Birth puzzle help please-England or Ireland?

[heywood]

Found the family in 1891 4306/16

Workington, Cumberland

There is a daughter Margaret but she is 14 yrs plus several others

Father James, Blacksmith and Mother, Margaret both born Ireland.

These births fit with Irish censuses

[worth]

Josey, ive looked on the irish.ie website, ancestry and find my past x

[josey]

Good finds, here is the same family in 1881
RG11; Piece: 5181; Folio: 96; Page: 6; this Margaret 4 born Ellenborough Cumberland.

[heywood]

1939 she still has 1888 birth date 

[josey]

The Workington Margaret's birth
MCILWAINE, MARGARET       MCLOUGHLIN 
GRO Reference: 1877  J Quarter in COCKERMOUTH  Volume 10B  Page 616

Might she have taken 11 years off her age When did she die?

ADDED: Who were the witnesses at the 1910 marriage? Just looked on irishgenealogy.ie - Harry Ward & M Barker, so no help!!
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1910/09971/5625594.pdf

[osprey]

Probate index gives her date of death as 9 Feb 1959. Age given on death registration is 68.

[worth]

Josey, what you have said about the age is interesting i have just remembered that after Margaret died there was something said about her having lied about her age sometime in her life and she was actually older that what her children believed she was, that would make sense with what you have just put !!!!!

[heywood]

That’s good.
She is a couple of years older than her husband in 1939 and the same age on marriage. She maybe wouldn’t want to appear too many years older.
Everything else fits with England etc.
There is a gap too between the two older girls in the family and the younger group. Unless there were baby deaths.

You just have to find her between 1891 and her marriage.

[worth]

Margarets daughter who had the DNA test said that it showed no Irish in her so i'm hoping that Margarets parents where English (but born in Ireland) as well, i shall go check it all out thankyou x