Hi to all! I am new and this is my first post. Thank you for reaching out.
I am in search of details for my ggm Mary Mcginley/ay. What church was she baptised. This may help me with the church for her mother, Mary Docherty born in Londonderry. I would like to find other Mcginley family members and more information about her mother, Mary Docherty. This family was RC.
Mary Mcginley/ay b 1859 Co Derry married 30 Apr 1879 Gartenhill, Glasgow to John Mcfarlane b1855 Culfeightrin, Ire. Mary lived with her parents at 30 Canal St., Glasgow. When married she lived at Port Dundas, Glasgow.
Parents: Patrick Mcginley/ay & Mary Docherty married 19 Oct 1856 Londonderry, Ire.
Siblings: John b1858, James b1864, Catherine b1865, Annie b1867 a chef(marr Robt McNabb/went to Montreal), Margaret b1870, Patrick b1872 (marr Mary Mima Hay), Wm b1875, Denis b1877
The children of Mary Mcginley & John Mcfarlane emigrated to the US in the 1920's. They settled in a beach town of southern California. The occupations were coal miners, iron miners and when they moved they worked in the oil refineries in Southern California.
Trying to find the church where Mary Mcginley was born and where her mother, Mary Docherty attended.
It is so much fun to connect across the waters. I live in California and hoping to make it to Ire in 2015. Happy days to all.
Sunday 6th Jul 2014, 03:38AM
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RC marriages weren?t included in the statutory records until 1864. Prior to that you need to rely on church records, not all of which have survived and not all of which are on-line. Searching the rootsireland site, nearest I can see is a Mary Ann Docherty who married a Patrick in 1858 in Long Tower (the main RC church in the city of Derry in the 1850s.). That?s pay to view to get the groom?s surname.
Be aware that RC records for that period don?t contain a lot of information. Often just the couples names, the date and their 2 witnesses.
If you got the date and place of the marriage from a Scottish birth certificate, then sometimes the date recorded there can be wrong. Either due to human error or because the person registering the birth adjusted the date for their own reasons.
Birth registration started in Ireland in 1864. I can see a birth registered in Londonderry for a James McGinley on 13th June 1865 whose mother?s maiden name was Dougherty. You might want to investigate that to see if it?s your family. (It?ll give you their address and other information if it is). You can view the certificate on-line for ?2 on the GRONI site:
Note: The spelling of the surnames may have changed when the family moved to Scotland. That was very common.
Ahoghill Antrim
Sunday 6th Jul 2014, 09:35AM