O'Shea from Callan

There's a good match for Bridget's birth on the BMD Index, registered in the last quarter of 1905 in Callan registration district. The full index references are as follows :

Name : Bridget Mary Shea
Event Type : Birth
Quarter and Year : Oct-Dec 1905
Registration District : Callan
Volume 4 / Page 429

You can use these references to order a research cert which would provide further details to help your search - e.g. date and more detailed place of birth for Bridget,mother's maiden name, father's occupation etc. Download the order form for certs from this link. Let me know if you need more details on how to order certs..

In 1911 Bridget seems to be living with a Neary family at Green St., Callan, where she is shown as age 6 and a step-daughter to the head of household Edward Neary, a Publican and Farmer. Edward's wife is Elizabeth, and the couple have recorded a barely legible 'under one' in the years married column on the form... I'll have a search for possible references..

Based on marriage index references the following looks to be the Index references for Elizabeth's marriage to Edward/Edmond in 1904 :

Name:     Elizabeth O'Shea
Quarter and Year :     Oct-Nov-Dec 1910
Registration district:     Callan
Volume:     4 Page :     212

One of the cross-matches, i.e. same index references, is an Edmond Neary. Also appearing with the same references is an Elizabeth Dooley, and so likely Elizabeth's true maiden name. (widows were often indexed under both their maiden name and their surname from the previous marriage)

Following back the search there's this likely index match for Thomas and Elizabeth in 1904.

Name:     Elizabeth Dooley
Quarter ad Year :  Oct-Dec 1904
Registration district:     Callan
Volume:     4 / Page :     199

One of the possible grooms is a Thomas Shea, so a possible cross-match for Elizabeth. If this marriage is correct, then the cert should show father's names etc to help trace Thomas back further..

Dont know if you already have details for the death of Thomas, here are the likely index references for his death based on the clues you mentioned :

Name : Thomas Shea
Event Type : Death
Quarter and Year : Oct-Dec 1905
Registration District: Callan
Reported Age 30 (est. year of birth 1875)
Volume 4 / Page 295

from the Probate Calendar on the National Archives website - Thomas was a farmer, and he died on the 3rd Oct 1905. It's an administration, so there was no will, and probate was granted to his widow Elizabeth as executrix on the 29th November the same year.

see Thomas Shea, died 1905

Assuming Edward and Elizabeth remained in or near Callan, then the best matches on the BMD Index for their deaths of seem to be the following :

Name     Edmond Neary
Event Type     Death
Quarter and Year     Jan - Mar 1953
Registration District     Callan
Reported Age   70  (est. year of birth 1883)
Volume  4 / Page   292

Name  Elizabeth Neary
Event Type   Death
Quarter and Year : Jul-Sep 1955
Registration District : Callan
Reported Age : 74 (est. year of birth 1881)
Volume  4 / Page 251

A possible match for that Edmond appears on the 1955 probate calendar, his residence given as Kilmoganny, and date of death 17 Jan 1953. There's no occupation or mention of Elizabeth, and probate was grated to a Mary Harrington M.W. (Kilmaganny is the name of a town located about 14km south-east of Callan town)

Couple of headstone records in Callan cemetery;

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Cistie O Shea; Kilbride; 11/11/1996 (84)

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John Croke; West St; 1944

wife-Ellen (nee O Shea); 27/10/1947

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John Dunne; Collins Park; 1958

wife-Mary (nee Fennelly) 1950

son-Jackie Dunne; 1981

wife-Mary (nee O Shea) 11/3/1975

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Timothy O Shea; Kilbride; 5/4/1949  (34)

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James Kennedy; Tinnamona; 1986

wife-Ellen (nee O Shea); 29/9/1994 (83)

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Jack Mc Donald

www.genealogylaois.com

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