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Hi Madelaine
Just for the future, if you look to the left of the screen you will see TOP TIPS and 'my threads'.
In 'my threads' will bring up your posts and any you have answered. It saves a lot of time searching days or weeks before.
Regards
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Hi Kathryn B.
Thank you for that info. sorry about my delay in replying, To be honest I get myself in a muddle trying to find my way around the GR site. and had never found my way back to my original message to see if anyone had replied. I have in the past come across Francis McGronan and his wife Rose Anne Haughey and I too wondered if he was a brother of my Sarah but I have been no nearer to proving it.
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Hi Maddy -- I'm late to the party (just ran across your post when surfing for a name that appears in it) and am generally no use at all for Irish stuff ... but I wondered whether you'd seen this in the IGI:
SARAH ANNE MCGRONAN
Birth: 15 APR 1866 , Tyrone, Ireland
Father: FRANCIS MCGRONAN
Mother: ROSE ANNE HAUGHEY
Batch No.: C011841
I'd just searched for Sarah McGronan, anywhere anytime, and that was the only result -- obviously not your Sarah, but possibly a niece? It seems rather an unusual surname ... but then I'm not Irish. ;)
That batch seems to cover only 1866; only the one McGronan in it, but some Connelly/Connollys.
Searching for any births to Francis McGronan and Rose, there are:
1. Francis John McGronan - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Birth: 01 MAY 1879 Carry Castle, , Tyrone, Ireland
2. Lucy McGronan - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Birth: 20 SEP 1876 Dungannon, Tyrone, Ireland
3. SARAH ANNE MCGRONAN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Birth: 15 APR 1866 , Tyrone, Ireland
4. CATHERINE MC GRONAN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Birth: 17 SEP 1868 , Tyrone, Ireland
5. SUSAN MC GRONAN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Birth: 17 SEP 1868 , Tyrone, Ireland
6. PATRICK JOSEPH MC GRONAN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Birth: 24 MAR 1871 , Tyrone, Ireland
You never know; tracking any of them down might lead to some info.
Someone here at GR has a Susan McGronan born 1820 in her tree (and also a James born 1790). That Francis has daughters Susan and Sarah. Might they be named after his sisters?
There are also some McGronans in Wexford:
1. JOHN THOMAS MCGRONAN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Birth: 19 DEC 1865 0908, Wexford, Wexford, Ireland
2. MARY JANE MC GRONAN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Birth: 30 MAR 1868 , Wexford, Ireland
but the names don't jibe as nicely. ;)
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I have been doing my family history off and on for almost twenty years, yet in all that time I have had no joy tracing my Great Grandparents roots in Ireland even a paid researcher had no luck. My Great Grandfather was Bernard Connolly his wife was Sarah maiden surname McGronan. They were married in Ireland and had their first daughter Mary Ann there - they were Roman Catholics.They arrived in Paisley Scotland in 1862 where their second child Sarah was born. I have an extract of her birth entry and it was these details I gave to the Irish researcher. Though I thought the parents year of marriage doubtful being 26years before this birth of their second child. The following details were on birth cert.
Sarah Conelley (sic) when and where born 1862 March 29th 7pm 3 Bridge Lane Maxwellton Paisley. Parents Details Bernard Conelley Iron Miner. Sarah Conelley Maiden Surname McGronan marriage date 1836 January 7th Dungannon (Ireland). Informant Alice McGill her X mark neighbour (present)
I later obtained from Scotlandspeople a copy of the actual birth entry and the year of the parent's marriage actually appeared to be 1856. From Scotland they moved to Wallsend on Tyne Northumberland and there they remained. In the 1871 census of Little Benton Bigges Main the family were as follows;
Barnard Conly (sic) age 30 born Ireland
Sally Conly wife age 40 born Ireland
Mary Conly daughter age 14 born Ireland
John son 10months born Northumberland
Sally daughter age 8 born Scotland
Patrick son age 6 born Northumberland
Barnard son age 5 born Northumberland
I have the death certificates for my Gt Grandparents. Sarah Conley (sic) died 26th August 1881 aged 51 so her birth year about 1830 (so definitely not married 1836) her husband Bernard Connolly (sic) died 24th October 1910 aged 75years so born about 1835.
I always promised my dad I'd find out for him where his grandparents originated from. He died in 1998 aged 91 not knowing, this Month (Nov 2007) I become a pensioner it would be my best present if someone out there directed me to the parish in Ireland where my Gt Grandparents Married and where their first child was baptised. All this time we thought it was Dungannon County Tyrone but perhaps those details from the Scottish Birth Cert. were just a "Red Herring". My apologies for such a long posting. But hope there is a better ancestral detective out there than what I've been.
Maddy Simpson
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