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Title: Help deciphering Mary Floyd's Maiden Surname Please
Post by: ajo20 on Monday 07 November 22 18:33 GMT (UK)
I would be grateful for any help in deciphering entry 96 / marriage of Thomas Floyd please

The mother of Thomas is Mary Floyd M S ???

Thank you
Sandra
Title: Re: Help deciphering Mary Floyd's Maiden Surname Please
Post by: emeltom on Monday 07 November 22 18:53 GMT (UK)
Possibly McRorie
Title: Re: Help deciphering Mary Floyd's Maiden Surname Please
Post by: MonicaL on Monday 07 November 22 22:02 GMT (UK)
Sandra, were the family Roman Catholic? Given Thomas's birth place, this might be his birth & baptism:

Thomas FLOOD
THOMAS FLOOD/MARY MCGREARY
5/10/1843
12/10/1843
Dumbarton, St Patrick's

A sister:

Margaret FLOOD
THOMAS FLOOD/MARY MCGRORY
22/4/1841
2/5/1841
Greenock, St Mary's

You are going to have fun with spelling variants on mother Mary's maiden name  ::). Another RC birth entry:

Bridget FLOOD
THOMAS FLOOD/MARY MCRORY
20/1/1854
3/2/1854
Port Glasgow, St John's

Monica

Title: Re: Help deciphering Mary Floyd's Maiden Surname Please
Post by: ajo20 on Monday 07 November 22 23:19 GMT (UK)
Hi

Thank you both for your replies.

I can kind of see McRorie, it's very difficult for me to decipher so I really appreciate your help.

Thomas was born in Bonhill, Dumbartonshire in 1844.  He moved from Ireland just a few years before with his parents and older sister Mary Ann (born Ireland 1839).  Which part of Ireland I'm not too sure although DNA points heavily to Co Mayo and more concentrated to Achill Island.

Thomas and Mary Ann Corrigan/Kerrigan were married in St Patrick's RC Chapel, so one or both must have been Catholics.

He moved his family to North Shields and sadly drowned in the River Tyne in 1892

I will explore the suggestions of the surname Flood

Thanks again for your help

Sandra
Title: Re: Help deciphering Mary Floyd's Maiden Surname Please
Post by: sparrett on Tuesday 08 November 22 04:06 GMT (UK)
I think it is written as McKorie

Sue
Title: Re: Help deciphering Mary Floyd's Maiden Surname Please
Post by: Dundee on Tuesday 08 November 22 04:30 GMT (UK)
Quote from: ajo20 on Monday 07 November 22 23:19 GMT (UK)

Thomas was born in Bonhill, Dumbartonshire in 1844.  He moved from Ireland just a few years before with his parents and older sister Mary Ann (born Ireland 1839). 

How could he move from Ireland when he wasn't born?

Debra  :)
Title: Re: Help deciphering Mary Floyd's Maiden Surname Please
Post by: ajo20 on Tuesday 08 November 22 09:47 GMT (UK)
Oops!

I meant his family moved from Ireland.

That’s what I get for messaging late at night!

Sandra  :D