden born in Belmullet workhouse in 1885. Son of Anne Padden. No father listed.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1885/02654/1978361.pdf

Interesting, I wondered if this could be Delia

Darbili 1894 to Ann, no father also in the workhouse
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1894/02268/1852127.pdf

In the workhouse in 1901 as D P aged 6

[dathai]

Maiden Stone

  if you look at this they have him as 1916 same service number
https://www.geni.com/people/Patrick-Padden/6000000031884300015

[heywood]

There was a Patrick Padden born in Belmullet workhouse in 1885. Son of Anne Padden. No father listed.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1885/02654/1978361.pdf

Delia is often interchanged with Bridget.
Whilst looking for both these names, I came across this birth - Darbili - daughter of Ann in the Workhouse.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1894/02268/1852127.pdf

The name is most likely to be Deirbhile who is a local saint.

There is also the mystery of ‘Mrs Catherine’ and the Convent if Mercy. I think the nuns were based at the Workhouse.

[heywood]

I see Sinann has also found the same record but I thought I would still post as I have added a bit more info re Deirbhile.

Her well is near Fallmore cemetery which I think is the most beautiful scenic setting for a cemetery but that is by the by.

[Maiden Stone]

Are any of the Patricks on a census?