Owen Finnigan married a Miss Fitzgerald

[Carol Exton]

hi I am trying to trace info on my maternal ggg parents. I don't know her christian name or either date of birth. Owen and Miss Fitzgerald were Irish, possibly from Cork. They must have been born between 1820 and 1850 bcause their daughter, my gg mother Nora Finnigan, was born in Mallar Cork  1867/1868.

[chempat]

Welcome to rootschat, Carol.

Where did you get the surname Fitzgerald, please?

You say Nora was born in 1888, but have posted a marriage for her in 1888?

[CaroleW]

This is the only Owen Finnigan in the right age range on the Irish 1901 but he is shown as not married

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Benburb/Drumay/1732817/

Have you found Nora on the 1901 census to establish where and when she was born?

[mckha489]

Children, you probably have


MILLS, NORAH  GRACE     TINIGAN 
GRO Reference: 1894  S Quarter in WOOLWICH  Volume 01D  Page 1183

MILLS, ALICE  DOROTHY     FINNIGAN 
GRO Reference: 1896  D Quarter in PORTSEA ISLAND  Volume 02B  Page 481

MILLS, JOHN  WILLIAM     FINNIGAN 
GRO Reference: 1899  D Quarter in WOOLWICH  Volume 01D  Page 1241

Winifred Kathleen b Hong Kong  1901.  Gro Army Birth Indices

Iris Marjory 1903.   MMN FINNEGAN
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1903/01863/1725974.pdf

Edward Owen. MMN FINNEGAN. 1904  Cork

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1904/01800/1705874.pdf


So cannot find them in 1901, as presumably in Hong Kong.


Modified, they are on the 1911 but I cannot find them on Familysearch to give the allowed link!

[mckha489]

there was a James FINNIGAN, son of Owen FINNIGAN and Catherine CLAYTON baptised 6 nov 1865
Sponsors Bridget MCGRATH and James FINNIGAN

Cork & Ross CARRIGALINE & TEMPLEBRIGID

But I think it is Catholic. And Nora was married Church of Ireland.

[Maiden Stone]

hi I am trying to trace info on my maternal ggg parents. I don't know her christian name or either date of birth. Owen and Miss Fitzgerald were Irish, possibly from Cork. They must have been born between 1820 and 1850 bcause their daughter, my gg mother Nora Finnigan, was born in Mallar Cork 1 Aug 1888.

Nora's marriage was 1st Aug. 1888, not her birth. She was "full age" on marriage certificate, therefore over 21. If that was correct, the latest year she could have been born was 1867.
Could "Mallar" be Mallow?
If she was born in Ireland after 1864 her birth should have been registered and her mother's Christian name and maiden forename should have been recorded. Birth, marriage and death registrations https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en  Nora may have been short for Hanora or Honora. No Finnegan births registered in Mallow district before 1870s.
 Nora's abode at the time of her marriage was Spike Island. Was her father connected to the army or navy?
P.S. Owen might also have been known as Eugene.

[mckha489]

I was also under the impression Owen was Eoin = a form of John.
In which case the birth seems a possible since Nora gives her name as Nora Ellen later

SR District/Reg Area - Macroom
Someone with local knowledge might be able to decipher those place names

Parents John FINNIGAN and Honora formerly WALSH

[mckha489]

They had a daughter Honora 1870 

[Maiden Stone]

I was also under the impression Owen was Eoin = a form of John.

Yes.
I mentioned Eugene because I noticed a Finnegan father as Owen on some birth registrations and Eugene on another.
A list of variants of Irish male names has recently been added to Ireland Reaching Out website. There's a new thread this week about it on RootsChat .