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The question was whether an Andrew Leahy remembered from Pine Beach could be a relation. His family is now identified precisely, and the honest answer is that they are not yet connected, and that the most attractive theory about how they connect is dead. Andrew's grandfather was William A. Leahy, who died in December 2008 aged seventy one. He was born in Jersey City about 1937, raised in Bayonne, and moved to Pine Beach around 1977. He spent thirty one years in the New Jersey State Police and retired as a lieutenant of the Criminal Investigation Unit, having also worked as an investigator for

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Elizabeth Leahy, born at Bayonne in 1906, was one of Malachy Leahy's daughters. She married Charles Ryan, and she died in 1984 at Bridgeton, right down at the far end of New Jersey. Her monument at Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City has now been read, and it is a considerable thing: an upright granite stone with RYAN cut across it, a carved panel of two haloed figures standing either side of a child beneath a descending dove, an IHS cross with a rosary hanging down each side pillar, and a band of flowers across the top. Three people are named on it. Charles M, 1898 to 1972. Elizabeth M, 1906 to

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Two Find a Grave memorials have filled in the Ocean County branch of this family, the one that left the Bayonne waterfront for the Jersey Shore. The stone at Saint Joseph's in Toms River is a single flat slab with one word across the top, LEAHY, and three people under it. John J Sr, 1905 to 1988. Estelle M, 1906 to 1978. Walter T, 1937 to 1989, who died a few weeks after the year turned on his father's death. An American flag stands at the head of it. The photograph is now on his page, credited to the volunteer who took it in 2019. The eldest son is the more interesting story. John Joseph Leah

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Somebody asked whether an Andrew Leahy they knew growing up in Pine Beach, New Jersey could be related. The archive turns out to have a clear answer to the shape of that question, even if it cannot yet name the man. John Joseph Leahy Sr was born in Bayonne in January 1905, the son of Malachy Leahy, and he died at Island Heights in Ocean County in December 1988. Island Heights, Toms River and Pine Beach are neighbours. He married Estelle Birch in 1932 and they had three sons, Jack, Robert and Walter, all of them Ocean County men, and he lies with his wife and two of those sons in one grave at S

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A pass over the thinnest records in the archive, starting with the ones that the most relatives depend on. Two of the Ventry Fitzgeralds in County Kerry had birth years that came from a family tree and had never been checked against anything. Both were wrong. John was recorded here as born in 1901. The civil register has him born on 5 October 1900 at Cahirtrant, and registered on 6 December, which is probably where the extra year came from. His sister Mary was recorded as 1903. She was born on 7 December 1902 and registered the following January. Both are now sourced to the register page itsel

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There is now a single map of the whole archive, and clicking any pin tells you who was there. It lives on the Places page and it builds itself: every place in the archive that has coordinates and at least one person attached gets a pin, and the pin's popup lists those people by name with links to their pages. Ninety one pins at the moment, spread across the eastern United States, Ireland, England, Italy, France and Australia, with cemeteries marked in red. Add a person to a place tomorrow and the pin updates itself with no work at all. Two things were quietly wrong and are now fixed. The map u

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Until today this archive had five hundred and thirty seven people and exactly one photograph of a face, tucked into a sidebar. The photographs are now a proper part of a person's page, and the first three are up. The one the family has always called Dennis is here: an elderly couple standing outdoors with two small children holding on to them, the man in a dark suit with a white moustache, the woman in a pale dress. The dress and the print put it in the 1930s, which fits Dennis C. Leahey, born 1867, and rules out his father the Captain, who died in 1907. The identification comes from the famil

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The archive has grown to the point where the expensive part is no longer finding a record. It is noticing that two records already sitting here bear on each other. So there is now a tool that reads the whole corpus and reports where that is true, using no internet at all, in about a second. Running it for the first time it found four things worth having. Vincent Leahey was recorded as a son of Dennis Leahey and Ann Galvin, and had been carried as a candidate for one of their six unidentified children. He cannot be. He was born around March 1912 and Dennis died in April 1907, five years earlier

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Anne Cooney of Derrycriff had a family in this archive that consisted of four names and nothing else: a husband, Michael Cawley, and sons Andrew, Marty and Peter, with no dates, no places and no records behind any of them. An earlier sweep had looked for them and found nothing at all. The reason is now obvious. That sweep searched the Irish civil registers, and the Cawleys were in Manhattan. A single search of American records against both parents' names returns four of their children at once. Michael Joseph, born 5 March 1911 in New York, died 5 August 1921 aged ten. Edward, born 21 March 191

