Savage Family Galway (and before)

[savobien]

I am trying to build my family tree and it stops in Oughterard. The furthest I can find is Peter Savage (born circa 1799), who lived in Church Road and was married to Mary Ryan (Larner) in Oct 1829. It is believed within my side of the family, near Clifden, that he was possibly a Protestant minister from the north that converted to Catholicism to marry Mary, herself a widow. I am keen to find out more about Peter and the line than follows that is separate to mine. As far as I can find they only had one child.

His son Richard Savage married to Bridget Kenny, lived Faugh East House 26. Richard and Bridget had 7 children:

Peter John Savage 1858–
Maria Savage 1860–
Mary (Bernard?) Savage 1860–
Jane Savage 1863–
Thomas Savage 1865–
Elizabeth Margaret Savage 1869–
Richard Joseph Savage 1872–1931

Their son Richard Joseph Savage, born in 1872 is my Great Grandfather.

Can anyone provide any information on Peter and/or any of the other families that followed?

Thanks

Shaun

[Sinann]

Welcome to RootsChat
Have you looked for marriages/deaths for the children and parents on Irish Genealogy
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp
For example this one appears to be Thomas
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1899/10392/5783996.pdf
You'll need to prove your not a robot and sign in, be sure to click the little box.

This page will tell you which records have images at the moment
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/civil-records/help/what-years-are-covered-by-the-historic-records-of-births-marriages-and-deaths

[savobien]

Thanks for that Sinann. I have been concentrating on the mysterious Peter and trying to find his path to Oughterard, so I hadn't looked in to Thomas. This was a good find and a nice pointer in the right direction.

Regards

Shaun

[hallmark]

The 1901 Census can help too.... these are all Galway born ones

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01nqc/

then using

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp   you can just put Surname in and a year range and search for them... no need to put any district in!

Allow a year or two each way for year ranges

[hallmark]

Then...having looked at the 1901 names, just scroll down at change it to 1911 and search 1911 census

[garstonite]

old Lancashire name Savage - my grandads sister married a Savage - so I have done a little research of the family - for example
.......................
Marriage: 21 Jan 1558/9 St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Ric. Stophford -
Grace Savage -
    Register: Marriages 1557 - 1626, Page 177, Entry 9
   

Marriage: 25 Jun 1559 St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Richard Lailand -
Ellin Savage -
    Register: Marriages 1557 - 1626, Page 178, Entry 9
this is well before the English Civil War to which was the period I thought the name may have originated ...
still haven't gone back before these dates