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McAuley

FermanaghEnniskillen (Fermanagh)

Hi All,

I am looking for information on my great great grandfather Patrick McAuley born in 1814 in Enniskillen. The story that I was told by my grandmother was that he had to leave Ireland as he was accused of being a vagrant. At which point he and his wife Elizabeth Harte McAuley (Elizabeth also born in Enniskillen in 1818) left and went to Glasglow Scotland. They left Scotland in 1847 aboard the Miracle (which sank off the Magdelan Islands) and were taken by schooners to Pictou Nova Scotia Canada. Where they lived until they died. When they left Scotland they had an infant by the name of Mary who died aboard the ship.

I have not been able to confirm any of this information or even trace either one of them in Ireland. Any help anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Trudy Boisvert

USA

trunals45

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Trudy,

You don’t say what denomination your ancestors were but I’ll assume RC. The RC baptism records for Enniskillen don’t start till 1838 so it will be difficult to find a record of their births. However the marriage records start in 1817 so they might be worth checking, in case they married in Enniskillen before going to Glasgow. The RC parish records are on-line free on the National Library site:

http://registers.nli.ie/parishes

You can also use those records to search for daughter Mary too. I searched Scotlandspeople to see if there is any trace of the marriage or baptism there but there is not. However statutory registration didn’t start in Scotland till 1855 and so the search is based on parish records which are not complete so that’s not conclusive.

You could try the Fermanagh Gold site to see if there’s any record of the families there:

http://search.atavus.org

In general there are not many Irish records for the early 1800s and so tracing the couple may be very difficult.

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

thank you so much for answering my post. I believe they were protestant as my grandmother was does that make a difference
 

trunals45

Protestant marriages were recorded in the statutory records in Ireland from 1st April 1845 onwards. I checked those for the McAuley = Hart marriage but did not find it. That suggests either they married before that date, or that they married in Scotland.

If they married in Ireland and were protestant, then they may have been either Church of Ireland, or Presbyterian. The bad news is that the Enniskillen Church of Ireland records for the period you are interested in were destroyed in the 1922 fire in Dublin. (Ironically they had been sent there for safe keeping). However the Presbyterian records do still exist. Baptisms and marriages start in 1819 (with gaps). There’s a copy in PRONI (the public record office) in Belfast. It’s not on-line though and a personal visit is required to access them.

I have checked the Presbyterian records in Scotland (on Scotlandspeople) for the marriage but did not find it, nor Mary’s baptism. However if they were Church of Ireland, which is the Episcopalian church in Scotland, then their records are not on-line. I think they are held in the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh but am not certain about that.

http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk

 

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

2 points.

1.Scottish records are now on a pay to view site

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

2.The Mitchell  Library in Glasgow holds the Poor Law Records for Glasgow. If your ancestors were as you suggest vagrant at one point they may appear in these records. They usually hold details of place of birth and parents names.

Bob Graham

IrelandXO member

thank you so much for the information. It appears though that they may be impossible to trace but I will never give up

 

trunals45

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