I am hoping that maybe anyone has info on my great great grandmother. Her name was Mary Margaret Sexton. She was born 25 Mar 1851 in Kilgarvan parish. She was baptized on 24 Mar 1874. Her sponsors were Joe and Ellen Touhy. Mary immigrated the following month to America.
Other Sexton names include:
James Sexton
Thomas Laurence born 22 Mar 1881 Ballina, Mayo
Anne Elizabeth born 1881 Killala, Mayo
Alice born Sept 1883 in Ballinrobe
Ellen Agnes Sexton
If anyone has any info at all, I'd be happy to hear what you know.
Thank you...
Norm
Greatlefty
Saturday 2nd Nov 2013, 12:24AMMessage Board Replies
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Norm:
Just to clarify, Mary Margaret was baptized at age 23?
I looked at the 1901 census and there were only three Sextons in all of Mayo. None of the names match your information.
Roger McDonnell
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Ballina_Urban/Hill_Street/1571844/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Castlebar_Urban/Eillison_Street/1584283/
Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
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Hi Norm,
I searched www.rootsireland.ie/ for Mary Sexton born in Mayo 1851 without success but searched without her first name and got Margaret born 1852
It costs to view records on rootsireland but the record will have the father's name and the parish
There are 16 Sextons born/baptised 1851 + - 20 yearsin Mayo so you might want to have a look at some of those
Col
ColCaff, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
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Hi
You could also look at Sligo records
Bonniconlon is part of Kilgarvan, and that is outside Ballina on the Sligo side.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlmayo2/kilgarvan_cp_characteristics.html
Up to 1898 the part of Ballina town over the North of the River e.g. Ardnaree, was regarded as being in Sligo.
On this site (a really good one for North Mayo) it has a Sexton Buried outside Ballina
http://goldenlangan.com/graves-cp.html
This site shows Sextons in Sligo...http://www.irishgraveyards.ie/search.php?yardid=0&lastname=Sexton&firstname=&address=&county=Sligo&month=&year=
On the Griffiths Valuations it also just shows Sextons in Sligo, and none in Mayo