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Title: Mackays (sp) from Dromore/Magherally
Post by: bonnie dundee on Saturday 15 April 23 14:49 BST (UK)
I am looking for Catherine Mackay born around 1839. She died in Dundee in Scotland in 1840.
Her father was Patrick. He was a linen wea ver.
Title: Re: Mackays (sp) from Dromore/Magherally
Post by: Milliepede on Saturday 15 April 23 15:29 BST (UK)
What information exactly are you looking for?  If she died 1840 she was only a baby so there won't be much to find sadly.
Title: Re: Mackays (sp) from Dromore/Magherally
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Saturday 15 April 23 16:03 BST (UK)

What religion was your Catherine Mackay?

How do you know that she was born around 1839?

The civil parishes of Dromore and Magherally adjoin one another and have a total area of over 40 square miles.

https://www.townlands.ie/down/dromore/
https://www.townlands.ie/down/magherally1/


Title: Re: Mackays (sp) from Dromore/Magherally
Post by: bonnie dundee on Saturday 15 April 23 17:08 BST (UK)
Thanks Milliepede and Kiltaglassan.
I'm just wondering if there could be any information out there. She was definitely born in Ireland and I have some idea her family was from the above areas in County Down.
She was RC. I know she was was born around 1839 because her death certificate
shows her age as 40.  She died in 1880.
She was my gt grandmother.
Title: Re: Mackays (sp) from Dromore/Magherally
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Saturday 15 April 23 18:37 BST (UK)

Since she was Catholic, there are Catholic registers online from the National Library of Ireland Catholic Registers collection.

Here are the NLI Catholic parish registers for:

Dromore
Diocese of Dromore | County of Down
Variant forms of parish name:
Dromore and Garvaghey
Garvaghey
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0446

Seapatrick
Diocese of Dromore | County of Down
Variant forms of parish name:
Seepatrick, Banbridge
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0456

Tullylish
Diocese of Dromore | County of Down
Variant forms of parish name:
Clare and Gilford, Magherally, Gilford
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0440


Title: Re: Mackays (sp) from Dromore/Magherally
Post by: bonnie dundee on Saturday 15 April 23 19:19 BST (UK)
Thanks, Kiltaglassan