Patrick Gargan - Bridget Smith/Smyth (Kells County Meath)

Hi Helen, Bridget and Smith what difficult names to trace, I attach what I assume is the marriage egister entry for Bridget from the free Irish Genealogy website, sign in etc, birts etc post 1864 only under civil records, there will be no church records on it so stick to civil. I also found a birth for Bridget in 1870 father Patrick, only 4 Bridgets in Meath from 1870 to 1872 and only one father Patrick. The mothers name is Catherine Naulty (probably more Nulty now) The parish is Kilbeg which is close to Moynalty near Kells in Meath but on the Cavan border. 

I could not find a marriage for Pat and Catherine but found a possible one in about 1859 or 1857 of a Patrick Smith and a Catherine Priest (weird may be a mis transcription). There were 7 children to Smith / Naulty with two Margarets, assume the elder one died in infancy, born in 1861. Oddly there is an Anne and a Margaret baptised in 1861 in Kilbeg, but one in April and one in July, baptisms at the time where usually done within 2 or 3 days in case the child died. There was only one male in this list of 7 children I think, a Denis. The spread is 1861 to 1876 and the later ones post 1864 should be on Irish genealogy here https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ remember to click civil records.

There was a census in 1901 and 1911 and is free to search here http://www.cenloosus.nationalarchives.ie/ defaults to 1911. Church records can be searched here but only by month and year https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0942 The siblings were Anne and Margaret 1861; Catherine 1863; Mary 1865; Margaret 1876 and Denis 1878. I search on the subscription site Roots Ireland from 1860 to 1880. 

I realise this is not the names you gave me but I went from the Bridget birth with matching father in Meath, found 3 in Cavan but mothers name not as you mentioned either, years 1868 to 1872.

Please revert if you wish to look some more.

Good Luck

Pat