Irish Times Nov 14 1905 COUNTY DOWN CENTENARIAN'S DEATH Yesterday the funeral took place of James M'Darragh of Mayo-bridge, County Down, who when he died was in his one hundred and third year. He was intelligent hard-working man, who lived all his life on his farm, and a few days before his death was moving about as usual. Note: Odd--I can't find any McDarraghs in Mayo townland in 1901 and I don't find the name in Ros Davies Surnames Database either.

Hi Nan On further research, the dead man's name was actually John McAdarra, he lived in Aughnagun, which is a townland near Mayobridge. He married Margaret Carr on 7 May 1841 in Clonallan parish and had 7 children. 6 of his children ended up in Jarrow, Co Durham but his daughter Catherine stayed behind to look after her parents. She died in 1914 although she is missing from the 1911 census. In the 1901 census, both John and Kate's ages are way off target, he is younger by 12 years and and Kate has wiped 18 years off her age. Deirdre -----Original Message----- From: nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nan Brennan Sent: 24 October 2010 10:37 To: countyDownGenealogy@yahoogroups.com; nir-down@rootsweb.com Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Centenarian's death Mayobridge 1905 James M'Darragh Irish Times Nov 14 1905 COUNTY DOWN CENTENARIAN'S DEATH Yesterday the funeral took place of James M'Darragh of Mayo-bridge, County Down, who when he died was in his one hundred and third year. He was intelligent hard-working man, who lived all his life on his farm, and a few days before his death was moving about as usual. Note: Odd--I can't find any McDarraghs in Mayo townland in 1901 and I don't find the name in Ros Davies Surnames Database either. -------------------------------------------------- 472 list members as of 1 Aug 2010. -------------------------------------------------- Searchable list archive at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NIR-DOWN ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message IBI Corporate Finance Limited is a subsidiary of Bank of Ireland Group. IBI Corporate Finance Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individuals or entities to whom they are addressed. If you are not an intended recipient of this email, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender (and info@ibicorporatefinance.ie) that you have received it in error. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, IBI Corporate Finance (or any other member of Bank of Ireland Group) does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. IBI Corporate Finance Limited, 40 Mespil Road, Dublin 4. Registered in Ireland. Registered Number 89053.