Hello Roger.
The birth record for Ellen looks positive, the year fits and also Charles Heslin has been mentioned before as her possible father, also one of the witnesses at their marriage was Ellen Cooney who could have been her mothers sister. On their marriage certificate it says Ellen was from Cumafunshaw or Climafunshaw, it's hard to read, don't think those places exist. I do have DNA matches with Cooney names in them but none relating to Ellen at the minute.
We did wonder if that could have been Andrews death certificate but there are so many mistakes, the address and date are spot on, you noticed the age at time of death was out. I have a memory card from Andrews funeral and it says he was 96 when he died! Although I'm not surprised as Andrew aged 15 years inbetween the 1901 and 1911 census and Ellen aged 20 years!!!! So I don't think either of them had a clue how old they were. Andrew did have a grandson called Patrick J but he lived in the USA and was only a child at the time so couldn't have been the informant, also the grandsons surname wasn't Murphy. Andrew did have a son called Patrick J But he was also living in USA, but then if it was him why was grandson entered on the document and not son. Perhaps the registrar wasn't listening properly.
The death certificate for Ellen, yes that could be her but its the first time Baymichan has come up. Enybegs their family home was 15km from Ballymichan, a 3 hour walk, so more questions. But a relative did think she died/funeral was around the new year so that fits.
Apparently the newspaper article about Ellen's death was in more than one of the local papers, so one of them I'm assuming was the Longford leader? Would the longford Journal have had death notices in?
Thank you for your help. I will do a bit more research into the Cooney's and see what comes up as that seems to fit with what facts we have.
Kind regards
Lily.
