Maguire/McGuire

Barbara,

Kinnally is the name of an RC parish.  Though more commonly called Kinawley now.  (Pronounced the same).

Kinnally RC parish records are on-line on the National Library site but unfortunately they don’t start till 1835. No records were kept before that.

http://kinawleykillesherparish.com

Thank you, which of the four churches would they most likely have attended between 1800-1840? We hope to visit the area in 2019. 

I am also looking for Owen Tegart (Taggaert, McTeggart etc) born 1800.   He died between 1838-1847.   He was married to Marquerite Maguire around 1828.

He is a sister to Patrick Maguire.  Records indicate he was from Kinnally.  Is that a town or village?

I really appreciate the assistance.

Barbara

Barbara,

Without knowing where in the parish the family actually lived, I can’t tell you which church they may have used. Possibly worth checking whether all the 4 churches there today existed in the first half of the 1800s. That might eliminate one or two. Part of the parish is in Co. Fermanagh and part in Co. Cavan. If you know that your ancestors lived in Fermanagh you may be able to discount the churches in the Cavan part of the parish, or vice versa.

Kinnaly/Kinawley is the name of a parish. So it’s mostly agricultural land, perhaps 40 square miles, with one or two small villages scattered across it. Swanlinbar is probably the largest town in the parish.

Regarding Owen Taggart, statutory death registration only started in Ireland in 1864, so you won’t get a death certificate for him.  And since the RC church did not routinely keep burial records, it’s unlikely there will be any record of his death in the period 1838-1847. Likewise his baptism and marriage are before the start of records for Kinawley parish, so again there may be no record of those events either. You could try searching graveyards for a gravestone but not many people could afford gravestones in the 1800s and most were buried without one.

The tithe applotment records for Kinawley (c 1830) have not survived and in short there are probably no records from the first half of the 1800s which might list this family. Maguire is the most common surname in Fermanagh and that won’t help either. 

Part of the 1821 census for the Cavan part of Kinawley parish has survived. There are no Taggart households in it, so that points towards your family having been in the Fermanagh part. Sadly that census has been destroyed but at least it tells you which part of the parish they probably lived.

Looking at the 1901 census of Fermanagh there were not many Taggart/McTaggart households in it. If you discount the ones born outside Fermanagh, there were only about 3 families. One Church of England family in Edenticromman and 2 RC families in Drumageever and Drumcramph. None in the parish of Kinawley, so it looks as though your family had died out or left that area by 1901.

Thank you. Your information was very helpful. I have not had any luck finding Tegart’s using DNA.  I am not surprised no records exist. 

I really appreciate your time.     Sincerely, Barbara