Don't you sometimes wish you hadn't got out of bed in the morning?
I am trying to research my husband's family.
His father, Francis Joseph Cassidy, was born in 1903 in Rathfriland, Co. Down, N. Ireland (Reg.Dist: Newry) - d 1949 Rathfriland, Co. Down - Occ: Draper
Paternal Grandfather: James Cassidy - b1871 probably Fermanagh/Tyrone - d 1942 Newry, Co. Down - m - Ellen McGeough in 1903 (HIS father Francis was still alive in 1903 as he signed the marriage certificate)
Significantly (I think), James Cassidy named his first two children Francis and Ann.
James Cassidy supposedly told my Mother-in-Law that he came from Fivemiletown, which is Tyrone with a probable Registration District of Clogher - I can find nothing for him there and I have tried many and varied sites.
I do know from one of the census (Irish) that James Cassidy was doing his Drapery apprenticeship in Clones, Co. Fermanagh and I found his soon to be wife on a census there also. She came (Ellen McGeough) from Forkhill, Co. Armagh but was working as a houseservant for a family in Clones. I have their marriage details from their marriage in Dundalk, Co. Lough in 1903.
Since finding the birth of a James b 1871 I have now found a birth for a Patt Cassiday [sic] presumably Patrick - parents Francis Cassiday and Anne McQuaid - I strongly suspect "Notty" mentioned above must have been Anne - goodness knows how - perhaps I just want her to be. However, the address for birth registration is slightly different - dob 1.4.1865. Place: 0183, Irvinestown, Fermanagh.
I really do not have a clue how to confirm this lot and I am sure there were more than 2 children. I think that Francis Cassidy the elder may have died in 1917 - saw something somewhere and forgot to write it down.
I understand RC and C of I and other records may be held in different places so just in case, the above is an RC family.
Any help, inspiring words or miracles will be gratefully received.
Sue
Batch nos. for FSOrg finds: Patt Cassiday C70125-7, James Cassidy C70144-2 and also for James Cassidy C01405-7.
I have now found on FSOrg a birth for a James Cassidy b 1871 in Irvinestown No. 1, Ferm, Ire..[sic]. His parents are Francis Cassidy and ?"Notty" McQuaid. I have no idea what No.1 means in the birthplace.
{not sure why the bit immediately above is sitting here - it must have jumped! - I have left it just in case!
I am trying to research my husband's family.
His father, Francis Joseph Cassidy, was born in 1903 in Rathfriland, Co. Down, N. Ireland (Reg.Dist: Newry) - d 1949 Rathfriland, Co. Down - Occ: Draper
Paternal Grandfather: James Cassidy - b1871 probably Fermanagh/Tyrone - d 1942 Newry, Co. Down - m - Ellen McGeough in 1903 (HIS father Francis was still alive in 1903 as he signed the marriage certificate)
Significantly (I think), James Cassidy named his first two children Francis and Ann.
James Cassidy supposedly told my Mother-in-Law that he came from Fivemiletown, which is Tyrone with a probable Registration District of Clogher - I can find nothing for him there and I have tried many and varied sites.
I do know from one of the census (Irish) that James Cassidy was doing his Drapery apprenticeship in Clones, Co. Fermanagh and I found his soon to be wife on a census there also. She came (Ellen McGeough) from Forkhill, Co. Armagh but was working as a houseservant for a family in Clones. I have their marriage details from their marriage in Dundalk, Co. Lough in 1903.
Since finding the birth of a James b 1871 I have now found a birth for a Patt Cassiday [sic] presumably Patrick - parents Francis Cassiday and Anne McQuaid - I strongly suspect "Notty" mentioned above must have been Anne - goodness knows how - perhaps I just want her to be. However, the address for birth registration is slightly different - dob 1.4.1865. Place: 0183, Irvinestown, Fermanagh.
I really do not have a clue how to confirm this lot and I am sure there were more than 2 children. I think that Francis Cassidy the elder may have died in 1917 - saw something somewhere and forgot to write it down.
I understand RC and C of I and other records may be held in different places so just in case, the above is an RC family.
Any help, inspiring words or miracles will be gratefully received.
Sue
Batch nos. for FSOrg finds: Patt Cassiday C70125-7, James Cassidy C70144-2 and also for James Cassidy C01405-7.
I have now found on FSOrg a birth for a James Cassidy b 1871 in Irvinestown No. 1, Ferm, Ire..[sic]. His parents are Francis Cassidy and ?"Notty" McQuaid. I have no idea what No.1 means in the birthplace.
{not sure why the bit immediately above is sitting here - it must have jumped! - I have left it just in case!
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