I have just started doing my husbands tree and am stuck already LOL!!
His mothers birth certificate states her mother was a catherine rooney. on catherine rooneys marriage certificate it states her father as Hugh Rooney a dockworker. the marriage took place in Liverpool on the 22nd of February 1905 and catherine says she is 21.
I found a catholic baptism for a catherine rooney with father hugh rooney and mother margaret ward (great it gives mothers maiden name) this states that catherine was born on the 21st of November 1883 and bapt on the 17th of december 1883. I can find no birth reg for catherine either in the last quarter of 1883 or the first quarter of 1884.
I did then find a catholic marriage for a Hugh Rooney and margaret ward in 1888. am wondering even though by law she should have been registered she wasn't as the parents were not married. My lot all lied through their back teeth but perhaps Margaret could not tell such lies??!!
I have found Hugh and Margaret Rooney on the 1891 listed as Hugh and Maggie with a Kate Rooney and think this is them, they are not together on the 1901. on the 1911 Hugh and Margaret state that they have had 4 children 3 of whom have lived. Well two sons are at home, I found a baptism of a daughter who later died and then there would have been Catherine who married in 1905. so all this ties in. BUT would love to get her actual birth certificate just to cross the T's and dot the I's!!
any help in finding the birth or if some kind soul could just confim my thoughts I would be very grateful. I don't want to go off track at the very beginning!!
Many thanks
His mothers birth certificate states her mother was a catherine rooney. on catherine rooneys marriage certificate it states her father as Hugh Rooney a dockworker. the marriage took place in Liverpool on the 22nd of February 1905 and catherine says she is 21.
I found a catholic baptism for a catherine rooney with father hugh rooney and mother margaret ward (great it gives mothers maiden name) this states that catherine was born on the 21st of November 1883 and bapt on the 17th of december 1883. I can find no birth reg for catherine either in the last quarter of 1883 or the first quarter of 1884.
I did then find a catholic marriage for a Hugh Rooney and margaret ward in 1888. am wondering even though by law she should have been registered she wasn't as the parents were not married. My lot all lied through their back teeth but perhaps Margaret could not tell such lies??!!
I have found Hugh and Margaret Rooney on the 1891 listed as Hugh and Maggie with a Kate Rooney and think this is them, they are not together on the 1901. on the 1911 Hugh and Margaret state that they have had 4 children 3 of whom have lived. Well two sons are at home, I found a baptism of a daughter who later died and then there would have been Catherine who married in 1905. so all this ties in. BUT would love to get her actual birth certificate just to cross the T's and dot the I's!!
any help in finding the birth or if some kind soul could just confim my thoughts I would be very grateful. I don't want to go off track at the very beginning!!
Many thanks
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