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Offline RayMilBax

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McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« on: Wednesday 23 January 19 13:42 GMT (UK) »
Hi
I wonder if anybody could assist with finding any actual church records for some McDonagh ancestors I'm trying to locate
I know that John McDonagh and Mabel Hann/Han got married in 1921 with the marriage registration advising it took place in Oughterard, Galway, Ireland but I cannot find anything further.
I have managed to find John McDonagh on the 1901 and 1911 Ireland Census living with his parents Thomas and Bridget and numerous siblings in Letterfore, Galway, Ireland but from his age cannot find anything around 1896/1897 for a birth or baptism record.
Likewise on some family trees it makes reference to Bridget being born Bridget Kelly and marrying John around 1891 (states married 20 years on 1911 census) but I cannot find any record of this or if she was Bridget Kelly at time of marriage.
Also any baptism record for Robert Edmund McDonagh in or around September 1925 in the Knockmore/Galway area would be great.
Hope anyone can help with some actual records or any other good snippets of information on this family.
Thanks.
Phil
Rayson - Bedworth pre 1850 and Manchester post 1850
Mills - Ireland pre 1850 and Manchester post 1850
Baxendale - Wigan pre 1850 and Manchester post 1850
Tallis - Bedworth pre and post 1850
England - Manchester pre and post 1850
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Re: McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 23 January 19 15:20 GMT (UK) »

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Re: McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 23 January 19 15:29 GMT (UK) »
Hi Sinann
That’s great! Thanks so much.
I must be using the Irish Genealogy site wrong as I did look on there and nothing appeared unless I’m stipulating the wrong criteria whenever I go to search as this is the 2nd or 3rd time this has happened recently and the guys on rootschat find it where I’d been looking in the first place
Rayson - Bedworth pre 1850 and Manchester post 1850
Mills - Ireland pre 1850 and Manchester post 1850
Baxendale - Wigan pre 1850 and Manchester post 1850
Tallis - Bedworth pre and post 1850
England - Manchester pre and post 1850
Townsend - Halifax pre and post 1850

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Re: McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 23 January 19 15:30 GMT (UK) »
1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Letterfore/Letterfore/1394500/

This is likely John's birth cert but it's linking to an empty page
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01naf/
I'll see if I can find the correct page

In the meantime Robert to confirm it's the family from the 1911 Census
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1902/01886/1733403.pdf


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Re: McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 23 January 19 15:33 GMT (UK) »
Keep the search as simple as possible, I didn't put in a reg district, only say Edward and surname and kept the year range over about 5 years, than choose the reg district out of the results

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Re: McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 23 January 19 15:47 GMT (UK) »
I can't find an image of the page I believe John is on, I've reported the problem and they will hopefully fix it on the next update.

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Re: McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 23 January 19 15:50 GMT (UK) »
Just looking at your post again, these are not church records, you need to search in the Civil Records on Irish Genealogy.
You won't get church records for Galway on Irish Genealogy and you won't get church records after about 1880 on any free site.

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Re: McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 23 January 19 15:59 GMT (UK) »
I'm not have any luck with Thomas and Bridget's marriage.

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Re: McDonagh Family Letterfore Galway
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 23 January 19 16:14 GMT (UK) »
Margaret Mary was born April 1891
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1891/02385/1889935.pdf
so you would assume the marriage is before this date.