Thomas Mahood

Hi SLL,

The marriage record is on www.rootsireland.ie/:

Date of Marriage:25-Feb-1850
Parish / District:BANBRIDGE
County:Co. Down
Husband Thomas Mahood Banbridge Denomination:Civil Parish LABOURER Full Age (Over 21)Status:Bachelor (Previously unmarried)
Wife Margaret Brady Address:Banbridge Civil Parish / District Age:Full Age (Over 21) Spinster (Previously unmarried)
Husband's Father James Mahood Occupation WEAVER
Wife's Father John Brady Occupation:WEAVER
Witness 1 Name:William Mcgaffin
Witness 2 Margaret Mcgaffin

Notes:

Church: BANBRIDGE Civil
BY CERTIFICATE REG J SCOTT.

I couldn't find him in the irish Censuses to get an address

Possible baptism record:

Name:Thomas MahoodDate of Birth:05-Jan-1823
Date of Baptism:19-Jan-1823Address:CoolnacranParish/District:AghadergGender:
CountyCo. Down
Denomination:Church Of Ireland
Father:James MahoodMother:Nancy

Couldn't find marriage of James & Nancy or siblings of Thomas

No luck with Margaret's baptism in Down but there are lots with father John around her probable birth year in other counties.

Griffiths Valuation (free online) has the following addresses:

Family Name 1MAHOODForename 1THOMAS

LandlordFamily Name 2DOWNSHIREForename 2MARQUIS OF

LocationCountyDOWNBaronyIVEAGH, LOWER, LOWER HALFUnion

LISBURNParishDROMORETownlandLISTULLYCURRANPlace NameLISTULLYCURRAN

Place TypeTOWNLAND

Publication DetailsPosition on Page34Printing Date1863Act15&16Sheet Number20,21Map Reference36;37

There is also a James at the same address:

Family Name 1MAHOODForename 1JAMESLandlordFamily Name 2DOWNSHIREForename 2MARQUIS OFLocationCountyDOWNBaronyIVEAGH, LOWER, LOWER HALFUnionLISBURNParishDROMORETownlandLISTULLYCURRANPlace NameLISTULLYCURRANPlace TypeTOWNLANDPublication DetailsPosition on Page11Printing Date1863Act15&16Sheet Number20,21Map Reference20

Margaret's father perhaps:

Family Name 1BRADYForename 1JOHNLandlordFamily Name 2TYRRELLForename 2GEORGELocationCountyDOWNBaronyIVEAGH, UPPER (UPPER HALF)UnionBANBRIDGEParishSEAPATRICKTownlandBALLYVALLYPlace NameCHIEF'S ROWTownBANBRIDGEPlace TypeOTHERPublication DetailsPosition on Page24Printing Date1863Act15&16Sheet Number
Map Reference129 16

Col

This is very helpful. 

I found James and Thomas in census at Seapatrick Parish but now I’m trying to find whereabouts they lived or where any of them are buried. It’s overwhelming! 

Statutory birth registration started in Ireland in 1864 and I found 5 births for children to Thomas and Margret between 1864 and 1873.

Hanna 24.8.1864; Jane 1.1.1867; Agnes 25.9.1868; Anne 30.6.1871 & Louis 10.12.1873. The address on the ones I looked at was just Banbridge. Occupation weaver. So the family lived in the town somewhere.

Jane appears to have married William Hillis in the Church of Ireland in 1897, so that’s probably the Mahood family church. (Tradition being to marry in the bride’s church).

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1896/10504/5825772.pdf

William Hillis was a widower. Here’s the family in 1901 (some children by his previous marriage):

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Pottinger/Chamberlain_Street/1216369/

Family in 1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Windsor_Ward/Seymour_Street/190240/

Regarding where the Mahood family are buried, that may be tricky. If they were long established in Banbridge then churchyards in that area is the obvious place to start, starting with the Church of Ireland. However bear in mind that weavers usually weren’t very well off and so probably couldn’t afford a gravestone, so they may be in an unmarked grave(s).

Thomas Mahood & Margaret Brady & (10) childrem emigrated to Canada on 10 August 1875 onboard the Phoenician vessel and arrived in Quebec.  They eventually ended up in Muskoka Ontario and their surname was also spelled as MAYHOOD in some records.  Thomas died 14 June 1901 in Muskoka and  Margaret died 8 April 1920 in Vancouver British Columbia.  You can find more details on www.familysearch.com