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I know very little. I have the military pension files, Margaret and Patrick's probable marriage registration and James's possible (but 10 years earlier) birth registration, and a probable sighting of Margaret, James and a younger brother Patrick in the 1911 census. And James's death registration in 1916 giving his age as 17, and Margaret's death registration in 1936 in her 80s.

As I read the registrar's statement, Elizabeth Moulds was a neighbour of Bridget Morgan's and went down to register Margaret's death; later, the registrar corrected the forename from Margaret to Martha. My guess - and it's only a guess - about this is that the registrar had records available to him that caused him to correct Margaret to Martha.

I don't know what St Michael's, Eglinton Road, was - that was Margaret's residence at the time of her marriage - but wonder if it might have been an orphanage or convent. But I can't find any such place in Thom's or the censuses.

I think Martha was probably her proper name. The place it appears is in a correction by the registrar on her death registration (attached).

I haven't found Patrick's death either. Drat them with their common names! And if only the Civil Records site had a street address field!

Maybe not, but our Margaret/Martha Byrne definitely lived in Clarendon Street, at various numbers in the 30s - 33, 34, 36, as a widow, so it'd be a bit of a coincidence if the 33 Clarendon Street address for a husband wasn't correct.

Wow, it does look like the right parents!
I don't know if the 10 children is correct… it seems to be crossed out and re-entered. But no, I think our Jim would be 10 years later. I wonder what happened to his brother - there's no sign of him later.
(Of course, it was quite possible in those days to have 10 children and have only two survive, for instance though the actions of Rhesus negative.)