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Helen Bridget Farley was born in Manhattan on 19 June 1921 and died on the 21st, two days old. Until today all this archive knew was that she had existed and died. Her death certificate has now been read, and it answers the question her family has been asking. She is buried at St Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx. The certificate is New York City number 15717 of 1921, and field seventeen, place of burial, says St Raymond. She was buried on 22 June, the day after she died and the same day the certificate was filed. The cause of death is given as congenital atelectasis, which means her lungs never

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Ruth Cacace was born Ruth Noga, and until this week we did not even know that much. Now we know something about her childhood, and it is not a comfortable thing. The 1920 census returns exactly one Ruth Noga in the whole of New York State, and she is ours: twelve years old, born in New York, living in Brooklyn. But the column recording her relationship to the head of the household does not say daughter. It says niece. At twelve she was being raised by an aunt or an uncle rather than by her parents, and seven years later she married Carmine Cacace at seventeen. Something had happened to John No

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Pressing further on the Jones line has turned up the 1950 census, and with it a man in more focus. Howard Graham Jones was forty five, still at Great Neck, and working as a salesman in the plastics industry, which in 1950 was about as modern a trade as existed. The enumerator spelled it Plasties and his job Saleman, and the index has faithfully preserved both. His later life comes from Social Security records. He filed his claim on 29 March 1969, three weeks before his sixty fifth birthday, by which time he had moved along the north shore to Sea Cliff. He died in January 1996 at ninety one. Th

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Two branches on Gina's side moved today. The Jones line had eight people in this archive and not a single source between them. Everything came from a family tree and nothing had ever been checked. It now has a household. The 1940 census finds Howard Graham Jones at Great Neck, out on Long Island, aged thirty five and born in New York, with his wife Helen, aged thirty, and their three children. The census also notes they had been living in the same place in 1935. There is a fourth adult in the house, a woman of twenty one named Anne Bart, whose relationship the index does not give and who was m

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A few hours ago this archive concluded that the Cacace side could go no further without buying a document, because Carmine Cacace was born in New York and his immigrant parents could not be picked out of the fifty or so Cacace households in Brooklyn. That conclusion was wrong, and wrong in an instructive way. Carmine was not born in New York. He was born at Naples in February 1901. The reason we thought otherwise is that an earlier pass read the birthplace column of the 1950 census as N.Y. and everything was built on top of that one hard-to-read word. Five records say Italy: two naturalisation

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Sergeant Peter Cooney's identification is now proved, and by a source none of us had looked at. The United States Veterans Administration kept a master index of servicemen between 1917 and 1940. Its card for Peter Cooney gives his birth as 4 September 1890, his death as 14 October 1918, and his residence place as Islndeady Castlebar, Ireland. Islndeady is Islandeady. It is the parish and the civil registration district that contains Derrycriff, the townland where Peter Coony the farmer and Margaret Needham had their son in October 1890, and where the father made his cross on the birth register

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The 1868 register of Margaret Condon's birth has been read, and it does two things. It gives Patrick Condon a third documented cross. He made his mark at his marriage in 1865, again here in June 1868, and again registering Catherine in 1874. Thirteen years and three records, and he could not write on any of them. The entry is unusually explicit about it: where other registers write his name around a small X, this one reads simply, The Mark of Patrick Condon, Father, Mohera. The second thing is a correction to our own map. This archive has been carrying two separate County Cork townlands for th

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The Cacace side of the family had been built out of a single page of the 1950 census and left there. It now has its burials. Carmine Cacace and his wife Ruth are at Pinelawn Memorial Park in East Farmingdale, out on Long Island, and they are in the same grave: section 60, block 3, range 30, plot D, grave 114. Carmine was buried on 24 May 1978, three days after he died. Ruth was laid in beside him on 7 September 2004, twenty six years later. The same pattern repeats twice more on the Spatarella side. Frank Spatarella and Caroline, whose maiden name the memorial gives as Zollo, share one grave a

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Having put Sergeant Peter Cooney's identification back together, the obvious next step was his Graves Registration card. It turned out to be sitting in our own document folder, cited but never actually looked at. It corrects something we had wrong and adds a good deal we did not have. First the correction. This archive listed his Army serial number as 49525. That is not his serial number. The card's first column is headed File No. and carries 49525; the column beside it, headed Army Serial No., reads 91675. An earlier transcription had swapped the two, and every note since had repeated it. His

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This archive had it wrong, and the correction matters enough to say plainly. Peter Cooney, born at Derrycriff in County Mayo in October 1890 to a father who could not write his own name, emigrated to New York and was killed in action in France on 14 October 1918 as a sergeant in Company M of the 165th Infantry, the old Fighting 69th. He was two days short of his twenty eighth birthday. Until today this page said that identification was chronologically impossible. The reason was a single clause in Father Francis Duffy's memoir of the regiment, where the chaplain listed the sergeants he had lost

