Searching for 2nd Great Grand parents Francis and Margaret

Hi Daniel

There are 2 church marriage records and 2 civil marriage records for Francis & Margaret on www.rootsireland.ie/ (subscription site) 2 are Derry & 2 Tyrone

http://Date of Marriage: 30-Jan-1881 Parish / District: MONEYMORE (RG) County: Co. Derry Husband Wife Name: Francis Donaghey Margaret McCann Address: Creeve Dunmore Denomination: Registrar District Registrar District Occupation: FARMER Age: Status: Bachelor (Previously unmarried) Spinster (Previously unmarried) Husband's Father Wife's Father Name: John Donaghey Michael McCann

http://Date of Marriage: 30-Jan-1881 Parish / District: LISSAN County: Co. Derry Husband Wife Name: Francis Donaghy Margaret McCann Address: Crieve Dunmore Denomination: Roman Catholic Roman Catholic

http://Date of Marriage: 30-Jan-1881 Parish / District: COOKSTOWN County: TYRONE Husband Wife Name: Francis Donaghy Margaret McCann Address: Creive Dunmore Occupation: FARMER Age: 22 20 Status: Bachelor (Previously unmarried) Spinster (Previously unmarried) Husband's Father Wife's Father Name: John Donaghy Michael McCann Address: Occupation: FARMER FARMER

http://Date of Marriage: 30-Jan-1881 Parish / District: LISSAN County: TYRONE Husband Wife Name: Francis Donaghy Margaret McCann Address: Crieve Dunmore

I'm not a NI expert but perhaps the parishes were counted in both counties?

Looks like the fathers were John Donaghy & Michael McCann

The records don't cut & paste well but looks like their ages are 22 & 20 so born 1858 & 1860.

Here's a likely birth record for each:

http://Name: Francis Donaghy Date of Birth: Date of Baptism: 07-Dec-1860 Address: Creevagh Parish/District: DONAGHMORE Gender: Unknown County TYRONE Father: John Donaghy Mother: Brigid Donaghy

http://Name: Margaret McCann Date of Birth: Date of Baptism: 29-Jul-1861 Address: Letteran Parish/District: LISSAN Gender: Unknown County TYRONE Father: Michael McCann Mother: Margaret Corr

You might like to subscribe for a short while to look for the parents' marriages; the records MAY have their parnets' names to help you keep working back.

You may also try free sites such as Griffiths Valuation, the Tithe Applotments & the earlier censuses.

Col

I can confirm that the date of the marriage was 30.1.1881. Registered in Cookstown. You can view certificates on-line on the GRONI website, using the ?search registrations? option:

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk

(You will need to open an account and buy some credits. It costs ?2 to a view a certificate). The marriage certificate should give you both parties father?s names.

The townland where Frances was farming in 1901 was Dunmore (which is in the Lissan Lower electoral district).

Looking at the revaluation records for Dunmore, I can see that an Edward Donaghy had plot 43 in the townland until 1898. Francis? name appears against some land on plot 41 (11 acres) but no house is shown. Then in 1910 he appears taking over plot 40 which is a farmhouse and 20 acres. So I am not sure where he was living prior to that. Perhaps residing with Edward?

http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/val12b.htm

Plot 40 today is on Dunmore Lane, by Clagan bridge, off the Lough Fea road. It?s beside the little river that runs down the glen from Lough Fea. Looking at the property on google earth, there?s a farm there today on what was plot 41, though whether the buildings are original are hard to tell as the image isn?t very high quality.