Just skimmed through the posts here from yesterday & today and will have to go over everything more carefully but just a few comments about a few misconceptions which could lead to incorrect assumptions.
Sorry, I seemed to be lost in this thread about the 1911 Ireland census and whether or not Margaret was alive at that time. If she was I would presume she would be in County Londonderry, which was a part of Antrim at the time, and not in Tyrone. Can someone find that info again? Thank you!
Londonderry and Antrim are separate counties as is Tyrone so not sure what the confusion is here.
The other point I wanted to make was the assumption that illegitimate Catholic children were known the the name of their father, is misleading. Whilst it may, or may not, be the case in other parts of Ireland it was not as a rule the case in Ulster. An illegitimate child was often known by the surname of whoever was looking after him/her at the time (unmarried mother or her family, stepfather, mother's partner, foster family, etc.). In the case of illegitimate children a surname could also change from record to record during the same period. For example, name in census might be different than what appears in school register.
