professor patrick reilly

[stephen mcdowall]

hi i am trying to find out about my father cousin, Patrick Reilly he was born in anderston Glasgow he died i think around January 2019 he was a professor at Glasgow university also trying to find out who his father and mother was unfortunately my own father is dead so dont know any more can you help
many thanks
Stephen mcdowall

[heywood]

Hello Stephen,

Just searching his name, including ‘Professor’ brings up a death notice and an obituary.
If he is your father’s cousin, then they share grandparents, is that correct?
Do you have your father’s marriage  certificate with his parents’ details?
I see you have a thread here about your McDowall family and that refers to another topic,  neither of which you have responded to.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=806855.

Is Reilly another of your family names is the connection through the McDowall line?

Regards
Heywood

[stephen mcdowall]

 my father john mcdowall parents were James mcdowall and his mother was Katherine mcdowall nee mcgonigal his grand parents were Donald mcdowall and his grandmother was Mary mcdowall nee Reilly sorry i  am not great on computers.

[heywood]

Is this your family in 1901 living in Anderston?

Donald Mcdowall 28 yrs
Mary Mcdowall   26 yrs
James Mcdowall   6 yrs
Donald Mcdowall 5 yrs
John Mcdowall 3 yrs

You would need to access https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk for details of the family in 1911 and births/marriages etc.

1891 census shows several Mary Reillys born about 1875 so you would need marriage details for Donald and Mary.
Presumably, Patrick Reilly is connected through a brother of Mary, is that right?

[MonicaL]

From the details on his obit, as mentioned by Heywood, this looks a good possibility for his birth as it mentions that he was 89 when he died:

PATRICK FLANNIG(AN?) REILLY
1928
644/11 115
Anderston

It mentions when he was second youngest of 10 children.

It also states that his father died when he was 11.

For your father to be his first (?) cousin, a daughter of Donald mcdowall and Mary mcdowall nee Reilly married a Reilly?

Do you have the names of all the children of Donald and Mary?

Monica

[heywood]

I don’t think that is him Monica. He was 86 years old when he died in the one I saw.
An image from his requiem mass service shows his birth as 6th January 1932. That obituary is perhaps wrong.

[MonicaL]

You can tell it is late, 86 it is!

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16978502.obituary-patrick-reilly-professor-of-literature-at-glasgow-university/

Also, www.heraldscotland.com/announcements/deaths/deaths/16363185.Patrick_Reilly/

His marriage looks to have been in 1857 in Blythswood.

Monica

Added: Stephen, you can see from these details that he died last July it seems, not earlier this year.

[paulduncan]

He was my grandad Jimmy Reillys brother. I remember him and my aunt Rose well