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Mayo / Re: Thomas and Julia (McCormick) O’Malley
« on: Saturday 27 April 13 16:01 BST (UK)  »
Bit of a long shot - my gg grandfather is Patrick McCormick/McCormack who was born in around 1811, I think in Ballinrobe. He emigrated to Nottingham in the late 1840's and was married to a Catherine/Bridget who is listed on a child's birth certificate as Heives/Hewes but I think might be Hughes. Could Patrick be a sibling of Julia?

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Mayo / Re: McCormack - Patrick & Bridget/Catherine
« on: Friday 22 February 13 14:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Haywood

Again many thanks for your response.
I agree, it would be useful to get more info on Catherine and will see if I can obtain a copy birth certificate for one of Martin's siblings to see if the maiden name is any clearer.

I am not now so sure that Catherine is the best route to my establishing the Co Mayo link, given that it seems that the marriage was after the family arrived in Nottingham. Your comments to another post have however helped enormously. You suggested that the 1911 census might give more information to the place of a persons birth. I have been fortunate in that one of Patrick's sons born in Ireland (Roger) was still alive at that time and the entry for him has been translated as country of birth Ireland - Mays. However when I view the actual entry, it looks very much like Mayo to me. Interestingly his wife, who was also still alive in 1911, was also listed as having been born in Mayo. Which would indicate, to me at least, that the Irish community in Nottingham stayed quite close in the early days. As such I now feel that I have confirmation that my family did indeed come over to England from Mayo. Very much a eureka moment for me.

My next task is to try to establish whereabouts in Co Mayo they may have lived. Are you aware of any resource which might indicate that McCormacks might have lived in a particular town/parish? From some of the sites that I have found on the net, the name or its derivatives do not seem to be particularly common in the area. I might however be looking in the wrong places of course.

I don't think that the 1858 marriage will be relevant as the related names are not ones that I have previously come across - although I am learning to keep an open mind.

Regards
Mack
 

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Mayo / Re: McCormack - Patrick & Bridget/Catherine
« on: Wednesday 20 February 13 22:37 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Heywood

Many thanks for your response.

Your presumption is correct -this is my family. The 1851 census info however is new to me and I am grateful for your bringing it to my attention. I am quite new to this sort of thing and am kicking my self for forgetting to extend a search to include the McCormick variation of the surname. The Patrick McCormick listed as a lodger would seem to be my relative, but it does raise a couple of interesting questions if he was indeed a widower at this time. This would indicate that he married Bridget/ Catherine when he was in England. A quick search has found a record of a marriage of a Catherine McCormack in Nottingham in 1855, which would fit with the birth of my great grandfather Martin in 1857. Unfortunately the database that i have access to does not mention the spouse.

I have seen the birth certificate of my great grandfather and this is where I have picked up the possible surname Heives or Hewes for Bridget/Catherine(I'm afraid that it is not clear.). The birth cert names Catherine (not Bridget). Do you know whether either the name Heives or Hewes features in Ireland and Co. Mayo in particular. I may try to obtain sight of the birth certificate of one of his siblings to see if the maiden name is clearer.

I have recently ordered a copy of Patrick's death certificate and hope to find the identity of the informant in the next week or so.

The possible Co. Mayo connection has come from another of your correspondents, although I have been unable to find any connection myself. Again do you know if the McCormack name or its variations feature in the area.

Again many thanks for your help - I am finding it a fascinating experience researching my family and would really like to place them in Ireland. I imagine that they moved to England during the famine, which I understand was particularly bad in Co. Mayo.

Kind regards
Mack

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Mayo / McCormack - Patrick & Bridget/Catherine
« on: Tuesday 19 February 13 16:21 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for any information about Patrick and Bridget McCormack who may or may not have been born in Co Mayo. He was born in around 1811 and Died in 1868 in Nottingham. He married Bridget who also may have been known as Catherine, I believe in Ireland. Bridget/Catherine's maiden name was something like Hewes or Heives. I cannot find any record of Bridget Catherine's death in Nottingham, she lived there in 1871 and wonder if she moved back to Ireland after that date. Can any one out there help?

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Mayo / Re: McCormack Family who emigrated to Nottingham (1849-1853)
« on: Saturday 24 November 12 13:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Many thanks for getting back to me.

I think that i have found the pictures that you refer to when I "googled" Martin McCormack Nottingham and found the information that you have posted - but thanks for the offer any way. With out provenance i have placed a question mark against them however. Non the less it is interesting to see what ones ancestors might have looked like. If it is not too personal a question are you able today how you found them?

Also i am new to this sort of thing and am very grateful for your having posted your findings on the internet. I was struggling to find Martin's second wife's maiden name and your research pointed me in the direction of Harvey which has opened a whole new surname to get my teeth into.

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Mayo / Re: McCormack Family who emigrated to Nottingham (1849-1853)
« on: Friday 23 November 12 10:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I am a relative of the McCormack family that moved to Leicester from Nottingham

My relative is Martin McCormack (Bricklayer) whose son Thomas was born towards the end of the 19th c to his second wife Eliza (nee Harvey) - I believe that there was also an earlier Thomas who was the son of his first wife. Eliza died in December 1938 and her death was noted to the registrar by another son A J McCormack

I would be particularly interested to learn more about Eliza's Thomas as my family lost touch with him in the 1930's

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