Donovan's

[aghadowey]

You've done the right thing by checking church records but the fact they can't be found there makes me wonder if they lived elsewhere when the children were born/baptised.

"We know they lived in Ahkista Bantry"- how do you know this?

[cacasmum]

My grandmother would return often on visits taking my mother and older siblins.

[aghadowey]

Your grandmother visiting with her children (after 1876) doesn't mean that she and her siblings were born or reared there.

Have you found grandmother in any census records?

[cacasmum]

Indeed no...... i'm begining to think that  they were born elsewhere.

[cacasmum]

And no i have been unable to find anything for my grandmother in Ireland.

[aghadowey]

Right, one step at a time then.

Where would your grandmother have been in 1901 and 1911? Married in 1876 but any idea when she was born?

[cacasmum]

She was born in 1891. Married in Swansea in 1918. I was always lead to believe she left Cork for Swansea age 14 that would of been in 1905.

[aghadowey]

Husband's name?

[cacasmum]

Joseph Patrick Butler living in Merthyr Tydfil at the time of marrage but originally from Waterford. They married September 1918.