Patrick Grimes (b 1835) married Jane Fairon (b 1830) in 1856, in a Roman Catholic Church. I think they lived at Charter School Lane, as that was where Jane gave birth to her children. Patrick was a carpenter.
Would a carpenter have been a traveler, moving towns to the next job? Alternatively, would it have meant that he stayed in one place? Because I can't find a death record for Jane or Patrick... Also, on the site where I found their marriage record, it does not say who their parents were. Was this common practice?
Their children:
Mary Grimes 1861 – 1909
Patrick Grimes 1865 – abt 1873
Patrick Grimes 1865 – abt 1875
James Grimes 1868 – unknown
Patrick Joseph Grimes 1873 – unknown
Mary Grimes was in Scotland marrying by the time she was 26, was it common that one member of a family would emigrate alone, or could it have been that the whole family went? I read on there, that there may not have been records for boarder travel from Ireland to England, for example. Is there any other way I can find out what happened to the other Grimes?
