Recently I made a breakthrough in finding what became of my gx3 grandfather William Muldoon, who was born 1857 in Glasgow. His parents were John Muldoon (a hawker) & Mary Quirk. It seems they travelled a lot; Belfast, Glasgow, East Lothian and Newcastle on Tyne. All of William’s siblings died in infancy. Mary seems to die between 1863-1864 as John then gets married to Elizabeth Holliday in 1864 in Wigtown Cumberland.
By the 1871 census the Muldoon’s are living in the Old Hall at Bedlington (mistranscribed as “Meldone”). However this time there are two more children; Susanna (b. 1861) and Sarah (b. 1864/5) in the family. Sarah later married a Robert Henzell, however I’ve been unable to locate a birth record for her. The census varies in saying her birth as County Durham (1871), Ellington (1881), and 1891 as County Durham again, she later died in 1898.
Additionally I believe Susanna is Elizabeth’s illegitimate child prior to marriage. (Marriage status was “single”).
There is also an 1874 article which mentions how Elizabeth Muldoon was complicit along with others in the murder of a Thomas Griffith at the Old Hall, after she threw a butter firkin on his head from the top of a flight of stairs. William & Sarah are mentioned as witnesses (which is how I came find them in the first place).
Many thanks
