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Sexton Family from Mayo

MayoKilgarvan (Mayo)

I am hoping that maybe anyone has info on my great great grandmother. Her name was Mary Margaret Sexton. She was born 25 Mar 1851 in Kilgarvan parish. She was baptized on 24 Mar 1874. Her sponsors were Joe and Ellen Touhy.  Mary immigrated the following month to America.

 

Other Sexton names include:

James Sexton

Thomas Laurence  born 22 Mar 1881 Ballina, Mayo

Anne Elizabeth born 1881 Killala, Mayo

Alice born Sept 1883 in Ballinrobe

Ellen Agnes Sexton

 

If anyone has any info at all, I'd be happy to hear what you know.

 

Thank you...

Norm

Greatlefty

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Hi Norm,

I searched www.rootsireland.ie/ for Mary Sexton born in Mayo 1851 without success but searched without her first name and got Margaret born 1852

It costs to view records on rootsireland but the record will have the father's name and the parish

There are 16 Sextons born/baptised 1851 + - 20 yearsin Mayo so you might want to have a look at some of those

Col

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Hi

You could also look at Sligo records

Bonniconlon is part of Kilgarvan, and that is outside Ballina on the Sligo side.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlmayo2/kilgarvan_cp_characteristics.html

Up to 1898 the part of Ballina town over the North of the River e.g. Ardnaree, was regarded as being in Sligo.

On this site (a really good one for North Mayo) it has a Sexton Buried outside Ballina

http://goldenlangan.com/graves-cp.html

This site shows Sextons in Sligo...http://www.irishgraveyards.ie/search.php?yardid=0&lastname=Sexton&firstname=&address=&county=Sligo&month=&year=

 

On the Griffiths Valuations it also just shows Sextons in Sligo, and none in Mayo

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=68&Submit.y=6&Submit=Submit&familyname=Sexton&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=SLIGO&unionname=&parishname=

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