Information Thomas P Coughlan-Mary Dunne Coughlan ca 1881

[heartman48]

I am seeking information about Thomas P and Mary Dunne Coughlan, parents of Margaret Mary Coughlan, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare born 28/2/1881.  Thomas was a lock keeper.  Margaret Mary emigrated to NYC, USA ca 1899.  Had a sister named Catherine.  Margaret Mary is my grandmother.

[shanew147]

This looks like the best match for a birth for Margaret on the BMD Index :

 Name: Margaret Coughlan
 Registration district: Athy
 Event type: Birth
 Quarter and year: Jan-Mar 1881
 Volume : 3/ Page : 348

The town of Monastrevin is in the civil registration district of Athy.

A birth cert would give you more details to allow you check if this is the correct record, such as date & place of birth, father's name and occupation, mother's maiden name etc, and may assist starting a searching further back - e.g for her parents marriage.

see :

 Introduction to Irish Records
 Ordering Certs from GRO Roscommon
 Details included on a Birth Cert



Shane

[shanew147]

Margaret and possible siblings from an extracted record collection on familysearch :

 Eliza Coughlan / 04 Nov 1870 / Monastrevan / Ref. 421 (page number in register)
 Mary Coughlan / 01 Mar 1872 / Co. Kildare
 Anne Coughlan / 20 Nov 1873 / Monasterevan, Co. Kildare
 Margret Coughlan / 28 Feb 1881 / Coolnefera, Co. Kildare

Parents names for the above - Thomas Coughlan and  Mary Dunne


Shane

[PatB71]

"Coughlans Lock" is a well known lock gate in Monasterevin its where the Mountmellick branch of the Grand Canal ends,and there are still members of the Coughlan family still living at the lock..not sure if you were already aware of this or not.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000900489/
Here is the record of Thomas + Jane in the 1901 Census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002558632/
And again in 1911..appears that Thomas was born in Co. Offaly (Kings County)


http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&familyname=&firstname=&offset=20&countyname=&parishname=&parishname&unionname=&baronyname=&totalrows=49&PlaceID=628457&wildcard=

And here in the Griffiths Valuations printed 1852 we see a John Coughlin in Coolnafearagh working for the Grand Canal

[shanew147]

a possible marriage reference for Thomas and Mary from the BMD INdex :

 Name Thomas Coghlan
 Registration district: Athy
 Event type: Marriage
 Year:   1869
 Volume : 18 / Page : 318

 name: Mary Dunne
 [same index details as Thomas]



Shane

[PatB71]

http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipmanifest.asp?MID=08172726160927489728&LNM=COUGHLAN&PLNM=COUGHLAN&CGD=F&bSYR=1879&bEYR=1883&first_kind=1&last_kind=0&TOWN=null&SHIP=null&RF=55&pID=602585020095

Cant be sure this is related to you but heres a Mary and Katie Coughlin arriving in NY IN 1898 ,looks like they were going to their sister Annie.

http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup_weif_5a.asp?src=%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Ftif2gif%2Eexe%3FT%3D%5C%5C%5C%5C192%2E168%2E100%2E11%5C%5CIMAGES%5C%5CT715%2D0055%5C%5CT715%2D00550527%2ETIF%26S%3D%2E5&pID=603026060327&name=Maggie%26nbsp%3BCoughlin&doa=Apr+13%2C+1899&port=Queenstown&line=0027

A record for a Maggie Coughlin from Monasterevin arriving in Ny in 1899 going to stay with her sister.

http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup_weif_5a.asp?src=%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Ftif2gif%2Eexe%3FT%3D%5C%5C%5C%5C192%2E168%2E100%2E11%5C%5CIMAGES%5C%5CT715%2D0640%5C%5CT715%2D06400620%2ETIF%26S%3D%2E5&pID=102474020663&name=Kate%26nbsp%3BCoughlan&doa=Nov+10%2C+1905&port=Queenstown&line=0002

A record for Katie coming back into the US in 1905 and going to stay with her sister Margaret.

[PatB71]

http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/the-grand-canal/the-mountmellick-line-of-the-grand-canal/

There a picture here of the now derelict lock with the lockkeepers house just out of site in the right of the picture.

[heartman48]

To PatB71 - Thank you. The Mary/Kate link would not be my grandmother as she went by the name Maggie and never lived in Brooklyn, NY.  The age does not match up.  Thomas & Jane is a possibility if my great grandmother, MAry Dunne Coughlan died and Thomas remarried.  I don't now.  Thanks for the information about Coughlans Lock.

To shanew147 - also thank you.  I am not familiar with the BMD index or familysearch, but will look them up.  I have an application completed for a birth record for Margaret Mary.

[PatB71]

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#collection=fs%3A1325221&givenName=Margaret&searchType=exact&surname=Coughlan&p=recordResults

Hi Tom,
           I think this is possibly the record of your grandmother in the 1900 census ..all the figures seem to match up..

As for the other record I sent you of Mary and Katie(Catherine? I believe they may be Margarets sisters going to their other sister Anne.

Saw ur posts on Genforum ..sorry to hear you didn`t get much info in Monasterevin when u came over ,would love to have helped being a local myself.