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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cork => Topic started by: GMTS on Saturday 23 November 19 13:01 GMT (UK)
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I am attempting to put one Lawton family together.
From paperwork I already have, I am hoping that from individual names and dates listed below
someone may recognise the family structure.
I believe that my G/Grandmother was Cath/Kate Lawton.
She would have been born approx. 1850. However I have found at least 2 birth records between 1849 and 1852 and so I cannot confirm which one she might be.
The LAWTONS listed as being at family events are
Catherine married John SHEEHAN...………...no record of marriage found
1877 DAVID LAWTON...…Baptism Sponsor for Michael SHEEHAN
1879 MICHAEL LAWTON...Baptism Sponsor for Hanora SHEEHAN
1880 MARY COTTER [Nee LAWTON]...….. Present at death of Kate SHEEHAN [LAWTON]
1881 MARY COTTER [Nee LAWTON]....... Present at death of Hanora SHEEHAN
1913 JOHN LAWTON.......Witness at Marriage of Michael SHEEHAN and Rebecca COUGHLAN
1914 ELLEN LAWTON.....Baptism Sponsor for John SHEEHAN
1917 WILLIAM LAWTON..Baptism Sponsor for Kathleen SHEEHAN.
I am hoping that someone may have these Lawtons in their family tree. If i could tie-in any of the above with my G/Grandmother Kate/Cath Lawton it would be marvellous as it would mean I could establish who Kates parents and siblings were.
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Catherine married John SHEEHAN...………...no record of marriage found
1877 DAVID LAWTON...…Baptism Sponsor for Michael SHEEHAN
Civil birth record - Michael Sheehan - October 1877 - Main Street, Midleton. #238
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1877/02985/2093784.pdf
KG
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Thank you KG for your kind reply. I do have birth , baptism, and death records for MIchael SHEEHAN, but I am trying to put together Kate LAWTONS family (Michael's mother). I am trying to find Kate's (LAWTON) family. At this particular time I cannot verify her parents.
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www.registers.nli.ie the Carrigtwohill registers are particularly easy to read
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Hello Ballydw, thanks for replying to my post.
No housework done here this weekend 😌 I have been working on nli.
I have estimated Cath Lawtons birth to be approx 1850 ( + / - ) and have been searching with that in mind.
I have found baptisms for 5 Cath Lawtons between the years 1847 - 1850, all in either Carrigtohill or Midleton.
The one i am most interested in is
Cath Lawton, Baptism 23 December 1850 at Carrigtohill.
Parents: Michael Lawton and Cath Twomey.
I am concentrating on this one because I believe that these are also the parents of Mary Lawton (Walsh-Cotter) who was present at the death of Cath Sheehan (Lawton).
I am still searching for a marriage for Michael Lawton and Cath Twomey and also any other children they might have had.
Address: Cotter Rd, Rock
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Hi I am interested in your mention of Mary Lawton (Walsh-Cotter) all my own paternal family of Cotters originated in Carrigtwohill. I must take a look to see if there are any Lawtons in the mix.
Its a dilemma when you have a few possibilities for parents take a look at any children maybe named after grandparents which was usually a pattern that was followed. Rgds
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I would be really interested to know if your tree contains some Carrigtohill Lawtons. The Cath Lawton that I'm researching named her first daughter Hanora (born 1879) which would fit if her parents were Michael Lawton and Hanora Twomey.
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Hi,
My Great Grandfather was David Lawton (baptised 29-12-1841) of Ballyrichard, who married Ellen Lawton of Woodstock, they had seven children,
His sister Mary (baptised 1-4-1839) firstly married Thomas Walsh and had a daughter Margaret, she then married Thomas Cotter and had a son Michael.
His next sister Bridget (baptised 4-3-1865)married Patrick Wallace, Ballinabointra.
His third sister was Kate (baptised23-12-1850) who married John Sheehan.
Their parents were Michael Lawton (c.1819-1885) And Catherine Twomey (c.1820-1883)
Hope this is of help
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Welcome to RootsChat :)
My Great Grandfather was David Lawton (baptised 29-12-1841) of Ballyrichard, who married Ellen Lawton of Woodstock, they had seven children,
Here's the link to the marriage in 1875 for others to see:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1875/11198/8103845.pdf
Witnesses Patrick Lawton and Ellen Lawton (siblings or cousins?).
KG
Edited to add:
Ballyrichard (More) townland
https://www.townlands.ie/cork/barrymore/carrigtohill/carrigtohill/ballyrichard-more/
Woodstock townland
https://www.townlands.ie/cork/barrymore/carrigtohill/carrigtohill/woodstock/
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Thank you for that, Ellen Lawton was one of the Woodstock Lawtons and David from Ballyrichard I believe was her first cousin, the Church record of their marriage shows that they got a dispensation to marry, so their Fathers must have been brothers, but Ellen's father was William who married Ellen Mahony and his father was James Lawton and I am having difficulty matching up Davids father Michael as another son of James. James did have a son Michael, but he died at 10 years old in 1819. I thought maybe David's father Michael might have been born after that death, I have seen a number of families at that time who would have called a child the same name as a dead sibling.
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Many thanks to KG and Carrigfitz2021 for recent Lawton postings. Your info has enabled me for the first time to identify the structure of my Lawton family. I had numerous names but didn't know who was who.
Mary Lawton (Walsh/Cotter) and siblings were sister to my Gt Grandmother Kate Lawton.
Kate Lawton and her husband John Sheehan (shopkeepers from Main St Midleton) both died before they were 30 years old. John died in 1879, and Kate died in 1880. (Pthisis). Their daughter Hanora also died in 1881, age 16 months. Mary Cotter was present at the deaths of Kate and her daughter. Their only other child Michael Sheehan would have been approx 3 years old at the time of his parents and sister deaths. Michael was my Grandfather and I can only suspect that the Lawton family would have been involved in his upbringing but I can find no record of this.
After his birth record I have no information regarding Michael Sheehan until he enlisted in the army in 1889. I then have a record of his marriage in 1913. He married in 1913 at the Catholic Church in Midleton.
Thank you for the information you supplied.
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Hi GMTS,
Just to let you know that the Mary Cotter present at the death of Kate Sheehan was her sister Mary who had married Thomas Cotter.
Also you may have this already, it's the Coughlan family at the 1911 census
http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Middleton_Urban/Old_Cork_Road/434729/
Talk again