Eliza Maginnis

[Super_sweetpea]

My 2x great grandmother is recorded on the 1851 Census as living at 32, Granby Row, Manchester aged 18, birth place Newport, Ireland. The head of the household is her father John Maginnis,a shoe maker, his wife Catherine aswell as siblings Sarah and Ann. Any suggestions please as to how I can discover her baptism and when she came to Manchester from Ireland? I know she was Roman Catholic.

[heywood]

If you have access to Ancestry or FindmyPast, there are indexes for Catholic Parish Registers and you may be lucky.

If you don’t have access, you would need to find the parish and see if there are records online.

Here is Eliza McGuinnis (transcription) baptised 25th July 1832, Newport with parents John McGinnis (can’t read the spelling), Newport and Catherine Rourke. Could that be her?
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632656#page/24/mode/1up

You can only work out when the family moved through records such as censuses and births.

On your other  thread https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=868098. I posted 1861 census. That shows that all the daughters were born in Ireland - Ann about 1846.
You have your family in 1851 so the time line is 1846 - 1851.

[Super_sweetpea]

Thank you so much. That is a great help. Yes, I am pretty certain that is my family.

[heywood]

Here is Sarah - 10th May, 1835 - Newport with the same parents.
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632656#page/50/mode/1up

Margaret, 7th February 1839, Donoughmore, Co Down.
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633265#page/15/mode/1up

If you don’t have a Margaret in Manchester, she may have died in infancy.

[Super_sweetpea]

Thank you very much. No I didn't have Margaret and I did think there was a long gap of time between Sarah and Ann.

[garstonite]

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