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Title: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: Marc Mc Namara on Sunday 27 March 11 23:09 BST (UK)
The attached is a census entry (Dublin 1911) and i can not identify it - the census records it as Carliey .. but there is no other matching surname!
This is her married name and attempts to identify the marriage are failing.

I'd welcome your suggestions

Thanks


Marc
Title: Re: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: GR2 on Sunday 27 March 11 23:42 BST (UK)
It definitely says Carliey. If that's her married name, is her husband's and any children's surname the same in the entry? If an ennumerator wrote it, perhaps it's a mishearing. If you can't find a marriage, try for the birth of a child, if there is one.

Graham.
Title: Re: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: crisane on Monday 28 March 11 00:05 BST (UK)
I can't find the  Carliey name on any site. However there are some named Carlley. Is it possible that the letter after the 'l' is another 'l' with a messy blob for the top loop and a faded downward stroke?
The top blob looks too big to be the dot of an í' to me.
Title: Re: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: Roecoyle on Monday 28 March 11 01:22 BST (UK)
It looks like Carlley to me.
Title: Re: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: kathb on Monday 28 March 11 10:21 BST (UK)
Agree, it looks like Carlley to me.
Regards
Kathb
Title: Re: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: Hall of Names on Monday 28 March 11 11:36 BST (UK)
Hi

Carlin was originally Irish and the first record was in County Limerick.  There was also a Bishop Carlin in County Meath in 1799.

Please do a free name search on our site www.hallofnames.org.uk

Best of luck!
Title: Re: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: Marc Mc Namara on Monday 28 March 11 16:58 BST (UK)
All,
Thanks for the input and suggestions. to address some of the suggestions - yes, she is married, but living / staying with her mother & step father - (states that she is married one year on census) so the spouse name is not there.  I have looked at 1909/1910 weddings in her maiden name of McCormack to see if i can identify the spouse - I'm still working those names.

I have looked at the handwriting of the hoseholder (Robert Woodward) for the 1901 census to see if i could identify any handwriting traits but nothing too obvious.... getting very CSI here!

Thanks
Title: Re: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: shanew147 on Monday 28 March 11 17:51 BST (UK)
dont know if it helps, but here's a good possible match for Sarah Jane with her first husband and two children on the 1901 census:

  McCormack household, Chancery Lane (http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Wood_Quay/Chancery_Lane/1340967/)
 
and possible birth of son  Albert in 1897 (http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/a2ef2e0579988) (www.irishgenealogy.ie)



Shane

   
Title: Re: Clarity on Surname please - Carlin?
Post by: weste on Monday 28 March 11 21:07 BST (UK)
Looks like carliey to me.