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Many thanks Carole!

I suspected this was going to be a challenge.  It had crossed my mind that Terence could have been born in Ireland.  In my searches I have come across a lot of Dunn's born in Ireland, but up to now I have discounted them. With the info that his wife Mary was born in Ireland, that's my next target.  As it happens, my dads side of the family are Irish and relocated to Liverpool in the early 1900's.

Thanks again!

Pete

Shane

Thanks a lot for the speedy response.  Don't know if you remember the possible match for Andrew's Dublin remarriage you dug up?  I sent off for the certificate which arrived today, and it was what I hoped, his occupation and the fact that he was a widower clinched it.

I'll take up your advice regarding the RC records.

thanks again!

Pete

Carole,

Thanks for trying!

I really do agree with you regarding the level of difficulty, and the pitfalls of paying for certificates in the hope they are the right one's.  In the same vein I am trying to verify Ellen's maiden name and a Dublin marriage in 1910 to grandad.  I have applied for a certificate for the best match I could get, all I know is the 1911 census showed they had been married 7 months.  If I am correct, Ellen's maiden name was Georghegan, as you discovered with post 1916 Liverpool marriages, you wouldn't believe how many Ellen's married an Andrew O'Brien in Jul-Sep 1910 Dublin.  It may all be a futile exercise, as apparently grandad's second marriage so soon after my paternal gran died, caused a great deal of angst in the family. As my dad was only nine when his mother died, he was apparently significantly less than enthusiastic to get a new mother only a year later.  This probably means few if any of the family remained in contact with Ellen, for as far as I know she had no children with Andrew.

Thanks again, if the certificate I have ordered throws up anything interesting, I'll let you know.

Rgds

Pete

Hi,

I'm trying to find out what happened to my grandfathers second wife, after they moved from Dublin to Liverpool some time after 1911.  My grandfather, Andrew O'Brien died of TB on 23 July 1916, and at the time he and his wife were living at 9 Hemer Place Bootle Merseyside.  It is possible that my father Peter and his sister Eveline were living at the same address, in 1916 they would have been 16 and 11 respectively. The death certificate records that Andrew's wife Ellen O'Brien was with him at the time of death, and reported the death.   The death certificate shows my grandfathers age as 50 at the time of death.  However, the 1911 census for Dublin shows my grandfather being 49 and Ellen 33, so approximately five years later their ages would have been 54 and 38.

Would appreciate any info that helps move this side of the family history on a bit.

Thanks!

Pete

Thanks Shane,

It may not be the correct match, bit it is a lot closer than I got!  Other than ordering the marriage cert, which I will do if it is correct. Is there any way I can find out what info is on the marriage certificate before ordering a copy?  Although unemployed at the time of the 1911 census, Andrew was a Pavior which appears on both the 1901 census, and his death certificate.

Thanks again!

Pete