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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: The 'Stafford' O'Neills of Rocktown / Ballymacpeake
« on: Monday 09 November 20 17:41 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for your message! Yes I did spot the sponsors (Margey and Mulholland) a few years back when I first started researching them and that is who the Mulholland in the tree references, though no hints have appeared on Ancestry to help me substantiate that! The Denis Mulholland had a son George and I put him in the tree as well to see if that would kickstart any thru lines but to date it has not. I may change it to Margey!
As you will have noticed every single entry on that wedding record had dispensations (usually re: Banns). Where they were cousins of any degree it is usually noted (and there are examples of that on the records). Frustratingly there is no indication on Catherine and John's wedding record (as there is on the one above them) of them being cousins at all.
I have checked my DNA with Paul's and there is no indication that we are related at all or that he is related to any of my other Rocktown O'Neills. Interestingly though he does seem to have a connection with a number of my McCloskey cousins over that side of Derry and there are some O'Neills in that line as well that he may be related to. Thanks again.
As you will have noticed every single entry on that wedding record had dispensations (usually re: Banns). Where they were cousins of any degree it is usually noted (and there are examples of that on the records). Frustratingly there is no indication on Catherine and John's wedding record (as there is on the one above them) of them being cousins at all.
I have checked my DNA with Paul's and there is no indication that we are related at all or that he is related to any of my other Rocktown O'Neills. Interestingly though he does seem to have a connection with a number of my McCloskey cousins over that side of Derry and there are some O'Neills in that line as well that he may be related to. Thanks again.