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Four register pages have now been read closely, from four different districts, and together they say something the individual entries could not. In Islandeady in Mayo, thirty nine informants out of forty made a cross. But in Mitchelstown, in Ventry and in Galbally the split is close to even. So the mark is not one thing everywhere. In Mayo it was simply what everybody did. In Cork, Kerry and Limerick it separated people inside the same parish, and on those pages it separates them by trade with almost no exceptions. Take the Galbally page of May 1873. Four people signed their own names: Roger H

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Peter Cooney and Margaret Needham were married in the Roman Catholic chapel at Islandeady on 26 February 1884. Their marriage register has now been read at the signature line, and Peter's cross is plain: the clerk wrote Peter Cooney and left a gap, and in the gap is the X, with the word his above it and mark below. That pushes his illiteracy back to his wedding day, matching the crosses he made registering Bridget in 1886 and Peter in 1890. Margaret's line is worth being careful about. It sits directly beneath his and carries the clerk's mark annotation in exactly the same position, which is t

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The best thing a civil register holds is not a date. It is the moment someone had to put pen to paper, and what happened next. Three more of those have now been cut out of the page and added to the people they belong to. Margaret Needham's cross, made at Derrycriff on 21 August 1894 when she registered her daughter Ellen. The registrar wrote out Margaret Cooney and she made the X between the two words, and underneath it says mother, and under that Derrycriff. Then the marriage line from Castlelyons on 7 September 1865, which carries both Patrick Condon and Mary Ryan at once. The clerk wrote Pa

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Patrick Condon and Mary Ryan were married in the Roman Catholic chapel at Castlelyons on 7 September 1865, by Father Daniel McSwiney. Patrick was twenty five, a bachelor and a labourer living at Maghera. Mary was twenty two and still resident with her parents at Coole. Where the register asks the bride and groom to sign, both of them made a cross instead. That pushes what we know about them back nine years. We already knew Patrick could not write in 1874 and Mary could not in 1876 and 1878. Now we can see that neither of them could write on the day they married either, which means there was ne

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Two more registers that had been sitting on disk, cited but never read, from Mitchelstown in County Cork. They show that Mary Ryan could not write. She registered her son James in May 1876 and her daughter Mary in July 1878, and both times she made her mark. Her husband Patrick had done the same registering Catherine in 1874, so neither parent in that house could sign a name. The registers also confirm Patrick as a labourer three times over, which had rested on a single entry before. But the reason to publish this is what surrounds those marks. In Mayo, where the Cooneys lived, we found that t

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Four birth registers from Derrycriff in County Mayo had been downloaded and cited but never actually read. Reading them answers something the indexes never do. When Peter Cooney went in to register his daughter Bridget in March 1886, the registrar wrote his name for him and Peter made a cross between the words. He did the same when he registered his son Peter in 1890 — four years apart, the same mark. In August 1894 his wife Margaret went in to register their daughter Ellen, and she made a cross too. Neither parent in that house could write their own name. A third cross belongs to Bridget Need

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Ann Galvin told two censuses she had borne eighteen children. Twelve are named. The route that looked most promising for the other six was New Jersey marriage records, which name both parents of the couple marrying — and it did work, giving up three Bayonne weddings and one exact Syracuse birth. It has now been followed to its end, and the end is close by. Across the whole United States only eleven indexed records name both a Leahey father and a Galvin mother, and four of them are this family's; the rest belong to unrelated families in Minnesota and Boston. A sweep of 34,488 Bayonne marriages

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Until now the family's Syracuse years rested entirely on obituaries. James Leahey's Social Security application gives his birth outright: 27 February 1864 at Syracuse, New York, with his parents named as Dennis Leahey and Anna Galvin. That is the first exact date for any of the Syracuse-born children and the first record, rather than a newspaper, to put the family there. The same search turned up three Bayonne marriages, each naming the same parents: Matthew to Catherine Meaney on 10 June 1889, James to Mary Mullins on 7 April 1890, and Dennis to Anna Meaney on 7 June 1891. Their descent from

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The 1865 New York State Census is now searchable, and every Lahey, Leahy and Lehy household in Onondaga County has been listed. One is tempting: in Ward 04 of Syracuse lived Dennis and Anna with children Catharine, John and James — three of the right names, in the right city, in the right decade, and James Leahey's 1947 obituary does say he was born in Syracuse. It has not been claimed, for two reasons. Dennis's age is ten years out against the 1860 census, and the couple's age order inverts. And Catharine at nine would have been born about 1856, three years before Dennis and Ann married. Chec

