Searching for Margaret DONOHUE

[TreeTreeTree]

Searching for any info on Margaret Donohue/Donohoe
Date of birth 03 May 1917
Birth registered in Portumna Galway
Place of birth Coolfin, Abbey, Loughrea
Mother name Power
Father name Thomas Donohue
Reputed to married Culshaw ( we can’t find records)

[heywood]

Just to give some context - here is her birth
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1917/01309/1541393.pdf

‘Reputed to married Culshaw’

Did she stay in Ireland/emigrate?

[heywood]

There is a marriage in Ince, Lancashire in 1939
William Culshaw and Margaret Donohue

[heywood]

We are not allowed to post 1939 information but it would be worth your checking it.

[heywood]

Death
Wigan December quarter 1994
Margaret Mary Culshaw d.o.b 3rd May 1917

[Kiltaglassan]

Birth registered in Portumna Galway
Place of birth Coolfin, Abbey, Loughrea

Coolfin townland in Ballynakill civil parish (closer to Portumna).
https://www.townlands.ie/galway/leitrim/ballynakill/abbeyville/coolfin/

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5515520#map=11/53.1270/-8.3455

[softly softly]

Potentially 8 Culshaw/Donohue  children born between 1940-57 in registration district Ince.(Includes 1 set of twins)

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[Kiltaglassan]

Do you have the marriage record of her parents?

Marriage 7 March 1905 at Gortanummera RC Church.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1905/10156/5695513.pdf

The priest has mistakenly swapped the townlands where the groom and bride were living.
Thomas - Coolfin
Bridget - Claggernagh
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4648002#map=12/53.1027/-8.2693

[Kiltaglassan]

In 1911 census at Coolfin (Abbeyville, Galway).
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Abbeyville/Coolfin/472544/

Do you have the birth records for the male twins John and Patrick?

Born 15/16 May 1909 at Coolfin - Patrick Joseph (elder twin) and John Francis.   MMN Power
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1909/01609/1645840.pdf


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