1878 Alexander Stewart

Just one Alexander Stewart birth in Omagh in 1878. Oct ? Dec 1879 Vol 2, page 250.

You can order a photocopy from GRO Roscommon for ?4 per certificate. Put the place, year, quarter (where there is one), volume & page number on the application form (anywhere). http://www.groireland.ie/ You have to post or fax the form to them but they will e-mail the copy certificate to you if you wish. Put ?please e-mail to?..? clearly on the top of the form.

Assuming it?s the right cert, you?ll get the mother?s maiden name. (I have looked for an Alexr St marriage to a Susan in the period 1860 ? 1878 but cannot immediately see one. The maiden name would help.)

We have seen that cert at GRO Roscommon sadly its not him.

We have found him in a boarding house in Creeslough Co Donegal in the 1901 census.

We think he might have worked on the Great Western Railway as a stonemmason.

From there he moved to Tuam Co Galway and married Julia Hare

in the 1911 census they reside at Tubberjarlath rd Tuam and have three children.

I am not convinced the Alexander Stewart you have found in the 1901 is the same person who appears in the 1911 census in Tuam. If you look at the 1901 census, that Alexander was born in Co Donegal, not Omagh, and he was also Church of Ireland. (There?s a suitable birth in Millford, Donegal in Oct ? Dec 1881 that fits with his age in the 1901 census.) Whereas the one in the 1911 census in Tuam is RC and born in Co Tyrone. I think the one in Donegal is a completely different person. If you cannot find your Alexander in the 1901 Irish census then he may well have been out of the country.

You say he may have worked for the Great Western Railway (GWR). Do you mean the GWR in England or the MGWR in Ireland? If the English GWR, that might explain his absence from the 1901 Irish census. So you might then search the 1901 English census for him.  

How sure are you that your Alexander was born in Omagh? What?s the source for that information? If you are sure he was born there, then you could check the Omagh RC parish records for his birth. They don?t appear to be on-line anywhere but there is a copy in PRONI, Belfast which covers the approx years of his birth. There will also be a copy in the National Library in Dublin. (And the originals should be with the parish).