Sloan/ Gracey

Pauline,

What are the bride & grooms townlands on the marriage certificate? That should make it easier to trace them.

Elwyn

 hello Elwyn thank you for replying, Michael and Catherine were married on the 21st December 1869  i have the marrige cert in front of me and  the marriage was solemnized in the register office of Newry and residence at the time was Shanroe parish of Forkhill for both of them. Michael was 30yrs @Catherine was 22yrs according to the cert, Michael was a Farmer as was both their fathers Denis sloan ( dead ) and Charles ( alive ) witnesses are Michael Caghey and James ? Caghey. hope this helps thank you Pauline

Pauline,

Shanroe is the townland where they both lived (590 acres). (The parish is Forkhill).

I looked in the Revaluation records to see if I could locate either family. (Generally with farmers they are listed). However on this occasion I could not find either family. Perhaps they weren?t there very long. The only link I can see is this Probate reference for James Gracey who died intestate:

Full Abstract :

Administration of the estate of James Gracey late of Glebe Shanroe County Armagh Farmer who died 25 June 1897 at Newry County Down granted at Armagh to Mary Gracey the Widow.             Effects ?26

This might be Mary Gracey, the widow, in 1901:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Armagh/Lurgan_Urban/Edward_Street/1025123/

There?s no Sloan or Gracey families in Shanroe in the 1901 census.

Elwyn

Thank you Elwyn for your time, i know my Sloan's came to Barrow-in-Furness in about 1878 so i think you are right they might have only been there a little while, the search goes on.

Hi peterbernardc , I am interested in your Gracey info.

My Great Grandmother  born about 1866 was a Catherine Gracey daughter of James & Mary Gracey.

She  married Thomas Bernard Madden in Belfast in 1887.

They had 2 children in  Belfast before moving to Liverpool where they had 10 other children.

Catherine  returned to Belfast before 1911 where she lived until her death in 1929.

I  have quite a few Maddens born in Barrow-in-Furness including a Peter & a  Bernard.

LGC