Looking for Patrick Reilly / O'Reilly | B: abt 1813 | D: 11 Feb 1899

Hi

 

See from his death entry it gives his occupation as retired grocer and police pensioner.Would he have perhaps been an RIC constable stationed in Carlow ?

That might explain the "late "marriage although a man marrying at 43 would not have been as unusual then.

Have you checked RIC records ?Think these give place of birth etc.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/linker?ark=/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZT-277…; Record for Winifred Noonan married to Patrick Reilly  

Marriage

3 Apr 1856

Ballon and Rathoe, County Carlow, Ireland        children, Edward Reilly 1857-1885

                                                                                   Marian Reilly  1861-

                                                                                   Maryanne Reilly  1865-

                                                                                   Peter Reilly  1865-

                                                                                                            

                                                                                 Thomas Reilly 1858-1903

                                                                                  Patrick Reilly    1860 1937         

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_retur… Birth of Peter Reilly  24/10/1865

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZ1-CX17 Winifred Noonan baptised  7/7/1821 Ballon and Rathoe, Carlow. Father Thomas Noonan, Mother Anne Noonan

Attached is Patrick's RIC pension record which commenced the same month and year he married. There are also two enrollment records, one from Meath and the other from Cavan, on Ancestry for a Patrick Reilly; but hard to know which one is his. 

Regards,

 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JV8-WKMLhttps://www.family…; Thomas Reilly 17/3/1858

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JHW-FRBJ ;   Fanny Reilly 10/11/1862

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6J4W-B878 ;   Peter Reilly 24/10/1865

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6N29-D8LQ ; Maryanne Reilly 25/5/1861

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JJK-2K3Z ;   Edward Reilly 30/1/1857

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZG-F9S3 ;   Patrick Reilly  11/1/1860

Thank you everyone for the wonderful information! I am looking in to everything now :)

Thank you al so much!!!! The RIC constable information was the tip I needed! I traced all his pension report records, got his start date and I already had his death date and with this info I was able to match him up to his original work record and found he was born in county Armagh and was working as a shoemaker before he joined the police and was sent to Carlow. He retired 3 days before he married my GGG. This is an amazing find. I was looking in the wrong counties all together!