Tubbs/Fogarty
Hi,
I'm new here but have done a lot of family research before - I'm actually a genealogist, but don't know the Bruff area so hoping for some local knowledge.
My Bruff ancestry goes back to my 4x great-grandparents Cornelius Tubbs and Margaret Fogarty. They were actually married in Dublin in 1824 & their first child, Bridget, my direct ancestor, was born there, but they then returned to Bruff and had 7 more children. There's another Bridget Tubbs in the records there born 1812 to Michael Tubbs and Bridget McNamara so presumably these are related.
Cornelius appears to have fathered a child with Mary Hartigan in 1823 - he's in the baptismal records as illegimate but was given his father's name: Edmond Tubbs. I speculate that this is what led Cornelius to go briefly to Dublin, but I don't know if Margaret went with him or met him there. I'm aware there are Fogartys in Bruff. Certainly several of their Bruff-born kids have Fogarty godparents but only one has a Tubbs.
The baptismal records for the area have a gap exactly when I'd expect Cornelius to have been born (1793-1804) and I haven't found him in the existing ones.
He died in 1848 (appearing on the prep work for Griffiths but the plot has passed to a Michael Fogarty by the publication).
Tubbs is a really uncommon name so I'm hoping for some local advice.
