Sarah Brennan

[Coromandel]

FreeBMD
Sep Q 1874 Haslingden, Lancashire (Vol 8e Page 193)

Sarah Brennan
Emma Beaumont
William Thomas Robinson

FreeBMD shows four people on this page. The other one is a John O'Neil. Lancashire BMDs confirms that he married Sarah Brennan at Christ Church, Bacup.

[Geirgg]

I have found a death in 1880 for a Joshua McDonald age 29.
He was buried in Walton Park, Liverpool on 3 May 1880.

Is this Sarah's husband?

Yes, that is him. I got the certificate for this.

[Geirgg]

Why would you think he is two months and not two years?

[Geirgg]

No I wouldn't think so. It is her married name that is McDonald. Her maiden name is Brennan.

Thanks
Geir

[Geirgg]

Yes, that is the son:-) I also have their marriage certificate. We also found a Sarah McDonald living on her own in 1881. But we don't know where Joshua (the son) is in the 1881 census.

[Geirgg]

That could very well be them. Is Rathdrum in Dublin?

[Geirgg]

Well, I don't think so. I have found Joshua and Sarah and little Joshua in the 1871 census in Liverpool. He was born abt.1869 as far as I can see (I thinks it's years and not months, if this is the one refered to) , so I would think they married just before that (maybe in Ireland).

[Geirgg]

Hi,

All my replies just got stacked up in the end. I must have done something wrong. Sorry about that.

Thanks
Geir

[scallyhead]

Hi,

Rathdrum is in County Wicklow, south of Dublin. At that time it would have been a rural area. The Ireland Marriages, 1619 - 1898 on Family Search shows, Thomas Brennan, aged 24, married Bridget Bryan, also 24, on 25th February 1847, in Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Fathers wereThomas Brennan and Thomas Bryan.

You could try to get the certificate from the GRO in Roscommon, download the form from their website and send it off. If you only want to get a photocopy of the Marriage they charge 4 euro, or at least they did last year. Look up the reference on Family Search Civil Births and give the Year, volume and page if you find it. I have always found them more than helpful.

You could look at https://www.
rootsireland.ie/ for Sarah's baptism. It is a pay to view site, but I think they give some free pages.

The fact that Thomas and Bridget's Marriage is on the Civil Registration, may indicate that they are non Catholics, as I think Catholic Births and Marriages were only registered after 1865. Researching in Ireland before 1901 is not easy, you really need the Parish, or at least the County, where someone was born to really get anywhere, and then hope the name is unusual. My father in law's family came from a small village in Co. Offaly and there were two unrelated families with the same surname out of a population of a couple of hundred people. a nightmare to find who belongs to who.

Glyn.

[Shirl20]

Birth registration for Joshua McDonald is Mar Q 1871 Liverpool (8b Page 105)
The 1891 and 1901 census records state he was born about 1871.
That is why I thought he must have been only 2 months old in 1871.

Thanks to Coromandel for the marriage update.
My source was Ancestry which ironically differs for that Sarah from the FreeBMD website.
Sorry for the confusion.