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Michael Daly, Cooltrim, Aghnamullen and Middletown, Armagh

MonaghanAghnamullen (Monaghan)

I am searching for information on the family ofmy great-grandfather Michael Daly, born Cooltrim, 14 March 1869 to Patrick Daly and Ann McMahan. I believe he had a sister Catherine born 1867 (death unknown) and a brother Patrick who was born and died in 1871. Michael emigrated to Boston by way of New York on the SS Majestic out of Liverpool on July 12, 1899. The passenger record states that he is joining a friend, Frank Gray in Boston. (Frank was born in Massachusetts but I found a passenger record showing him traveling from Londonderry to Boston in 1895, that the last time he was in the U.S. was five years before that and his last place of residence was Derryhaw.)In 1903 hemarried Frank's wife's sister Susan Gallagher, an immigrant from Doobally, Ballyshannon, Donegal. Michael and Susan had 10 children: Annie, Josie (Mary Josephine), Michael, Susan, twins Tommy and Billy, Jenny (Jeanette), Tina (Christina), Angie (Angelina), and Pat (Owen Patrick). He was a successful businessman, owner of Daly Bottling Co. (tonic) in South Boston. Unfortunately, he died of cancer in 1919 when my grandmother Tina was only 3. I have found his baptism record from the Diocese of Clogher on the NLI website. His sponsors are Patrick and Bridget McMahan. On the passenger record for the SS Majestic, his last place of residence is listed as Middletown and my grandmother always said he was from Armagh. As far as I know, he had no Daly relatives nearby in Boston, at least none that were ever mentioned. My family and I will be traveling in Ireland from April 14th-24th and would very much like to see where the family was from and also connect with any distant cousins still in the area. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

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I have searched the statutory records for Co Armagh and nearby and cannot find any trace of the parents marriage in Armagh but what may be it was registered in Castleblaney, Co Monaghan in 1865 Volume 1, page 502. There were 3 Catherine Daly births registered in Castleblaney in 1867.

 

I don’t see a Cooltrim in Co Armagh. There is one in the adjacent county. Of Monaghan though. Likewise there’s an Aghnamullen in Monaghan but none in Armagh. There is a Derryhaw in Armagh. There was a Daly households there in the 1901 census:

 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Armagh/Brootally/Derryhaw/1019285/

 

A Catherine Daly in Cooltrim in 1901. Might be your family’s Catherine:

 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Monaghan/Creeve/Cooltum/1627732/

 

 

No Daly households in Aghnamullen in 1901.

I’d start with the 1865 marriage certificate to see what the townlands were then and also everyone’s occupations. If they were farmers they might stay put but if agricultural labourers then they would tend to move around more. Try the baptism records on the National Library site to see if you can find Michael and Patrick. Then order their birth certificates as you tend to get a bit more information on a birth cert than a baptism. The RC parish records are on-line free on the National Library site:

http://registers.nli.ie/parishes

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Elwyn, thank you! Where would .i order the birth certificates from?

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Assuming you can find a baptism date from the baptism records, you can order a photocopy of the statutory birth certificate from GRO Roscommon for €4 (euros).  http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Apply-for-Certificates.aspx

You have to download and print off the form. Then either post or fax it back to them. You can’t e-mail it to them. However if you want them to e-mail the cert to back to you, they will do that, so tick the relevant box.

 

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you very much!

akdonahue@gmail.com

Hello again Elwyn,

I have a question on the certificates from the GRO and I am hoping you can answer it for me.  (Or anyone else for that matter.)  I have a death index reference from Family Search that I believe to be for my two times great-grandmother Ann McMahan Daly.  Would there be enough information on the death certificate to tell me where she is buried or for me to determine whether or not it is her?  It would be a death from 1876.  There is no date on the index, just a year and a volume and page number.

 

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What you get on an Irish death certificate is the date and place of death, the persons name, age, sex, marital status, occupation, cause of death and the informant’s details. So if the townland is where your family were living or if the informant was the husband or a daughter, you may be able to decide whether its your family or not. The place of burial is not recorded there or anywhere else. It’s a matter of checking local graveyards. If the family were farmers or business people there may be a gravestone. If they were labourers or servants, there usually won’t be. If there’s no gravestone there’s probably no record anywhere of where the burial took place, though you could enquire locally.

Yes you have enough information to order a copy of the certificate. Just stick the registration town, the year, volume and page number on the form and that will be sufficient.

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you very much Elwyn!

akdonahue@gmail.com

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