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Re: Irish Protestant birth records
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 09 March 25 19:07 GMT (UK) »
Ah thank you for the correction! I think things get mistranscribed which gets confusing...

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Re: Irish Protestant birth records
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 09 March 25 19:30 GMT (UK) »
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Confusingly when I click it from my computer it brings up a massive PDF but when I click it from my phone it brings up a single photocopied page with the birth entry for a Mary Rafferty.
Strange but does explain why I didn't see the record on my computer.

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The townland was Drumnaslooeen and the extract from the census return of 1851 is below.
https://censussearchforms.nationalarchives.ie/reels/c19/007246695/007246695_00667.pdf
The date of the 1851 census extract is 1921 so that Mary Rafferty was alive then and contact is Mrs. Mary Caufield of Ballinvoash.
1911 census shows a Mary Caulfield, age 76 as mother-in-law of Patrick Clarke (husband of Mary)-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Turlough/Ballinvoash/717760/
In 1901 Mary herself is head of household-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Turlough/Ballinvoash/1585342/

Marriage of Patrick Clarke & Mary Caulfield (father James)-
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1897/10446/5804024.pdf
However, Mary's birth lists mother as Mary Tunney (as does marriage of James Caulfield) so looks like it's back to the drawing board-
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1874/03133/2148703.pdf
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: Irish Protestant birth records
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 09 March 25 20:02 GMT (UK) »
I'm new to this so please forgive me if this is a daft question:

If Mary Clarke, wife of Patrick Clarke, is the daughter of Mary and James Caulfield, then who is the Mary Rafferty who applied for the copy of the census extract? Aren't they two different people?

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Re: Irish Protestant birth records
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 09 March 25 21:32 GMT (UK) »
Correction, THREE (POTENTIALLY FOUR) different people -

Mary Clarke, wife of Patrick Clark and daughter of:

Mary Caulfield (nee Tunney) and James Caulfield and the listed addressee for the census extract

Mary Rafferty, applicant for the census extract that was sent to Mary Caulfield's address

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Mary Rafferty born C1850 listed on the census extract and who may be the applicant or could be a relative of the same name who emigrated to England and married Michael Prendergast.

And why does everyone have to be called Mary? My head hurts...

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