hi friends! hoping i can get some help... i keep running into walls! Thomas Malone (1838-1917) married Nov 1866 to Catherine Reilly in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland. I found the ML, and got both fathers names, Patrick Malone and George Reilly. Any chance I can get help with finding birth certs/registers? Please?
Friday 4th Oct 2019, 01:29AM
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Hello, I looked at the marriage registration and it raises questions, the marriage took place in Killaney Church (possibly brides church, more later) this appears to me looking at it to be in the registration district of Ardee, am assuming they may have returned to Dundalk and registered there. The addresses given are also an issue, Catherines address is given as Mullameen to me, there is a Mulleelan in Ardee, the mans address is also difficult to decipher but may also be in Ardee, you can see the various townlands here https://www.townlands.ie/louth/
I think I found Catherine's birth on Roots Ireland, here
Name: Cath Reilly Date of Birth:
Date of Baptism: 22-Dec-1839
Address: Parish/District: ARDEE
Gender: Unknown County Co. Louth
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Father: George Reilly Mother: Mary Lynch
Informant 1: John Ferrall
There are other Catherine Reilly's born in Louth but nearer Drogheda, as for Thomas Malone I can find none with father Patrick around 1838, the only possible one is born in Cooley parish in 1829, Cooley is north of Dundalk and to the east along the Cooley Penisula, the US former vice President Joe Biden has ancestry from here. This is my possible birth on Roots, I find on Roots that Patt does not return when you enter Pat or Patrick, this is the one I found, there are a lot of Thomas Malones born around the time but not father Patrick,
Name: Thomas Malone
Date of Baptism: 13-Jan-1829
Address: Castlecarragh Parish/District: COOLEY
Gender: Unknown County Co. Louth
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Father: Patt Malone Mother: Rose Malone
Informant 1: James McGahan
Informant 2: Betty Clarke
There is a site on Cooley people here https://www.carlingfordpeople.ie/ and a site on Louth http://jbhall.clahs.ie/
Interesting book and film set around Ardee called Wild Goose Lodge Murders, film on Netflix. Also article on 2nd site above.
Feel free to follow up on the query, the registers are https://registers.nli.ie/ You can search by month and may find the Malone marriage pre 1829 but you will be lucky.
Regards
Pat
St Peters Louth, IrelandXO Volunteer