Mary Maguire

Darlene,

This may be Patrick Joseph (b 1910)’s birth:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1910/01569/1632884.pdf

Maggie Ann’s birth in 1891:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1891/02387/1890524.pdf

Mary Jane in 1887. The informant  was a Margaret Maguire. Who might she be?

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1887/02547/1942665.pdf

Patrick:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1883/02747/2009389.pdf

I notice the above birth was in the workhouse, but sadly the admission records for Lisnaskea workhouse have been lost. So no help there.

You say that Mary Maguire was baptised in Dublin in 1857, and that some other members of the family were too. How sure are you about that? In both censuses Mary gives Fermanagh as her place of birth and for her children too. Most Roman Catholics were baptised within a very short period after birth (just a few days), so you would expect that to have been in Fermanagh, not Dublin. Especially in the 1850s. The railway arrived in Lisnaskea in 1858 but prior to that Dublin was a 2 or 3 day journey for most folk.  The RC baptism records for Aughalurcher RC parish, which includes Lisnaskea, start in 1835 and are on-line, but Mary Maguire is such a common name in that area (Maguire is the most common surname in Fermanagh) that without parents’ names it could be difficult to identify the right one.

Discrepancies in ages in Irish censuses and other official documents are very common. People didn’t really celebrate birthdays then and ages were often just guessed, so the variations you have found are pretty common.