Clancy family ballyshannon

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I located Mary Catherine's civil birth record from February 1892. The family was living in Bundoran.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1892/02358/1880845.pdf

I checked the 1901 census and did not find the family but I did have their census record on my own web site www.leitrim-roscommon.com/census

The family was living in Lissacholly townland in Kilbarron civil parish just north of Ballyshannon. The father James was 35 and mother Catherine was 30 and both born in Co. Leitrim. Mary Catherine was shown as 9 John James 7 Bernard Joseph 6William 4 Delia 2 Patrick 1.

Here is the 1911 census and Mary Kate was still in Ireland  http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Donegal/Bundoran/Magheracar/477178/   You will notice the ages of the parents increased more than 10 years which was not unusual.

The parents were married in 1891 in Co. Leitrim. The civil record shows where they lived and the names of their fathers. https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1891/10667/5886944.pdf

Let me know what questions you have.

Roger McDonnell

Many many thanks

Is there anyway we could find out when and why mary catherine left ireland.?

Generally they left Ireland for a better opportunity. I had the incorrect link for my census site. Here is the correct link   www.leitrim-roscommon.com/1901census

Roger

You are curious as to why your ancestors went to Scotland. As Roger has said, they probably went for work and a better life. Ireland lacks natural resources. No coal, oil, iron ore etc, and so apart from a modest amount of shipbuilding in Belfast and the Belfast linen mills (which mostly only employed women), it did not really get the industrial revolution that benefited England and Scotland where mills, steelworks, ship building, coal mining and all their support industries were major employers creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Much better paid than subsistence farming or weaving. Added to that you had the effects of a massive population explosion in Ireland – up from 3 million in 1750 to 8 million in 1841 (no-one is really sure of the reasons why but reduced neo-natal deaths seem to be a factor) and the famine. So some push factors and some pull factors saw huge numbers of people leave Ireland. Something like 8 million people emigrated from Ireland between 1801 and 1921. See:

https://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/emigration-Ireland-19th-century…

If you look at the Scottish censuses for the Glasgow area in the late 1800s, you will see that about every fifth person recorded there was born in Ireland. Scotland was a particularly popular place to go to work because it was easy and very cheap to get to. The shipping companies main business was cargo and the passengers were just top-up revenue. Competition was fierce and passenger fares very low. People working in Scotland could come home for weddings or the harvest, as well as holidays (Glasgow used to shut down for 2 weeks every July, known as the Glasgow Fair holiday and there would then be a huge exodus to Ireland).  You could also send children back to stay with their grandparents, thereby leaving the wife free to work. You couldn’t do all those things so easily from Australia, America or Canada.  A bit of background in this BBC link:

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zr6ycdm/revision/1

Many thanks roger and elwyn.

Looking into the history a bit more it has inspired my wife to visit bundoran, time allowing sometime very soon.