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Robbins of Galway

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My great great grandmother Mary Robbins/Robins married Patrick Dooley at York, England on 7th July 1863. She gave her age at that time as 21 years and her father as Nicholas, a farmer.

In all the subsequent censuses she gave her birthplace as Galway, but her age varied over the years - sometimes quite considerably.

In 1861 Mary was living with her brother, Martin, in Derbyshire. In the 1891 census Martin gave his birthplace as "Holly Hill, Galway, Ire;land".

There is a marriage of a Nicholas Robins to Mary McDonagh at Tynagh on 1st February 1827 and I have found a death of a Nicholas Robbins in the Loughrea Registration District in 1868. It is possible that these two Nicholases are father and son.

I would very much like to find more informatio about the Robins/Robbins ancestors in my family.

Please, can anyone help?

CPHarrison

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Hi Clive

There are 4 baptism records of Mary Robins / Robbins 1843 + - 20 years in Galway on www.rootsireland.ie/; however when the father's first name Nicholas is added to the search criteria there are no matches. Same with mother's first & / or last name.

http://ifhf.rootsireland.ie/quis.php?page=1&confirmPageView=Y

As 2  of the records are 1823 they could be discounted leaving 1 in 1845 and 1 in 1848 the latter being Mary Bridget. 

The 1845 & 48 listings are both from Galway East; there is no Holly Hill in the list of parishes but there is Loughrea RC and that is where the 1845 Mary's baptism was registered.

It will cost a few Euro to view the full record which MAY have the parents' names - some do / some don't.

There is a record of Nicholas & Mary's marriage

http://ifhf.rootsireland.ie/quis.php?page=0&prevStartQuery=0

There are 2 birth/baptisms of Martin Robins but not with the right parents or in Galway.

There are 24 public member trees on ancestry.com with a Mary Robbins with father Nicholas but her mother was Ann and she was born in the 1600's!!

http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=ms_r_db&gsfn=Mary&gsfn_x=XO&gsln=Robbins&gsln_x=XO&msbdy=1842&msbpn__ftp=Galway%2C+Ireland&msbpn=5304&msbpn_PInfo=7-%7C0%7C1652381%7C0%7C3250%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C5304%7C0%7C0%7C&msfng0=Nicholas&msfng0_x=1&msfns0=Ro

There is a whatling tree with Martin Robbins + father Nicholas but no other details.

http://trees.ancestry.com.au/tree/29060603/person/12170509901

Col

 

 

 

ColCaffIrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Col,

 

Thanks for your reply and the information it contains.

I have subsequently found a marriage of Anne Robbins to John Forde on 26th January 1867 at Ballinasloe. Anne's father is shown as Nicholas and therefore Anne may be a sister to Mary.

Regards

 

Clive

 

 

CPHarrison

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