Marriage Records

Patt,

This looks to be your family in 1901.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Claudy/Glenone/1542488/

Henry died 7.10.1883 aged 75. His son John was the informant. Henry junior was born 20.2.1872 at Glenone. You can see those certificates free on the irishgenealogy site.

The 1901 census confirms Isabella was born in Co. Antrim. I expect you will be aware that Glenone is on the Derry bank of the Bann and across the river is Portglenone which is in Co. Antrim. Tradition was to marry in the bride’s parish. Farmers usually married someone who lived nearby as they weren’t in a position to travel very far when courting as they were needed on the farm. So my guess would be that Isabella came from Portglenone. Unfortunately that RC parish has no records earlier than 1864. Consequently if Henry & Isabella married there c1855, no documentary record is likely to exist.

I looked for marriages in the Magherafelt area up to 1920 for Patrick, John, Isabella & Henry but didn’t find any. 

2 probate abstracts from the PRONI wills site:

Probate of the Will of Isabella Molloy late of Glenone Portglenone County Londonderry Widow who died 15 August 1907 granted at Londonderry to Henry Molloy Farmer.

Molloy Henry of Glenone Portglenone county Londonderry farmer died 2 April 1948 at Magherafelt District Hospital Magherafelt Probate Belfast 30 June to James Cassidy farmer and Thomas J. Rankin auctioneer. Effects £221 5s.

The wills themselves are not on-line. PRONI should have them. You could either pay PRONI to copy them or get a researcher to do that for you. The wills might give details of relatives that you do not currently have.

Oh wow!  Thank you so much.  I had some of this info, but not all of it.  I can't find where Isabella was buried.  Henry was buried in Augnahoy Cemetery.  I have visited there.  Could his wife, Isabella, have been buried in the same grave site?  Sometimes in the US they would do that or bury a parent with a child.  I just wondered.

The son, Henry, was the last one remaining in Ireland.  Another question, you said I could go to the irishgeneology site for free.  Do you know the name of the site? 

Thank you again for your efforts and all the great information you sent!

Sincerely ,

USA Patt

USA Patt,

I should think Isabella will be buried beside her husband. Just that no-one got around to inscribing her name on his gravestone. Roman Catholics generally didn’t keep burial records, and so confirming that may prove difficult.

Here’s the irishgenealogy site. Click on civil records if you want to search for the births I mentioned: https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/