Hi Dathai. Really appreciate your response. Many thanks. What muddies the waters slightly is that there was also a family of Eddy's on the Ards peninsula at the same time. Some of these have the same names but can be separated out as they have siblings with different names born at the same time. Is there any way to check the spouses name on this certificate before I go to Dublin to get it? What worries me is the date of the marriage is 1877. The Hugh Eadie that I want had a daughter Maryann born on Dec 28 1876 in Bureaugh Kircubbin, a son John born on Dec 25 1877 and Robert who is my direct ancestor who was born on Jan 22 1880. On Maryann's birth certificate it already has Matilda with Eadie as the surname and McKeown as her maiden name. So I would have expected the marriage before 1876. Matilda was born in 1853 and died in 1918. Do you know of a way of checking the maiden name of the spouse on the Hugh Eddy marriage certificate before I go to Dublin?