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Five men called Maurice Fitzgerald died in the right districts at a plausible age. Reading the registers, one stands out: a farmer who died at Ballylanders on 10 July 1883, aged 64, of heart disease. Ballylanders is this family's own place - his supposed son John was raising children at Cullane, Ballylanders in those years - and the occupation and age both fit. It is not proof. An Irish death register never names parents, so nothing in it states the relationship. But the informant is interesting in its own right: Margaret Fitzgerald, wife of the deceased, who signed with a cross. If this is th

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A small thing in the registers turns out to be useful. When a father had already died, the clerk wrote deceased under his name — as he did for Thomas Needham in 1884 and for a neighbour on the very page that records John Fitzgerald's marriage. Maurice Fitzgerald and Richard Fraher have no such note in 1870, and neither do Andrew Farrelly and Patrick Boyle in 1879. So all four were alive on those days, which gives four men who had no dates at all a point on the calendar, and puts their deaths inside the period covered by civil registration. Searching for them has so far found a shortlist for Ma

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Peter Cooney of Derrycriff could not write. He registered his daughter Mary's birth in 1884 and his son Peter's in 1890, and both times the registrar wrote his name around the cross he made. His mark is now on his page, cut from the 1890 register.

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Where a register survives, person pages show the actual signature or mark, cropped from the original document. John Fitzgerald wrote his own name when he registered his son David's birth in 1875 - you can read John FitzGerald, Father, Cullane in his hand. His wife Margaret could not write, and on their 1870 marriage register the clerk wrote her name around the cross she made: Mary her x mark Fraher. It is the closest thing to meeting them.

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Born 11 December 1884 at Derrycriff, Islandeady, County Mayo, to Peter Cooney, a farmer who registered the birth with a cross, and Margaret Needham. She is one of the candidates for the Mary Cooney who married Andrew Farley in New York, though the 1920 census names his wife only as Mary, aged 34, born Ireland - close to this birth but not an exact match, and with no parents named. It stays a possible identification rather than a proved one.

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Person pages now show whether someone could sign their own name. It is one of the few things a civil register records about a person rather than about an event, and on the same page you can see the difference between neighbours. John Fitzgerald of Cullane signed his own name three times - at his marriage in 1870 and when registering his sons Richard and David - while most fathers on those same pages signed with a cross. His wife Margaret Fraher made her mark. So did Patrick Condon, Patrick Farrelly and Peter Cooney, each registering a child's birth.

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Richard Fitzgerald's 1872 birth register shows that Cullane, Ballylanders sits in the Galbally registrar's district, County Limerick, inside the Mitchelstown Poor Law Union. Flemingstown, where Catherine Condon was born, is in the same union. An earlier note here described the two families as living twenty miles apart in different counties, which overstated it and made their marriage look odd. They were within one union, and the marriage was an ordinary local one. Galbally had never been searched before this month, because it was missing from the district lists we were using.

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His birth register has been read: born 28 March 1875 at Cullane, Ballylanders, to John Fitzgerald, a farmer of Cullane, and Margaret Fitzgerald formerly Fraher. John registered the birth himself and signed his own name. That is worth noticing: most fathers on the same page of the register signed with a cross, and at his own marriage five years earlier John signed while his wife Margaret made her mark. David is John Joseph Fitzgerald's father, so this is the direct line.

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His Graves Registration card records the cause of death in two letters: k/a, killed in action, on 14 October 1918 with Company M of the 165th Infantry. The Army set down nothing more specific. The card also gives his serial number, 49525 - which earlier research had listed as unobtainable because the American Battle Monuments Commission site would not yield it. It was on disk in this archive all along. That number opens his individual service record. He was first buried on 6 November 1918 in Grave 4, an isolated grave, in the commune of Landres-et-Saint-Georges.

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Margaret Needham's father was already dead when she married in February 1884. His death has now been searched for properly and is not there. Adult Needham deaths in the Westport district between 1864 and 1884 return twenty-five results and not one is a Thomas, so this is a controlled absence rather than a failed search. The likeliest explanation is that he died before 1 January 1864, when Irish civil registration of deaths began - in which case no civil record exists at all, and only a parish burial register or a gravestone could reach him.

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His birth register has been read: born 15 October 1890 at Derrycriff, Islandeady, County Mayo, to Peter Cooney, a farmer who registered the birth himself by mark, and Margaret Needham. He was killed in the Meuse-Argonne on 14 October 1918 - a day before his twenty-eighth birthday. The archive had carried 16 October as his birth date; both are now recorded. It also sharpens an old problem: Father Duffy's regimental history says Sergeant Peter Cooney was out with the regiment in 1898, which no man born in 1890 could have been.

