A two part enquiry:
1. General - I am unfamiliar with the availability of marriage records in Co. Mayo (as it is very variable across Ireland), but seeking a record in the 1817-1821 period. What is the likelihood records existing?
2. I am specifically seeking anyone who has good knowledge on the McDONAGH (phonetic) family in Co. Mayo.
My Irish ancestry is a single DNA vector, and all matches now point exclusively to County Mayo, a known McDONAGH area, however there is no paper trail for the heads of the family who presumably married there around 1820, so we have no specific location. Up to 6 different Mayo family names have produced matches, including McDONAGH, BRADY, FAHY & LAVELLE.
The marriage would be between a Luke McD* and a woman named Mary of unknown surname. She gave birth en-route in England in 1822 to presumably her eldest child. Earliest English records infer surname McDONNER, which then became standardised as McDONALD or MACK by 1851.
The English descendants in my atDNA project that provided the Mayo connections are these GEDmatch kits: Z424787, A027914, XJ1097054, EE4882301, A845699 & FL8258356.
Thanks.
