Looking for Ancestors

Hello Doreen, I am looking at unanswered queries and see you address a Tom, as you did not continue the original thread he would not be notified of this posting and may not have seen it.

The "O" in a name is a movable feast, it is in and out of my own name as I go back, apparently it was dying out and only 5% of names had kept it to famine times but there was a rise in nationalism after the famine and Fenian rebellion of 1861 etc So rule nothing out for the lack or inclusion of the "O".

I had a look at Griffiths Valuation and see a few Tobins in Caher, however there is an Ellen Tobin who appears to own a lot of land and also an address as Tobins Lane. https://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=name… There are 6 Donnell entries and 51 under O'Donnell and a few Johns' could be the same person but unlikely. 

I located the baptism you mention and looked for siblings but the 3 I found were to a mother Johanna and Judith, there are also a number of marriages of a Donnell etc to a Tobin in |Tipperary but only the one baptism with a mother M Tobin, in 1850 as you state so it likely there is no other sibling, possible mother died, and he married a sister but only two marriages I looked at were in 1844 to a Johanna and in 1855 to a Judith but as I say a number of other marriages of a Donnell to a Tobin in this time so the Tobin in the census could be any of them.

As the query is so old I am not listing all the marriages etc but if you are still interested let me know. Here is a site that shows the various parishes, the 1844 marriage is in Ballylooby next to Caher or Cahir and marriage usually in brides parish.

https://registers.nli.ie/

Regards

Pat