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Re: Name and age?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 15:08 BST (UK) »
Why do you say it doesn’t fit? I read it independently and only found the Ancestry transcription later, which agreed with my reading other than the age.

Findmypast also agrees.

Thank you for doing that, I wanted confirmation that the transcribe was correct.  Wearthy, given as a middle name for both boys sounds like a surname to me and I don't have this name in my tree. This is a very complicated branch of my family with multiple marriages and blended families.

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 15:09 BST (UK) »
It looks like 8 to me.

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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 15:14 BST (UK) »
Sorry guys, I know Mary's maiden name was Murphy and I don't think Patrick the oldest child is hers, he is too old?

I think this is Patrick's 2nd marriage the first happening in Ireland as that's were both Patrick jnr and Mary jnr were born.

Mary later went on to marry James Gallaghan in 1855 after Pat Senior died in 1854.

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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 15:38 BST (UK) »
Sorry Yvonne -- I'm getting a bit lost! Are you saying that the maiden name of the Mary on the 1851 census was Murphy please? Hence the second marriage wasn't to Mary Kenny?
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« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 15:52 BST (UK) »
Sorry Yvonne -- I'm getting a bit lost! Are you saying that the maiden name of the Mary on the 1851 census was Murphy please? Hence the second marriage wasn't to Mary Kenny?

Yes, unless I've got this massively wrong, but this is the marriage cert for Mary's second marriage to James Gallaghan which explains why I think this. Oriel Street is constant here, Mary and her new husband are still living there on the 1861 census, with John from her first marriage, Roseannah her youngest child (3) and 3 of James's children from his first marriage to Susan Reilly.

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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 15:58 BST (UK) »
Didn't people sometimes give a child the name of someone who had been good to them or they wanted to impress for some reason. Maybe some Wearthy person had helped the family out in some way.

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« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 16:09 BST (UK) »
Didn't people sometimes give a child the name of someone who had been good to them or they wanted to impress for some reason. Maybe some Wearthy person had helped the family out in some way.

Yes that's very feasible!  It's just a very English name and my family are very Irish! :-)  Silly I know but it goes against the grain of all my research.

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« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 17:31 BST (UK) »
Didn't people sometimes give a child the name of someone who had been good to them or they wanted to impress for some reason. Maybe some Wearthy person had helped the family out in some way.

Yes that's very feasible!  It's just a very English name and my family are very Irish! :-)  Silly I know but it goes against the grain of all my research.
That's way I was thinking it wasn't a family name.

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« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 15 July 20 17:54 BST (UK) »
And I bet it's supposed to be Worthy not Wearthy!  ???