anyone help? my grandfather was born in newtown,abbey,tuam in 1904. his parents were listed as patrick o'donnell and mary v.(sheil). he was a national school teacher. ive been to the mormons and looked at irish marriages from 1881-1904 but found only 2 patricks in galway(1 in tuam). but no sheil or various spellings! any ideas? mark

There are two possibilities Mark. 1. The marriage was never registered in the civil books - common enough occurrence or, hopefully for you - 2 . they were married somewhere that you didn't think of checking. First of all, did you check all the records for all the Patricks married in Ireland - or at least the 12 districts that take in all or part of Galway for the years you looked at? If he was born in 1904, and you have an address for that year, then you could check the 1911 census - on that, the number of years that the couple have been married is listed - and as with ages, you can take a year or two eitehr side of the year that you think the marriage occurred and check those years for a marriage reference for both Patrick and Mary. If you don't find two matching refs - then the marriage was not registered Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "mark o'donnell" <mark@odoodle.fsnet.co.uk> To: <IRL-GALWAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:54 PM Subject: [GALWAY] lost a marriage > anyone help? > my grandfather was born in newtown,abbey,tuam in 1904.