May Cronin born 1899

Are you sure that May's birth was in 1899, I could not find a birth record to match with Catherine Body as her mother. The nearest cert is as below ie 1869.

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The same couple had another daughter Mary Anne in March 1864, presumably this child died and the second child above is so named.

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Do you have the names of any of her siblings? dates? could Bartley/Bartholomew have married more than once? strange that with so many children I am not finding records.  If May was in any industrial school in Galway than her life would have been miserable and cruel, the industrial schools were appalling , cruel , bleak places, that is the sad reality and legacy of how children were treated in that time.

1911 Census in County Galway

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In this census , Mary is 13 years old and living at home, Barthley and Catherine are married 20 years and eleven of their twelve children survived.

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Here's a birth for James Francis Cronin in 1909 in Newford, near Athenry that seems to be the family in Ballygarraun in 1911. Parents were Bartley Cronin & Kate Kerr.  So I wonder if Catherine’s maiden name was Kerr not Body.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1909/01589/1639139.pdf

Also Florence Elizabeth’s birth in Roscommon in 1903 where again the mother’s maiden name was Kerr.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_retur…