McGinley

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Throwing this in for consideration and further checking.

There was a John McGinley and a Grace Gallagher having children in Londonderry area in the mid 1870s/to early 1880s. There is then the death of a Grace McGinley in the Londonderry area in 1885, aged 31.

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Ruled out for now, as he seems to have been a labourer and they lived at Ballougray.

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Keeping with the trumpeter and RA theme.

On May 21st 1901, an Ellen Elizabeth McGinley, Bonds Street, daughter of a John McGinley,  trumpeter, married an Albert Edward Sherlock, Bombardier, Waterside Barracks.

So looking good for the Ellen you thought likely to be sister of your John, and fitting well with other finds on their likely father, John.

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Margaret McGinley of 16 Bonds Street has moved to Emerson Street by 1911.:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Londonderry_No__5_Urban/Emerson_Street/606609/

Her daughter, Sarah Jane, having married a Bertram Peake , can't quite make out his rank, but he was based at Ebrington Barracks, on 29th September, 1910. She listed her father as John McGinley, soldier.

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Marriage (1901) Ellen Elizabeth McGinley https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1901/10309/5752460.pdf

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www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Queenstown/Spike_Island/405661

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Margaret's son, Robert, married Ena Quigley, on 13th October 1910, again his father, John Quigley, soldier.

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Robert McGinley m.(1910) Ena Quigley-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1910/10000/5636632.pdf

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Perhaps you already have all this, Hatchetman, as I've just noticed that someone with Smallwoods research, submitted a pedigree resource file to familysearch on ‎25‎/‎08‎/‎2016, with John McGinley, Margaret Taylor plus children Sarah (and spouse), Alfred, and Robert (and spouse) all included?

The same file also has a John McGinley, born c1840, as father to a John born c1865 (seemingly the one married(?) to Margaret Taylor), and then a John James born 1876 and an Ellen born 1880.

I am still leaning towards there having been one John McGinley, born c 1848/50, father of John James, having possibly had two marriages and two sets of children or, given that in 1911 Margaret stated she had 8 children born and 6 living, that she was either his only wife and mother of all his children or she possibly brought some children into her marriage(?) with John, who took on his surname and believed him to be their father, and that she was perhaps a bit older than the census ages for her suggest.

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Going on possibility of Margaret being older and on a McGinley surname mis-transcription, there looks to have possibly been a Margaret Taylor/John McKinley marriage in Londonderry in 1874. Not available to view via irishgenealogy for the date in question, but it does come up with one of possible husbands as John McKinley on FindMyPast (albeit Margaret may have married one of the other men on the same page) . Perhaps someone could check Emerald Ancestors, as they have an 1874 marriage of a John McKinley to a Margaret indexed as well as an 1874 Margaret Taylor to a John indexed, both for Londonderry.

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The 'missing' 8th child (not 8th born), transcribed as McInley:

William born 1879  https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGL1-YZG

Birth Workhouse Row (some of their other children had Road), father, John a Bugler, Londonderry Militia, so in keeping with what we have already discovered.