Christopher Monaghan Inver Parish Mount Charles

[mcghee67]

Hi Moira,

I live just outside Glasgow in a village called Chapelhall,

Christopher Monaghans wife was Mary Ward and her parents were William Ward and Bridget Gallagher,  Christophers father was also Christopher and his wifes name was Bridget Conaghan all from inver Parish, Do u know much history of the area?  My ggrandmother Bridget Monaghan and her sister Mary worked in some big house, many years ago my mother remembers talking to an old lady who knew the house they worked in and she said that you would have to be educated to work in this house, both sisters met their husbands to be while working in the house Mary Monaghan met and married the coachman Robert Perkins and they had to run away to Scotland to get married as they were of different religions, Bridget met and married Bernard Mulloy he was a sheriffs bailiff and emergency man, I think he did some work for the big house that Bridget and Mary lived in. I found an article in hansard papers about him discharging his revolver on 3 sailors who were on leave quite amusing reading

So I am trying to find the big house where they worked

Hope to hear from you soon Jane

[mmonagh]

i now live in Toronto canada originally from glasgow.
there is and was a lot of grand estates and i don't know a lot about them.
there is another monaghan family in frosses not related to me my brother has spoken to them the homestead is close to our in gargrim.

[mcghee67]

I don't know if Christopher had brothers and sisters but I would think he did have
Frosses is not a big place

Kind regards Jane

[mmonagh]

you mentione a while ago you were planning a trip did you go ?

[mcghee67]

Yes I did go and went through the main st its a very small place only 2 streets, I visited the graveyard st Marys thats were I took the pic of Patrick and Marys grave. I wish now I had asked to go through the church records

Jane

[mmonagh]

the store in town called kelly's that kelly family has been in frosses forever.
 did you by chance talk to the locals as they know the whole history.

[mcghee67]

No I didn't and I wish I did it was very quite and there was nobody around I see theres Kellys bar as well, when I looked up the griffiths valuation I noticed that Christophers father lived in a house without a garden so I think it could have been the main st and he maybe worked in one of the Mills

Jane

[mmonagh]

yea they were probable all in the pub thats another place to get information

[mcghee67]

 Patrick John b 28 Mar 1897 bap 31, Godparents Denis and Bridget Molloy

 

Patrick was a servant in a Ward household in Tullinteane, Corkermore (Bruckless), Killaghtee in 1911 - see 1911 census

 
Patrick John Molloy lived with Con and Mary Ann Ward and worked as a farm servant.

Mary Ellen Molloy lived with Connell and Catherine Ward they also had 2 children Patrick and Bernard James she worked as a domestic servant for them.

Their mother Bridget Molloy(Nee Monaghan) of Frosses had left them behind in 1908 to join her mother and father Christopher and Mary Monaghan(Nee Ward)
also of Frosses, to live in Scotland. They rejoined their mother in 1912.  I have contacted you again as I noticed you have also got Wards in your family and I was wondering if there is any connection.

Kind regards Jane