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When did your ancestors go to UK? Here is a Wm. Meara in Borrisokane, born in 1857 to James Meara and Mary HanIey.
Name: William Meara
Date of Birth:
Date of Baptism: 12-Apr-1857
Address: Not Recorded
Parish/District: BORRISOKANE
Gender: Male County Co. Tipperary
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Father: James Meara Mother: Mary Hanly
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1: Ellen Crenane
Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2: Not Recorded
Notes:
M O'D [PRIEST]
E WM
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Here is a transcription from rootsireIand.ie of the marriage record of James Mara and Mary HanIey:
Date of Marriage: 25-Feb-1843
Parish / District: EMLY
County: Co. Tipperary
Husband Wife
Name: James Mara Mary Hanley
Address:
Denomination: Roman Catholic Roman Catholic
Occupation:
Age:
Status:
Husband's Father Wife's Father
Name: Mara Hanley
Address:
Denomination:
Occupation:
Husband's Mother Wife's Mother
Name:
Address:
Denomination:
Occupation:
Witness 1 Witness 2
Name: James O'Brien Ellen O'Brien
Address:
In the 1871 UK census, James Mara, 50, is Iiving with wife CATHERINE, not Mary, indicating that Mary had IikeIy died.
Above James's househoId on the same page is the househoId of Bridget Mara; it incIudes a young MichaeI Mara.
Not sure of the reIationship.
