Brian, do you see any clues to connect with this Thomas Power family, please? :--
JUNE 28th 1869 MARY POWER from QUERRIN { eldest child }
Parents: here as Tom , THOMAS POWER & MARGARET GRIFFIN
Sponsor: Mrs GRIFFIN Priest: Fr Patrick White
[ See 4 younger siblings to Mary baptised in this Register. This family, [not their Querrin cousins], (through John(Jack) & his younger brother Stephen Power, who also had sisters Margaret, Anne/Annie & an assorted 8 or 9 more siblings, + twin boys who both quickly died c.1883) were later connected with the Imperial China Customs Service ; not the Shanghai Municipal Police. Refer to Stephen’s #1-son Brian’s error-ridden & false autobiography: “The Ford of Heaven, Tientsin, China”.
Brian’s younger brother, Desmond Power in Canada wrote a much more comprehensive family history on www.SCRIBD.com
Stephen & John(Jack) also had a 1st-cousin in Tientsin / Tianjan – Tommy Bonfil who died there around XMAS 1914. = Thomas Bonfil-Power / Tom Bonfield-Power ? ]
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[ -- Parents’ marriage copied to here for research :--- Mary is their 1st child ?
M#0669 JANUARY 29th 1868 THOMAS POWER from QUERRIN
married to MARGARET GRIFFIN from Querrin as Ditto
Witnesses: ?Commander William Borough & Louisa Borough. [ These witnesses are related to the Randal Borough, Gents., famous Protestant landowners of Querrin. ]
Priest: Revd Thomas McMahon ?
[ See the previous marriage notes of earlier this day. The ‘Randal Borough’ family were landowning aristocracy, ‘Gents’ of Querrin, but also intermarried with local RC tenants. ]
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#2750 APRIL 12th 1871 here as Pat , Patrick POWER from QUERRIN
Parents: THOMAS POWER & MARGARET GRIFFIN
Sponsor: BRIDGET McMAHON Priest: M M ?
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#3073 JANUARY 14th 1873 JOHANNA POWER from QUERRIN
Parents: THOMAS POWER & MARGARET GRIFFIN
Sponsor: BRIDGET McMAHON Priest: Revd D Smyth
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#3387 November 25th 1874 JOHN (Jack) POWER from QUERRIN { China Customs }
Parents: here as Tom , THOMAS POWER & MARGARET GRIFFIN
Sponsor: BRIDGET POWER Priest: Revd Fr J O’Neill ?
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Also #3639 Edmond on July 23rd 1876, …. & 9 or 10 more.
[ Also, see Thomas aged 56 and Margaret aged 50, & Anne/Annie in the 1901 &/or 1911 Querrin Censuses. ]
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