Annie O'Malley from Mayo

[heywood]

Bridget' s first marriage record transcription says her address was Wasteland.  I have no idea what that means.

Wasteland is mentioned as a village here and here

[abyrne]

That's really cool.  I just can't find what it may be called now.  ireland genweb project has a huge list of towns and townlands of County Mayo 1851 and Wasteland isn't there.  I'm trying to find where I can search for Bridget's birth. 

Oh and I received the marriage record from County Mayo civil registration service (really fast I thought) the only additional info on it that I didn't already have was:

Marriage Solemnised at : Chapel Louisburgh According to the Rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Churchi
Solemniser: B G Freely  R.C.C.

Registrar: T Griffin
Louisburgh No. 1, Westport, Co. Mayo
29 March 1883registration Number: 1659492

[heywood]

Even though Wasteland seems to have either disappeared or been renamed, the parish would presumably be the same and therefore the church records.

I can't see that grave record though but am glad you found it.

[abyrne]

It says "In fond remembrance of William O'Malley  Curra Malley died Dec 1897"
then it references his wife and unmarried daughters although they are not buried there
"and his wife Bridget died 1915     Also their daughters Bridget 1899     Mary 1928   R.I.P."
The two Bridgets are in Liverpool. Mary died in Buffalo NY US

[abyrne]

Agreed but how would I know what parish or church it was. I can't find the village in the 1851 records

[heywood]

You would imagine that it was literally 'waste land' that was reclaimed perhaps. 

You say that the other Durkans were born 'Tallanbaun' Louisburgh. I an't see this place. I wonder if it is Tallavbaun.
On a modern map it looks as though it is Thullabaun and is close to Corrymailley. I think it would still be Louisburgh church.

[abyrne]

Of course you are right.  Thanks the address is the key to much information sadly still not how Bridget and Patrick Alfred are related yet.

A while ago I found a transcription of a grave for a Martin Durkan in Killeen cemetery.

Have mercy Oh Lord on the soul of Martin Durcan who died 24 April 1883 age 57 and his wife Annie died 1904 age 60 years and their daughter Annie die 3 April 1942 aged 70 and her husband Jim McDonnell died 14 July 1938 age 71 RIP

Well Anne Staunton and Martin Durkan didn’t have a daughter Annie that age and no marriage to a Jim McDonnell so this must not be right, I thought.

Patrick Alfred Durkin was born 1865 Tallavbaun which is in County Mayo DED Owennadernaun.

There were in 1901 only 5 Townlands there
1.) Doovilra  1 home the Hastings family (in 1911 this was no longer on the census )
2.) Inishdegil-more Island 2 homes both had Toole families
3.)  Kinnakillew  1 home the Ruddy family and Mary O’Malley aservant age 22
4.) Sixnoggins  1 home the Hugh McDonnell family
5.) Tallavbaun 4 homes
         #1&2 Hester family members
         #4 McGreal family
         #3 James McDonnell and his wife Honor their two children, Mother in law Anne Durkan, sister in law Ellen Durkan---what I thought 

So I looked for more Durkan births and found these

Honor Durkan            10 Sept 1871               Martin Durken   Anne Staunton
James Durkan        2 Feb  1881      Martin Durken      Anne Staunton
Ellen Durkan        1 Jan   1884      Martin Durken      Anne Staunton   
Then I looked for a marriage between Honor Durkan and Jim McDonnell and found they were married This Honor was a Durcan at the Tallavbaun address :

Husband Name   James McDonnell
Husband Address   Sixnoggins
Wife Name   Honor Durkan
Wife Address   Tallavbaun
Date of Marriage   5 May 1895
Husband Father Name   Hugh McDonnell 
Husband Father Occupation   Farmer
Wife Father Name   Martin Durkan
Wife Father Occupation   Farmer
Witnesses   James Durkan,  Margaret Durkan


So I looked at the website that shows the actual grave pictures that I didn’t know about until just recently. And I found it  and it doesn’t say their daughetr Annie..it says their daughter ONNIE as in Honor.

Martin Durkan and Anne (Staunton) Durkan never left county Mayo as many of their children did.


 

[heywood]

You are working extremely hard.
I have seen many variations of Honor/Honoria/Hanoria/Annie etc.

All seems to point to Bridget being Patrick's sister.

Sorry if it is already here- so you have her marriage information? Is there a father named?

[abyrne]

His name is Martin Durcan which I knew. But I still don't know her mother's name or her birth year. Her marriage record says she was 24 in 1883. Her death record says she was 51 in 1915.  Both cannot be true. I have both in my possession not just transcriptions.

If I knew where Wasteland was I would go house by house

There are several Martin Durcans with daughters named Bridget born between 1859 and 1864. None that make sense to be my Bridget. Can't find Anne Staunton as mother of Bridget.