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Hi Sophie

That's interesting as the ones that I've looked at: Catherine, James, John and Thomas all show their father as a farmer or farm labourer and still alive. I'll carry on searching.

I've only been able to find John and Thomas in the 1911 census and Thomas's birthplace is shown as Barhre Co Mayo and John's is Clonemore Co Mayo. Neither place appears to exist though there is a Cloonmore with a Ballagh Street so that could be a candidate. The problem is proving a link between them all. 

I tried to attach a file with the Lavin marriage details that I have - first attempt but it didn't work. I'll have a go at converting it to another format bear with me.

Hi Heywood

It is indeed the Lavins I'm looking for at the moment. Catherine Lavin my g g grandmother was from Mayo and she had at least one brother James that I know of and possibly two more John and Thomas. They all migrated to England and I assume never returned to Ireland. A John Hannan was godfather to one of John's children and Catherine's husband had an uncle called John Hannan. The Hannans were from "Tomina" in Mayo possibly now in Roscommon and not too far from Cloonmore. Perhaps they're related?

I'll keep searching.

Thanks

Thanks Guys

I'd emailed the Sligo tourist office and they said that it was in Caltragh and I was able to find it using the google map. Using google the only hit I'd been able to get was excavations.ei saying that nothing of archaeological significance had been found on the site of a proposed car park on Newtownholmes Road - which sounds about right for my lot. Apart form the car park it looks to be a rural area now.

Thanks for the links I'll work through them and hopefully get lucky.

Hi Sophie

I'll see if I can find your John's birth. I've had a look at the 1871 and 1881 census records for Ardsley but didn't find any Lavins so if there were family there it may have only been for a short time. I'll look at Barnsley later.

I'm not aware of any Lancashire connections but apart from Catherine Lavin's name and that she came from Mayo nothing else has passed down through the family. I'm originally from Batley and still have family living there but I've never come across anyone called Lavin which is surprising given the number who lived in Batley in the 1870s. However I've had real trouble finding the males in the census records and one explanation might be that they were moving round trying to find work.

There was one family of Lavins in nearby Birstall (now in the Borough of Batley) who hailed from Kilkelly in Mayo which is a village near Knock but so far I have been unable to establish a link with my Lavins.

Hinsley House is owned by Leeds Diocese and the original records for St Mary are held there unfortunately nothing is held in an electronic format though you can visit. I went and took details of all of the entries I could find for all the various surnames of my forebears including anything that looked like Lavin. I have a sort of spreadsheet that helped me piece things together and I'll try and attach a version with just the Lavins on that you might find interesting - bear with me though as it might not be until the weekend. Mine is also in English whereas the records are in Latin.

I would be interested to know what appears on the wedding certificate when you get it especially whether Patrick was still alive and what his profession was.

Regards,
Gellies