Hi Dympna,
I'm really enjoying the course and spending a lot longer on it than originally planned. I've done a few of FL course before this one. I’m picking up some good tips and learning new sources. I'd love if some Irish colleges would do a course concentrating on Irish genealogical sources. People coming from countries where they have a census every 10 years and very details civil records, hit a brick with Irish records nearly immediately, especially if they are not tracing catholic ancestors. With the age of the internet, it is so much easier now to access information, if you know where to look. My uncle did research in the 1980s, and we have no idea how he got as much information on a distant UK branch.
If your ever looking to find the name of the other party to an Irish marriage cert, www.irishgenealogy.ie are updating there database with the spouse name. Otherwise on that website or www.familysearch.org, match the following fields - district, year, quarter if applicable, page number, volume number. Pop was a common pet name. His headstone inscription if any, civil certs or church records should confirm his legal first name.
I'm thinking back to week of the course - how reliable is the info on the civil marriage cert? For now, we'll have to assume James is the correct fathers name and concentrate on him to get over Josephs invisible baptism and birth records.
- Does the marriage cert state if James is deceased, alive or blank ie should be alive? Maybe review death certs for any James born 18 to 60 years before 1899 and try find an obituary or death notice.
- Children naming pattern in Ireland was:
- first son after the paternal grandfather father.
- next son after maternal grandfather if first son is still alive.
- first daughter after maternal grandmother - so much for the family sticking to that pattern in house 6.1 .
- next daughter after paternal grandmother if first daughter is still alive.
- does this pattern fit the sequence of Joseph and Ellen child(rens) names?
- If any of the Kings descendants are still in Bailieboro, they may pin point you’re McPhillips.
Your grandfather may have lost his fingers in the war, an industrial accident or some other accident or medical problem that required amputation. Could an accident generate a newspaper report and or court case?
If you are having problems tracing the James McPhillips family from Scotland to Ireland, is it possible to trace Scottish records forward to see is that Joseph still in Scotland during your timeframe for Joseph.
If you are on facebook, search for Bailieborough Heritage Society. The big picture at the top of the page is Bailieboro town, probably early 1900s. It is taken from the Church of Ireland, belfy looking up Main Street toward the Market Square. I'll check Lesile McKeague book for a date. The photographer should be James A Coleman. If this link opens, you can check out more of Coleman’s photos of the town in the “Coleman Collection” Cavan Co Library - http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/Default.aspx?StructureID_str=107
I don't seem to be getting notifications of replies to this thread. My e-mail is moynalty@irelandxo.com if you want to drop a line to it, we can work from there.
Regards
Catherine
