Is This A Name Or Shorthand?

[MyAncestorsCouldNotType]

Hi.

Can anyone make out or understand what the name is/should be?

It is the father's first name...something...Gallagher.

[Rosinish]

Looks to be O'hara?

Annie

[maddys52]

Oliver? 

[bbart]

Father's name is there twice... the one in the right column is clearer.... Moen?

Edit:  He makes his e's like I do.... reverse 3's.

[Rosinish]

The 1st instance of the forename was the same hand who wrote McGlynn & the 'M' looks nothing like the initial of the name of the father?

Ditto with other instances of the letter 'l' (L)?

Also, what I think looks like an 'h' (2nd initial) looks very similar to the 'h' in Gallagher)

Annie

Add...Hello bbart, not been on a thread with you in an age! 

[bbart]

*waves to Annie!* 

At first I thought the first name started with an O as well, but once I noticed the second instance of the name, I just kept seeing the last three letters as  -oen, so now my brain only sees an M to make a name out of it.

I was going to look for a marriage, but I'm not even sure of Bridget's maiden name... Farmer? Farrier?

[Rosinish]

I think we need to see a bit more of the image, headings especially, to make sense of it as I thought 'Farmer' was in a different column as an occ.   

Annie

[bbart]

Squint your eyes, and imagine Owen with a Giant Capital W?

Column headers, yes please!

[Rosinish]

MACNT, can you tell us where & when the birth took place to help us try & find a marriage?

Looks like an Irish record?

Have you tried looking for them on a census?

Annie