I am looking for any descendents of Patrick O'Reilly born in Co. Wexford (Enniscorty I think) in 1908. His father was Thomas O'Reilly born in Clonroche Co. Wexford in 1888 and his mother was Bridget Murphy. He had two sisters Lucy and Mary and I think Patrick married and had two sons Patrick and Thomas but I'm not sure about this.
Any help at all would be very welcome.
Colette:
Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!
Patrick was born in the Enniscorthy workhouse in 1908 as you indicated. I located his likely civil marriage record in 1933. See links below. Both records were on the free site www.irishgenealogy.ie ; I was not able to locate a civil marriage record for Thomas and Bridget Murphy. Online birth records stop in 1916.
Finding current descendants will be difficult. Have you considered a DNA test?
Roger McDonnell
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_retur…
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…
You may already have these records.
This is Patrick on the 1911 census, http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Wexford/Killoughrum/Ne…
Thomas and Bridget's marriage;
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…
Thomas's parents's marriage; https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…
Lucy born 1912; https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_retur… and Mary 1915.
Good luck with your research.
Martina
Dear Roger and Martina,
Thank you so much for your replies.
I did not have a marriage cert for Patrick Reilly and Mary Murphy. I have done the DNA test and the information on this marriage cert allowed me to work out the relationship between myself and a DNA match on the Ancestry web site.
Hopefully some day I will find the decendents of Thomas O'Reilly and Bridget Murphy.
Again, sincere thanks,
Colette