Maurice Fitzgerald

Life

How we know this: The family grouping is family-tree and Maurice's own dates are not independently documented in this archive. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Work and occupation

• farmer — 1901

  Maurice Fitzgerald | age 66 | Head of Family | Farmer | Widower

  Citation: 1901 Ireland census — Maurice Fitzgerald household at Caheratrant [4]

• retired farmer — 1911

  Maurice Fitzgerald | age 78 | Father | Retired Farmer | Widower

  Citation: 1911 Ireland census — Fitzgerald household at Caheratrant [3]

Where they lived

• 1901: Caheratrant, Ventry, County Kerry, Ireland
• 1911: Caheratrant, Ventry, County Kerry, Ireland

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The pins show approximate places. The line only joins them in time order; it does not prove the route travelled. 3 of the places listed above are recorded only as a county or country, so they are not pinned. Cemetery and burial places have red pins.

Historical context

These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.

What we still don't know

• His exact birth date and place
• His marriage and death details
• Independent records confirming the full list of children
• His eldest son's baptism at Dingle on 7 January 1859 is the earliest record of him and of his marriage. The marriage itself is still not found — see Joanna Griffin's page for what has changed about why.
• [THE REGISTERS ARE SEARCHABLE AND STILL WILL NOT ANSWER THIS] With the Catholic parish registers now known to be indexed, both baptisms were looked for. The collection **does** cover Kerry — it produced the couple's son's Dingle baptism of January 1859. But **Fitzgerald and Griffin are the two commonest names in that corner of Kerry**, and the searches return a crowd: five plausible Maurice Fitzgeralds baptised 1828–1839, and half a dozen Joanna Griffins including one at **Dingle on 18 February 1839** to James Griffin and Joanna Kennedy. Not one can be told from the others without a discriminator this archive does not have. **This is the shape of the limit**: the unlock works where a surname pair is distinctive in a named parish, as Condon and Ryan were at Ballindangan, and fails where the names are the local wallpaper. What would cut through it is the **marriage**, which would name both fathers.
• [CONFLICT] The 1901 age 66 implies birth about 1834–35; the 1911 age 78 implies about 1832–33; the compiled profile says 1833. None has been overwritten.
• [SEPARATION] No cited record links this Caheratrant/Ventry Maurice to the distinct Limerick/Cullane–Ballylanders Fitzgerald group. Shared name and surname are not kinship evidence.
• His own baptism and parents are not in the indexed collections. He was born about 1833, before Kerry baptismal coverage becomes reliable in *Ireland, Births and Baptisms*; the Ventry register itself is the route.

References

1. [1] Civil birth registration — Ellen Fitzgerald, 6 July 1870Back to citation 1
2. [2] Civil birth registration — Patrick Fitzgerald, 15 March 1867Back to citation 2
3. [3] 1911 Ireland census — Fitzgerald household at CaheratrantBack to citation 3a Back to citation 3b Back to citation 3c
4. [4] 1901 Ireland census — Maurice Fitzgerald household at CaheratrantBack to citation 4a Back to citation 4b Back to citation 4c
5. [5] Ellen Fitzgerald birth, Ventry, 18 July 1870Back to citation 5
6. [6] Patrick Fitzgerrald christening, Dingle, 16 March 1867Back to citation 6
7. [7] Baptism of Johannes (John) Fitzgerald, Dingle, 7 January 1859Back to citation 7

See also

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