Person in this family
Bridget Boyle
Dates not recorded
She witnessed the marriage of **Patrick Farrelly and Margaret Boyle** at Miltown chapel, Killeshandra, on 8 May 1879. Sharing the bride's surname, she is very likely Margaret's sister and another daughter of Patrick Boyle of Gartbratten — which the register does not say and which nothing yet proves.
Proved by a record
She witnessed the marriage of **Patrick Farrelly and Margaret Boyle** at Miltown chapel, Killeshandra, on 8 May 1879. Sharing the bride's surname, she is very likely Margaret's sister and another daughter of Patrick Boyle of Gartbratten — which the register does not say and which nothing yet proves.
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Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.
Life
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Places listed on this page
- Cavan, County Cavan, Ireland
- Clara, County Cavan, Ireland
- Gartbratten, County Cavan, Ireland
- Miltown Roman Catholic Chapel, County Cavan, Ireland
- Killeshandra registrar’s district, Cavan, Ireland
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What the records say
1 record transcribed.
Record exhibit
Irish civil marriage — Patrick Farrelly and Margaret Boyle, 8 May 1879
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Proved by a record
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[RECORD] “May the 8th 1879” | Patrick Farrelly | Full age | Bachelor | Farmer | Clara | father Andrew Farrelly | Farmer | Margaret Boyle | Spinster | Gartbratten | father Patrick Boyle | Farmer | Roman Catholic Chapel of Miltown | District of Killeshandra | Union of Cavan | Thomas Corr C.C. | witnesses Patrick Lappin / Bridget Boyle.”
Historical context
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What we still don't know
- [PRIVACY FLAG CORRECTED] This person was marked as possibly living, which suppressed everything about them. Nothing in their record refers to any year after 1879, so they cannot be alive: even somebody born in that year would be over a hundred and ten now. The flag was a default that had never been revisited, and it was hiding a nineteenth-century person as though they were a contemporary.