Sailor Ahoy

[Celtic Damsel]

HI All looking for some suggestions from your brilliant heads! My Great granddad  one William Owens said on his marriage cert he was a sailor in 1870 in Dublin. I am guessing he was in the merchant service. I have gone off to the archives available and had a look for any clues to who he was and where he was born but there are so many with the same name in the period he would have been serving ! anyone got any other suggestions for me where to look for him, his age just says full on his cert so 21 or over in 1870 the rumour in our family was the family were from Wales but I have never been able to prove that he stayed in Dublin after leaving the service and my granddad was born in Dublin I found the fAMILY on the 1901 but I think I'm not meant to find anything bout him as he didnt write on the census where any of them were born including himself! thank s

[IgorStrav]

If you have the 1870 marriage certificate, what was his father's name and occupation, and who were the witnesses?

[Christine53]

You have the family on the 1901 census . Did you mean the Ireland census and could we have a reference, please ?

[heywood]

Is this the family?
William Owens, Sailor and Bridget Connolly. 1870 marriage
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1870/11370/8174890.pdf

1901 census (no places of birth)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Mansion_House/Church_Lane/1342566/

There is this marriage - Mary Jane Owens with father Thomas, Shoemaker.
Might be related 

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-80-3-6-077

[Celtic Damsel]

If you have the 1870 marriage certificate, what was his father's name and occupation, and who were the witnesses?

Hi his father named as Thomas Owens a shoemaker witnesses were Phillip ? cant tell the surname but the other was Mary Green and his last name looks simulariliy scrawled so possibly Green as well

[Celtic Damsel]

Is this the family?
William Owens, Sailor and Bridget Connolly. 1870 marriage
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1870/11370/8174890.pdf yes the first one is him you can see what I mean about the scrawled writing on the witnesses but I think it looks like they are both Green?


1901 census (no places of birth)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Mansion_House/Church_Lane/1342566/

There is this marriage - Mary Jane Owens with father Thomas, Shoemaker.
Might be related 

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-80-3-6-077

[Celtic Damsel]

Is this the family?
William Owens, Sailor and Bridget Connolly. 1870 marriage
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1870/11370/8174890.pdf very interesting on the Mary Jane possibly a sister
 
1901 census (no places of birth)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Mansion_House/Church_Lane/1342566/

There is this marriage - Mary Jane Owens with father Thomas, Shoemaker.
Might be related 

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-80-3-6-077

[Celtic Damsel]

You have the family on the 1901 census . Did you mean the Ireland census and could we have a reference, please ?

yes they are on Irish census its the only entry I'v ever come across with no address given I think

[Celtic Damsel]

You have the family on the 1901 census . Did you mean the Ireland census and could we have a reference, please ?

yes on the Irish census I think it's the only entry I#v ever come across where no places of birth were given typical of trying to find out where this elusive man came from lol http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Mansion_House/Church_Lane/1342566/