Bridget Margaret Ward

Mac an Bhaird:

Unfortunately, the records for Kilkerrin/Clonberne RC parish start in 1892 so no record of her baptism or marriage would be available. Civil registration started in 1864. I did look for a death record for a Bridget Igoe from 1864-1890 in the appropriate registration districts and did not find a death record for an adult Bridget Igoe.

Roger McDonnell

You may already be aware of them, but there are records for what appears ot be your William and Margaret Igoe in the FamilySearch database [https://www.familysearch.org],  If you search there, you can find Margaret under ID number LC73-ZY5, and can access the records for the others easily through that record, as you will see.  Margaret's record states that she was born in Kilkerrin parish, and the record for William says that he was born in Ballintobber parish in Mayo.  That may be an error, since there is a Ballintubber parish in Roscommon which is very near Kilkerrin.  There are several mutually inconsistent marriage records mentioned as well, so at least one or two other errors exist.

FamilySearch is operated by the LDS church, and is free to use.  You have to create an account to use the database, but they don’t ask for much personal info, and no missionaries will contact you or anything like that.  The database does not have separate family trees, and is essentially one huge tree of linked records, in which there is a single record for each person, with a unique identification number (although sometimes people unknowingly create duplicate records for the same person, which you can merge when you spot them).  In each record, at the right hand side of the screen, you can see the screen names of those who have created or modified the record, and can send them private messages, so you might be able to get more info by contacting them (and perhaps also locate some relatives that way).

The record for Margaret states that her parents were William and Catherine [no maiden surname given] Ward, and that they were married in1805 in Donegal, which sounds unlikely under the circumstances, so that may be another error in the record (though one never knows).  That information appears to be drawn from a family tree at the Ancestry site.

The surname Igoe/Jago is originally of Welsh origin, and is based on the Biblical name Jacob.  in Ireland, it developed into Mac Iago, which was later anglicized in various ways, such as MacEgo and MacKigo, but in the area of what is now Roscommon it was usually anglicized as Igoe.  From your signature, it's clear that you are already aware that the surname Ward (when not of English origin) usually comes from the Irish name Mac an Bháird ("son of the Bard") and developed in the Galway/Mayo area (I have some Ward relatives myself from not too far away in Mayo, where the name Igoe is also not uncommon).