Bansha Birth

[aghadowey]

Also 'Kil' and 'Gil' at the start of Irish/Scottish surnames are often interchangable.

[mags]

Thank you Aghadowey,  but it is very confusing, do people not take one 'kil' or 'Gil' and stick to it.?
but that information is very useful to know, thank you.

[aghadowey]

The spelling of surnames vary greatly according to how literate a person was, their accent (especially if they moved to another area/country) and the person writing down the name.
McElfatricks in my connection are also written as Kilpatrick and Kirkpatrick and it didn't help that they went to Australia and then Canada.

[Christopher]

... they got married in the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin.

Hello Mags,

There's not a Cathedral for members of the Roman Catholic faith in Dublin but there
is St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral which is located at 83, Marlborough Street in the city.

Christopher

[mags]

Hi Christopher, yes they got married in St, Mary's Pro-Cathedral in
Dublin, but I wondered why there and the woman at St. Mary's couldn't say, it could have been my grandmothers local church at that time, was all she could have guessed.
Can you explain to me the difference. I know there is Christ's Church Cathedral, I used to pass it every day going into town but never went into it and know also where the Pro-Cathedral is but again had no reason or maybe no time to go in. I know important people like S.T. O'Kelly, and Michael Collins funerals were held there
and they were of the Catholic faith,. what I would like to know is,
would my grandparents have gotten married there because my grand mother was not a Catholic ? the marriage took place in 1903 or how will I be able to find out.

[Christopher]

There are two C of I Cathedrals in Dublin ... Christ Church and St Patricks. There is not a Catholic Cathedral but St Mary's parish church has been a temporary cathedral or co-cathedral of the diocese. As Wikipedia says Mary's Pro-Cathedral has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland since the Reformation when the other Cathedrals in the city became part of the Church of Ireland.

It looks as though Margaret  O'Sullivan was a member of the Catholic faith.

[wizard1]

Am I right in thinking that Mags was under the impression that Pro- was an abbreviation for Protestant?

Peter.

[mags]

Thanks Christopher, lol I get more confused the more I learn, lol
it's very nice of you to try to help.

[mags]

Hi Peter, no I wasn't under that impression lol, but I thought it
was an all faiths Cathedral, so I will just now think it was my grandmothers local church at the time of her marriage.
Thanks for your interest and help.