Hi - my great grandparents were Daniel Doody and Johanna Keane. I'd like to findtheir marriage record and the reason for leaving to the US. They had 3 children in Illinois then returned to Ireland in 1899. Any help would be appreciated.
Kentishgal:
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Do you have an approximate year for the marriage? I looked at www.irishgenealogy.ie for both civil and church records and don't see a marriage record. There are three baptismal records for children of these parents in 1902, 1904 and 1906 in Knocknagoshel church.
I did find this 1911 census record which shows the oldest child Nora on the record born in America but the two oldest children were not in the house.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kerry/Knocknagashel/Me…
The census record indicates a marriage around 1892. Any possibilitiy they married in the States?
They likely left Ireland for a better opportunity for employment and returned either to take over the farm or maybe they did not like America.
Roger McDonnell