Hi Mitch
I was alerted to your post when I logged in to irelandxo.com today.
I have done some copy-editing on the original to make it more readable and have added Ellen Allender to the two parishes in which her Mangan children were baptised, Kilrush and Kilfearagh.
I also uploaded a properly oriented scan of her 1881 census return, which is listed under Additional Information: Supporting Documents. There does not appear to be any way to add a caption directly to the image.
I have helped other Allender descendants with their research in the last year or two.
Pat Mignane and Ellen Alender married in Kilrush parish on 28 Feb 1854 and had at least four children baptised in County Clare:
- Margaret on 11 Feb 1855 in Kilrush parish; and
- an illegible entry in Oct 1857, Francis in Aug 1859 and Mary on 21 Jun 1863 in Kilkee parish.
The early Kilkee register has never been microfilmed.
As Patrick, Ellen and Francis were in Bilston for the 1861 census, they must have gone back and forth between Clare and Staffordshire more than once.
I very much doubt that the Ellen Manuel enumerated in Liverpool in 1861 is Ellen Mangan.
I also came to the conclusion that Mrs. Mangan was the daughter of Francis Allender and Ellen King, mainly because Francis Mangan registered the death of his uncle John James Allender, who died on 27 Dec 1888 aged 52, and because the latter's age at death exactly matches the baptism date for the John born to Francis Allender and Ellen King.
On the other hand, Ellen Jones (previously Mangan née Allender), like most people of her generation, appears to have neither known nor cared what age she was. I would stop short of accusing her of deliberately lying about her age. She married in 1854, claimed to be only 20 in 1861 and 45 in 1881, when she had a one-year-old child. If she was the subject of the illegible 1830 baptismal record, then she must have been 49 when she gave birth to her last child.
I would be interested in seeing your DNA matches at www.GEDmatch.com
