Bridget (Moylan) Sweeney/McSweeney

Hi Clare,

Do you have marriage or baptismal certs for any of your ancestors mentioned above? That might help locate certain parishes or areas. I also suggest you get in touch with Glens of Antrim Historical Society. Such a tragic event would definitely have been news worthy at the time and there might be a significant record of the drowning locally, perhaps knowledge of the family. Their website is here --> https://antrimhistory.net/contact-us/

Good luck in your search!

Thanks David, I paid for a researcher in Ireland to find the birth certificates for Bridget, her husband Daniel and their two sons High and Daniel. I have these and also newsapaper cuttingf about the Cost Guard tragedy in which Dabiel died. Where I have met a brick wall is with Bridget after the death of her husband and her sons. At the very keast i would like to know when and where they died and where they are buried. I suspect life would have been very difficult for Bridget as a poor widow at that time.