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Quote from: McDonnell86 on Thursday 20 December 12 23:27 GMT (UK)

Putting both names into familysearch.org gives you this result.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYQ1-WJX
A William Wallace married in Ballymoney, between Jan - Mar 1878.
Yet there is a Sarah Montgomery who is not listed as marrying until later that year...
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYQ5-ZTL
Hope this helps a bit. Familysearch.org is a useful site, once you put in enough detail to filter out the incorrect ones.

Please ignore this information. For it to be the correct marriage there are certain details which MUST match- quarter/year, registration district, volume and page numbers.

Ballymacool is in the Poor Law Union/Registration district of Letterkenny, although that doesn't mean the marriage took place there- remember that marriages usually tak place in the bride's church.

Hopefully some will be able to find the correct marriage but I'm off to wander around our lovely new-look Rootschat 

P.S.- it looks like the 1878 marriage for William Wallace quoted about took place in the registration district of Ballymoney, County Antrim which is nowhere near Donegal.

I was aware of the mismatched information, hence my use of "yet." I would only say that a match is a match if it has the information you list above.

We should probably take some human error into account of course, both at the time and at the digitization stage? But this isn't the place for such debate I think!

Thanks for the clarifications aghadowey and best of luck with your search lil growler! 

Hi. Apologies for the thread necromancy but I thought it better than starting a new thread.

To clarify, is Manor Vaughan the name of the estate upon which Mulroy House stands, as home to the Earls of Leitrim? I was reading about the killing of Lord Leitrim and the newspapers always referred to his home as Manor Vaughan, not Mulroy House..

In addition to Google Maps, I am looking at the OSI maps (The historic 25" one to be specific) and it has Mulroy House marked on it, just east of Carrigart. Closer to the Carrigart-Milford road is Manor Vaughan school.

Thanks