McDowell children of Matilda Douglas and George McDowell

[sjgrace53]

Hi All,

Could I please ask for some help
I have found out my great granny  Sarah McDowell was 1 of at least 10 ( that I have found )

Matilda Douglas and George McDowell parents George was a shoe maker ballymena here’s the wedding

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1870/11367/8173259.pdf

I am looking into her brothers and sisters in particular Nancy McDowell
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1884/02694/1992026.pdf

I have found her birth but can not find her census, marriage or death ?

Also Mary Jane McDowell was the 1st child born

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1870/03326/2219065.pdf



But my question is they went on and had another Mary McDowell 1892

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1892/02328/1871504.pdf


So would the 1st Mary have passed away.
Thanks for reading

[Kiltaglassan]

Normally that would be the case, with a second child named after the first who died, but I don't see any death record for the first Mary in Ballymena S.R.D.


KG

[sjgrace53]

Strange I have found the second Mary on the 1911 census  with her sister Ellen mcdowell now wilson

[Kiltaglassan]

Strange I have found the second Mary on the 1911 census  with her sister Ellen mcdowell now wilson

Here's the link for others to see-
Residents of a house 11 in Part of Sixth Street (Wood Vale Ward, Antrim).
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Wood_Vale_Ward/Part_of_Sixth_Street/157424/

Problem is that both Ellen and Mary say that they were born in Belfast.


KG

 

[sjgrace53]

Also the other children in 1901
Have done the same crossed out
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003981313/

Dads in a different house
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000265592/

Just states co.Antrim

This is messy.... and interesting at same time 😅