Robert Dagg/Lucinda Wilson

Hi Noeline,

Here's the marriage record from www.rootsireland.ie/ which has another parish name for you:

Date of Marriage:11-Oct-1849
Parish / District:PORTNASHANGAN
County:Co. Westmeath
Husband
WifeName:RobertDagg
LucindaWilson

There is annoyingly little info on the record; marriages usually took place in the bride's home parish.

No luck in the Irish Census of 1841 in which there are Westmenath records - no mention of either surname! Westmeath does not appear in the 1851.

Better luck in Griffiths Valuation (free at http://www.askaboutireland.ie/) which has 3 Robert Daggs in Westmeath in 1854 in Lackan (Townland Leny , Parish Lackan) Leny (Place Name, Parish & Townland all Leny) and Partnashangan (Parish Portnashangan, Townland & Place Name Ballynagal)

Col

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The marriage is included in civil records so should include father's names, residences for the bride and groom etc.

Portnashanagh is the name of a Church of Ireland Parish in Co. Westmeath, located near Lough Owel on the road between Mullingar and Bunbrosna. Leny is a seperate parish adjacent to Portnashanagh to the North West.

p.s. the Church of Ireland Church for the Parish union of Portlemon and Portshangan was located in Ballynagall townland - see attached extract from c1840 OSI map.

Thank you for the map and for the information. It makes sense now as I couldnt find anything on Leny Parish, although it is mentioned in some of the family notes I have.

Hi Noeline

The following websites are helpful for orientation regarding civil parishes:

Civil Parish of Leny (townlands.ie)  where you can find a handy list of all the adjacent parishes and townlands 

Civil Parish of Leny (logainm.ie)  where you can view a list of variations of a place name  (esp. when a renaming occurred)

Parish of Leny maps & records (johngrenham.ie) a handy list of resources

And Geohive for viewing old and modern day Ordnance Survey maps

Thanks Rua for your help.

It is great having people on site that know where to get information from.

Much appreciated.

We are coming to Ireland in September to check out my Dagg ancestry. I am delighted to have received information from Ireland Reaching Out regarding whereabouts they lived and property they owned. as we are traveling to Ireland in a few weeks we would like some other places of interest in the area that we could visit.  We will be traveling from Dublin to Westmeath and possibly Longford, then on to Galway for a couple of days, then we will make our way to Cork and then Wexford where we complete our 6 days in Ireland and go by ferry to Fishguard, Wales.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I recently came across some (possible) family notes that indicated our Robert David Dagg born 1826 was born in Carlow but have no records to back that up. His mother was Dorothea Kendrick and father Robert Dagg.  It would be awesome if there is anything to back up this new information.

Thanks in advance.

Noeline Hewitt