Simon Healy, born 1795, and daughter Ellen born 1830-31

Hello DM, firstly I imagine he went to sea earlier but is only recorded when he became a master mariner or first mate unless he was jusk a deckhand but I doubt they recorded everyone on board but maybe they did even then.

There are a lot of Ellen Healys born in Cork circa 1830 but none with a father SImon, however around that time there are two births ot a Simon Healy and Haily (same person) and a Catherine Carty in Castletownroche in County Cork about 20 miles north of Cork city, I looked at the site Roots Ireland which is a subscription site. However there is a free site here with Cork church records and you can see all of them, the two I found to Simon were a Bridget and a Daniel, only see two to that pairing. 

There is an Ellen Haly born to a Denis Haly and a Catherine Burke and they had another child a Michael born in 1838 and that is all I see to 1845. 

There are 2 Denis Healy born in Cork city in about 1797 and 1799 but no way of knowing as a marriage of this Denis may not give his parents names etc Here is the free site and click on Church records and Cork area as it appears to have more than the subscription site, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/  civil records for all only commencein 1864 and 1845 for Protestant marriages, ohterwise you are dependent on church records and the ones I found were all RC. You are at the outer regions of Irish records here as you only have church records and htey are patchy but Cork appear fairly good but the inability to find a marriage for the Simon menitoned indicates the records are missing or lost if they existed, the laws at the time frowned on RC marriages.

Good Luck

Pat

HI DM, there is a marriage on the 6th May 1828 in Passage West to suit on Ancestry, surprisingly not on Roots Ireland. THere are a number of children too to the marriage, but searched 1833 plus or minus 5 I think, some are returned under the name Holy but was searching Haly so a variant, mother was Finn. This is more likely to be a mariner as they live in a place associated with the sea, it is on the other side to Cobh (Cove) fromerly Queenstown if searching pre 1921. The children I see are Ellen 18 June 1829; Willliam 31 March 1833; James 30 Nov 1827; Catherine 13 June 1835 and Anne born 16th Nov 1830. There may be more. You should be able to read the registers for free here but they are only searchable by date, year and month and some can be a tricky read; https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0088

I would look at the gaps between children here as if he were away deep sea it is likely the trips would be measured in years, whereas he may have plied on the coast only, ie Ireland; England and near continent etc was he in the merchant or Royal Navy etc

There are a few Simon Haly about, I was surprised as I would have thought Simon was not too common a name but thats genealogy never make assumptions. 

Good Luck

Pat