Sister Mary of St. Margaret (born 1869) - seeking information

Hi Jane

I had a look at the Paulstown baptisms for Mary Flood on ww.rootsireland.ie/ and found this one:

Name:Mary FloodDate of Birth:
Date of Baptism:25-Nov-1866Address:JordanstownParish/District:PAULSTOWNGender:FemaleCountyCo. Kilkenny
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:William FloodMother:Mary KellyOccupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:Patt Flood Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:Alicia Wheatley

It's the only Paulstown one that's close to 1869 - next is 1858

You'll notice that the 2nd Informant is Wheatley - could this be Whitely or a coincidence?

Unfortunately the site only has C of I records for Shankill! There are none in the Nat Librar's RC registers either.

Here are the other children of this Mary's parents:

Church BaptismFloodJohn1865Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodMary1866Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodBridget1868Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodAnastatia1870Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodMichael1872Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodJames1873Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodCatherine1875Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodCharles1877Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodAnne1879Co. Kilkenny
Church BaptismFloodPatrick1883Co. Kilkenny

Given the info you gave, would the Marys have been cousins?

This however is the only marriage record for Whitely and Flood in Kilkenny:

Date of Marriage:20-Oct-1892
Parish / District:GOWRAN
County:Co. Kilkenny
Husband:PatrickWhitely Address:Viewmount Denomination:Civil Parish Occupation:STEWARD Age 27 WIDOWER
Wife: MaryFlood Jordanstown  / District Civil Parish / Spinster (Previously unmarried)
Husband's Father William Whitely Occupation:FARMER
Wife's FatherWilliamFlood FARMER
Husband's Mother
Wife's MotherName:Not RecordedNot Recorded
Not RecordedNot RecordedAddress:
Denomination:
Occupation:
Witness 1ThomasWhitely
Witness 2Name:BridgetFlood
Notes:

[HUSBAND'S AGE GIVEN AS FULL AGE] (E) (HUSBAND'S NAME GIVEN AS PAT)

I wonder whether the fact that he was a widower has any bearing? Could Mary 1 have been from his first marriage?

Records relating to the lives of priests and/or nuns in the Catholic church are to be found primarily in two sources. The Irish Catholic Directory (published annually since 1836) and the published list Maynooth Students & Ordinations Index 1795-1982 by Patrick J. Hamell (Maynooth: no date) covering the first 100 years of those who entered the seminary at Maynooth.

Locating Catholic Records

Original parish registers are in local custody. Sometimes a priest will search parish records for you. Names, addresses, and parishes of priests are listed in the Irish Catholic Directory and Diary.

The National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin holds filmed copies of almost all pre-1880 parish records--the largest collection of Roman catholic parish registers (with about 98% parish coverage for the whole country). In 2015 these microfilms were digitalized and put online at their website, and later on Ancestry and FindMyPast.

Filmed copies of pre-1880 parish registers for Northern Ireland are also kept by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

I'm no expert in R C records but found the above which might be a start

Col