Maryborough Prison??

[Sinann]

There is a death of a William Boulger in 1908, daughter Sarah H is the informant, he is listed as a Civil Servant
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1908/05488/4537056.pdf

Possible son Edmund
http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014915/005014915_00317.pdf

[Sinann]

An Edmund married 1888 and his father William is an Inspector of buildings for the Board of Works
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1888/10776/5929926.pdf

This is starting to fit with the information you have that he was an architect.

Assuming I have the correct people

[luckytobeirish]

Yes, Sinann. You absolutely have the right family. Thank you.

Sarah Boulger promised her father that she'd stay in Ireland until he died and would ensure that he was buried as a protestant (His wife was Catholic). Sarah was on a ship to the US shortly after her father died (I have the ship's record). Thanks to you, we know that she and William Smith married soon after her arrival in the U.S.

I'm excited to open the document you have about William Boulger's employment. Many thanks!!

[Sinann]

It's only a marriage cert.

I wanted to see if I could find anything more in the newspapers about him but the site is playing up on me, I'll try later on a different computer.

[Sinann]

No luck with the newspapers
This looks like William and family in 1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Queen_s_Co_/Maryborough_Urban/Stradbally_Road/1649697/

[Sinann]

Have you got all the children of William Boulger?
Could Georgina be one
She married Richard Tyndall in 1882
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1882/10976/8012300.pdf

[luckytobeirish]

Sinann,

You've found so much great info. I had found that Georgina was a sibling (or perhaps a half sibling?) of Sarah Boulger (Bolger) Smith. I've wondered if William Boulger might have been married before and perhaps Georgina was from his first marriage (?)

Ancestry.com has a Boulger family tree which lists a number of siblings to Georgina, Edmund (Edward?) and Sarah.

Georgina married a number of times and ended up in the U.S. I noticed that Edmund was a witness at Georgina's wedding and that it took place in a Church of Ireland church.

The 1901 census shows the divide in the family over religion. All of the males are listed as Church of Ireland members, while all of the females are listed as Catholic Church members. For some reason, Georgina and Sarah don't fit that pattern.

Fascinating stuff!

[Sinann]

Does the tree give a name for the children's mother?
The older children appear to be born before Civil Registration of birth in 1864.
There is a marriage in Wicklow of a William Boulger to Eliza Byrne in 1857
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVD-HMV5
but the image of the cert isn't online yet and may not be for some time the last update to Irish Genealogy was very recent.
I can't see Sarah's birth cert or Hariet of the census or a second marriage for William.
That said there is a Sarah Jane Boulger to a William Boulger and Eliza Byrne in 1875, in Johnstown which is in Kildare but close to the border with Dublin, the father in this case is listed as a Carpenter.

[Sinann]

Sarah H Boulger is on The Statue of Liberty & Ellis site
She travelled on the Oceanic from Queenstown (Cobh) arriving Nov 11 1908
She give her mother as Elizabeth Boulger 27 ? Quay Maryborough.
Sarah is travelling to her sister, can't make out the name but she lives as 229 West 123rd St New York
Think Sarah gives her occupation as Servant.
Age 28
Place of Birth Dublin
https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger-result
Going to see if I can figure out the mother's address, why would Maryborough have a Quay!

I'm wondering now if it should be Essex Quay Dublin