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The marriage register for Peter Cooney and Margaret Needham, 26 February 1884 at the Roman Catholic Chapel of Islandeady, names Peter's father as John Cooney, labourer, and Margaret's father as Thomas Needham, landholder, already deceased. It also settles a place that had caused confusion: the chapel and registrar's district are Islandeady in County Mayo, not Island Eddy in County Galway.

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The marriage register for Peter Cooney and Margaret Needham, 26 February 1884 at the Roman Catholic Chapel of Islandeady, names Peter's father as John Cooney, labourer, and Margaret's father as Thomas Needham, landholder, already deceased. It also settles a place that had caused confusion: the chapel and registrar's district are Islandeady in County Mayo, not Island Eddy in County Galway.

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It had been suggested that Catherine Condon might come from the Condons of Cullane in County Limerick, the same townland as the Fitzgeralds she married into, rather than from the Flemingstown family in Cork. Her own birth register answers it: born 19 April 1874 at Flemingstown, daughter of Patrick Condon, a labourer, and Mary Ryan. Her father registered the birth himself, by mark. The Cullane Condons are a different family. Catherine is John Joseph Fitzgerald's mother, so this sits on the direct line.

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The civil marriage register for John Fitzgerald and Margaret Fraher, married at the Roman Catholic Chapel of Kildorrery on 25 February 1870, names the groom's father as Maurice FitzGerald, farmer, and the bride's father as Richard Fraher, farmer. Maurice had been the most troublesome name in this archive: one earlier attempt to confirm him relied on a grandson being christened Morice, which is not evidence, and another moved the family to Cork on a guess and was disproved. This register states his name and occupation outright. It still gives him no dates, no townland of his own and no wife.

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The family remembered that Andrew Farrelly's brother Bernard died in an accident. The civil death register confirms it: he died at Clara, County Cavan on 8 October 1915, aged 34, a bachelor and a farmer's son. The certified cause reads “Probably injury to spine caused by fall from cart; 24 hours; no medical attendant”. His brother Patrick was present at the death.

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Patrick Farrelly of Clara married Margaret Boyle of Gartbratten on 8 May 1879 at Miltown chapel. The register names Patrick's father as Andrew Farrelly, farmer, and Margaret's father as Patrick Boyle, farmer — two generations that were previously unknown, and the Boyle line had none at all. Patrick died at Clara on 10 June 1927 aged 70 and Margaret on 9 April 1928 aged 70, each reported by one of their children who was present at the death.

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Found in the Kildallen parish register: “Andrew | Farrelly | 4 | July | Patt Farrelly / a Mary Boyle | Clara”. This finally supplies the townland, Clara, which was illegible on his civil birth register. The baptism is dated six days before the civil birth date of 10 July, which is an ordinary pattern — births were often reported to the registrar with a later date to stay inside the registration window.

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Both census households were recovered. In 1901: Patrick 47 a farmer, Marget 46, Bernard 19 a farmer's son, Ellen 16 a dressmaker, Terence 13 and Patrick 10 at school. By 1911 Ellen has left and the three sons are all labourers. Andrew is in neither census — he would have been twenty in 1901, so he had already emigrated, which is the first evidence of when he left Ireland.

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Malachy married Catherine Agnes Tobin in 1898. Their daughter Helen was born in January 1899, Catherine died in February 1901 aged 27, and Helen died in June 1903 aged four. Holy Name plot F-E-33 holds five of them in sequence: Catherine, Helen, an infant Mary, his second wife Margaret Murphy, and Malachy himself. Tobin is a surname new to this archive.

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Dennis Leahey's undertaker's register entry reads “Aged 70y, born Ireland, Corker”, which looked as though it contradicted the Templemore baptism by placing him in County Cork. Reading the other rows on the same page showed the notes column runs age, birthplace, occupation — and the Census Bureau's occupational index lists “Corker, boat or ship”. He was a boat caulker. The Tipperary origin stands.

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This archive cites fifty-four Irish register images from irishgenealogy.ie and not one of them had a word written about what it says. They are readable. Two were read tonight and both paid. Patrick Condon and Mary Ryan, Castlelyons chapel, 7 September 1865. He is 25, a bachelor, a labourer of Maghera, son of John Condon deceased, labourer. She is 22, a spinster, resident with her parents at Coole, daughter of James Ryan, labourer. That names her father and documents a link with sixty-eight people below it, from a page cited here for months as civil image. It also confirms why Mary Cashin has