Looking for a Great Uncle and two Aunts

Graham:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

I tried to find a civil death record for Mary Dolan, your great-grandmother since I thought possibly that she may have looked after your father and his siblings until your grandfather came back from the war. No luck with a good death record and also did not find a marriage record for Mary Anne. I assume you are using www.irishgenealogy.ie when you are searching for death and marriage records.

Roger McDonnell 

Roger:

Many thanks for trying to help me trace Mary Anne Dolan.

Yes, I have been using the irishgenealogy site and have found it extremely helpful.

My great grandmother Mary could have looked after my father and my aunt and uncle. I'm fairly sure she died at Brakenagh? Ballinasloe, 21/3/1927, at her son Stephens' house. My grandmother Jane died at her parents home in Kiltormer in 1918, so it's possible that the young family were staying there. I suppose its also possibe that Mary Anne was not married at the time and I will not get to know who was living where, after 1911, until the publication of the next Irish Census. Do you know when this will be?

Meantime, will keep trying. Are there any other sites you think might help? I am a member of MyHeritage but, so far, have not found it very useful.

Once again thankyou for your very prompt response.

Best regards. GrahamD.

Hi Graham,

John Dolan appears on UK army records available on FOLD3:

Name: John Dolan

Age: 18

Birth Date: abt 1887

Birth Place: Aughrim, Galway, Ireland

Service Start Year: 1905

Regiment: The Connaught Rangers

Regimental Number: 8493

Attestation Paper: y

Regards

Graham:

The next Irish census is the 1926 census. It will be released in early 1927 unless new legislation is passed moving up the release date.

Roger

Gerard

Irish civil records give John Dolan's birth date as 29/7/1889, so he would be barely 16 when joining up. Was that possible?   Another possibility is that he lied about his age - I think that was quite common in the early 20th C. My mother did it in the 1930's!

I am encouraged by this however, as my grandfather (John's brother) also joined the Connaught Rangers in Athlone in 1916. Thank you so much, I will look into it further.  

Roger

Many thanks for the next census publication date.

Best regards 

Graham

Hi Graham

I have family from Aughrim too and while I cannot help you find the Dolans, I found these sites useful when trying to find information on my relatives who fought in world war 1.  http://connaughtrangersassoc.com/research/ and http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/  Unfortunately for us a lot of records were moved from Ireland to London after the Free State was set up. These were bombed and destroyed by fire in the second world war. That being said I found my great great uncle so there is still hope.  The guys on the forum couldn't have been more helpful to me.   Might be worth a shot for you :-)  All those who served for long enough got medals.    

I also found while researching my relatives (MCGanns/Glynns/Callaghans) was that many of those who joined in 1916 were with the Royal Irish Constabulary so that may be another avenue to check into. 

Good luck :-) 

Rach

Many thanks for the advice.

I have most of my grandfather's service record from Ancestry.co.uk via my local library, but I still can't identify John Dolan using the birth record I have or service number suggested by Gerard.

I will try the Rangers Assoc. and the forum you suggested. 

I am much indebted and thankful for all the replies I have had so far.

Best regards.

Graham

This is pretty cool, I'll follow up often! https://coloring-pages.io

Thank you great uncle and two aunts