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Hi all Iam searching for relatives who may have originated from County Roscommon. They were Roman Catholic . My great grand father was James GATENS/GATTENS who married in Port-Glasgow Scotland in 1852. His death record states that his parents were Francis GATTENS/GATENS and Catherine TRAVERS. From another relative's family tree ( I know the pitfalls of relying on family trees on the web ! ) I have a Catherine TRAVERS born 1811 in Roscommon to parents MichaelTRAVERS and Honor(a?) GALLACHER . I would like some help in tracing Catherine TRAVERS which may in turn lead me to her husband Francis. The GATTENS/GATENS origin has been a brick wall for a long time .

Thanks in anticipation from New Zealand Phyllis

orkrad

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Phyllis:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Below is a transcription from Roots Ireland showing Catherine was baptized in the Croghan RC church. Crogahn would be up in northeast Roscommon not far from the Longford border. I did not find any Catherine Travers marriage records in Roscommon on Roots where the spouse had a first name of Francis. Could they have married in Scotland? Gatten does not appear to be a Roscommon surname. The closest would be Gately.

You may want to consider autosomal DNA testing.

Roger McDonnell

 

Name:Catherine TraversDate of Birth:
Date of Baptism:26-Jun-1811Address:Not RecordedParish/District:CROGHANGender:FemaleCountyCo. Roscommon
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:Michael TraversMother:Honor GallagherOccupation:
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Informant 1:Phillip Mcgauran Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:Brigid Gallagher 

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

 Thanks Roger. The couple FrancisGATENS and Catherine TRAVERS did not ever come to Scotland so I think we are looking for IRISH marriage and  IRISH death records   I have already done my ANCESTRY DNA  so am not intending to do any futher DNA testing at present  but it is good to confirm Catherine TRAVERS bith details. 

Regards Phyllis 

orkrad

Phyllis:

Civil registration of deaths started in 1864. I searched for records for Francis or Catherine Gattens/Gatens and did not see any Francis records and the only Catherine death in the 1800s was up in Co. Tyrone and the person died in 1876 and was 90 so a date of birth in 1786.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

 Thanks again Roger . Any chance of births of children to Francis and Catherine after about 1830 in Castlemore ? They had sons called James and John . R egards Phyllis 

orkrad

Phyllis:

No baptismal records in Roots Ireland for Gattens in Roscommon.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

 Thanks again for going to the trouble of checking the records for me . There is a famly story that the GATTENS/GATENS came from Donegal ( where no one knows!). It was wonderful to find the TRAVERS connection in Roscommon and I am woefully ignorant of its location.  I need to sort out my Irish counties before I go much further in the GATTENS/GATENS family saga. 

Regards from New  Zealand .  Phyllis 

orkrad

Phyllis:

FYI-Travers is also found in Co. Donegal. Finding pre-1850 RC records for Co. Donegal is almost impossible.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

 Thanks Roger . I really appreciate all your efforts.

Regards Phyllis 

orkrad

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