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My great grandparents were James McClean - details unknown and Annie (Jane?) surname possibly Oliver, Jackson or Duncan (died 1955) living in the Ballyclare, Co. Antrim area. They had 3 children: Margaret Jane 31/10/1883, Mary Jackson 10/2/1891 and Joseph 9/3/1899. Can anyone provide background to this couple and when and where they were born and married?
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Hi Tallestone
This looks like a likely entry from the 1911 Irish census with Annie already a widow www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001331285/
From this entry, you have Annie showing as having been married for 28 years (up to the date of husband James' death?).
Monica :)
PS: You likely have these census entries already, but adding here for background...
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Annie already a widow by 1901 too. Years and dates not quite matching up. The 'married 28 years', maybe she wrote it down as up to 1911? Married c. 1883 maybe?
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000255664/
Given Annie's birth year, this would not likely be her birth but hopefully a sibling? https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FPYR-TPP
Monica :)
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Slim pickings I know, but is there any possibility that James McClelland who married Annie Duncan in Kilbride Church of Ireland some 7 months before Margaret Jane's birth in 1883 are the parents?
Such is a big leap, not least that the names McClelland / McClean somehow morphed together in pronunciation and record documentation.
But lots of other brick walls are hitting back, not least why the mother in the census is called Oliver - possibly remarriage(s)?
Not as simple as I first thought, you might want to ask a moderator to move it to County Antrim.