Baptism for a Susan/Mary/or Ellen McCaffrey

[Nick93]

Hello everyone. I'm looking for a baptism that would have happened in November 1862 or '63, in Creen, Belturbet. My x2 great grandmother was named Susan McCaffrey. But on her marriage certificate, she goes by Mary McCaffrey, and years later, on the deed of the house she and her husband had lived in most of her life, she seems to go by Ellen, Ellen Blyth. Her parents were James McCaffrey and Mary Fitzpatrick. I'd like to see what her legal, or Christian name, or however you'd like to call it, was. I know almost none of her grandchildren went by their official names.

Thanks in advance

[Dundee]

My x2 great grandmother was named Susan McCaffrey. But on her marriage certificate, she goes by Mary McCaffrey

This isn't her marriage as Susan?  The father is John, not James.  She is Susan in 1901 and 1911.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/transcript-civil/6c7f211858967

Debra 

[Nick93]

My x2 great grandmother was named Susan McCaffrey. But on her marriage certificate, she goes by Mary McCaffrey

This isn't her marriage as Susan?  The father is John, not James.  She is Susan in 1901 and 1911.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/transcript-civil/6c7f211858967

Debra 

Ahh, thank you, Dundee. I'll have to confer with my cousin about where we may have seen her going by "Mary." I am curious about her being called Ellen in the 1949 deed, we're reasonably sure that's her, since she lived in that house her whole life and died in 1953. I wonder, was her baptismal record on that site, if you don't mind having a look? It looks like I need to register.

[heywood]

This is where you have Mary.
Parish record of The marriage: November 12th 1881
Samuel Blyth and Mary McCaffrey
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634814#page/35/mode/1up

I can’t yet see a baptism but having the name she was baptised with isn’t necessarily the one she was raised with.

[Dundee]

You don't need to register really, just put in your name and tick the box.  You have to do it every time you visit the site.

Debra 

[Dundee]

The bride's name on the marriage before them also differs between the church register and the civil registration.  The dates are different as well as some witnesses.  Maybe the priest had sampled too much of the wine.

There is a baptism in the Kilmore parish registers for a Susan daughter of John McCAFFRY and Ellen FITZPATRICK (my translation) on 29 Nov 1863.

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634815#page/44/mode/1up

Debra 

[Nick93]

Thank you both so much! Were middle names really much in use in Ireland at this point of time? And was it usual for people to go by names other than their birth names?

An aside, it seems Susan has two different ages in the census of 1901 and 1911, one putting her birth in 1863 and the other in 1868.

[heywood]

Here is a copy of the marriage
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1881/11020/8029347.pdf

Susan is 18yrs - born abt 1863

[Nick93]

Here is a copy of the marriage
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1881/11020/8029347.pdf

Susan is 18yrs - born abt 1863

Thanks!