Smyth Family [Associated Family Names Mallen / Potential Assoc'n to McDermott, Cherry, Nugent, Linn]

Karen:

I don't know if you are using the subscription site Roots Ireland for the Dunshauglin RC records but they appear to have a gap in records from 1833-1849 which likely covers when Jane Smyth was baptized if she was baptized in that parish. However, the parish register  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0922  on the NLI site appears to have records from 1789 until January 1843 and then there is a six year gap and records resume in 1849. I suggest you scan the parish register for a possible record for your ancestor.

Roger McDonnell

Hi Roger,

Thank you for your time responding and your suggestion.  I scanned 3 years each way around 1836 at the NLI and could not find her.  She could be there and I just didn't see it.  The writing is so challenging.  If only the historians knew we would be reading the records so carefully 185 years later and would print instead of write in cursive!  Jane Elizabeth's husband Denis Mallen (I have yet to find his birth record either) was supposed to have come from Dungannon, Tyrone, and further back, originally the family was suspected to have been from Armagh.  I have some clues that several families in our tree were originally from the North migrated southward in the early 1800s.  Perhaps Jane was born in in Northern Ireland or somewhere along the way.  It is a huge brick wall for our family.  I am hoping to come across someone with a well developed tree one day...