McNabb/Fitzpatrick

You may already be aware of this, but there are records for what appears to be that family in the Family Search database [https://www.familysearch.org].  If you create a (free) account there, you can find Robert under ID number M848-T8T, and can access the records for the others easily through his record, as you will see.  Robert and Sarah are shown with three children, born in these years:  Joseph (1864), Julia (1866), and Stephen (1868), and have further records for the families of Joseph and Stephen after they apparently emigrated to Massachusetts (where it appears that they each married women named Mary Walsh).

The site automatically locates other potentially relevant records, and right now it is offering several other records for what could be the same family, relating to another child, Margaret, born in 1880.  The mother is stated to be Sally Fitzpatrick McNabb, but Sally and Sarah were two anglicized forms which were sometimes used interchangeably for the Irish name Sorcha, and the family is stated in one of the records to have lived in “Drinkeen”, which looks like a misreading of Drumkeen.  There may also have been later children (see the townland records discussed below).

In each record, you can see the screen names of those who have created or modified the record, and can send them private messages.  The same person appears to have input all of the information (apart from one obviously relevant record which I added while I was there - so you'll see me there as kevin45sf), so you might be able to get more info by contacting that person (and perhaps also locate some relatives that way).

You can find more info about Drumkeen (Droim Caoin in Irish, meaning “gentle ridge”), at this link:

https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/clanmorris/kilcolman/caraun/drumkeen/

That site offers links to the 1901 and 1911 census records for the townland, and I noted that in the 1901 census, there was a Robert McNabb (age 67) and his wife Sarah (age 65) living in Drumkeen with two children, Robert (age 26) and James (age 23).  You can see that record here:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Caraun/Drumkeen/1…

The 1911 census shows a Sarah McNabb (then age 78) apparently living with her son Robert (then age 38) and his family (perhaps Robert had died by then), and you can see that record here:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Caraun/Drumkeen/7…

They appear to be the only McNabb families living in the townland in those census years.

The site also has a link to the Griffith’s Valuation records for the townland (mid-1800’s).  They show only a few tenants, which do not include any McNabb’s, but do show an Andrew Fitzpatrick holding two tenancies,  That might indicate that Sarah was from the townland, and perhaps Robert moved there when they married.  That would have been shortly after the Famine, and there was a fair amount of movement of people as tenancies fell vacant through death or emigration of the former tenants.

If Robert and Sarah were married in Kilcolman parish (Claremorris/Clanmorris), it should be possible to find the marriage record, since the parish records go back as far as 1806.  There are some gaps, but the whole likely period for their marriage (based on the ages of their children) is available at this link:  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/1056

If Sarah was born there, you may even be able to find her baptismal record, possibly tying her to the Andrew Fitzpatrick mentioned above.  You might even find a marriage record for Andrew, and maybe even a baptismal record, depending on the years involved. 

As it happens, I have a pair of great-grandparents who were married in Claremorris at roughly the same time, though my great-grandmother’s family lived in a townland about two miles north of Drumkeen.

Wonderful information thank you. I will follow through on all of this.

My grand uncle was Robert McNabb from drumkeen and my father is Robert McNabb , he still has the home place but no longer lives there .

Ms. Cringan’s Sarah Fitzpatrick is a Mac Giolla Phádraig Dál gCais an official Clan of Clans of Ireland, which Ms. Cringan is one of our members.