Proud and McMahon

[eleanor2]

Just wondering if any can help me. My great grand parents Margaret Eleanor Proud and Daniel McMahon died within six months of each other in Sep 1886 and March 1887 at **rrington Hill - I cant make out the first one or two letters in a place that  I cant work out either - it looks like Cosclove in the sub district of Saint Nicholas.
They both died of TB. I am wondering if this was a TB hospital.
They had three children - my grandfather who was brought back to Daniels family in Clare, Ireland and two daughters Margarita Eleanor and Maria of who I can find no trace other that their baptisms in 1881 and 1884 (from familysearch.org).  They may well have died of TB too but I can find no information at all on them.
They became a family and died in between census. I have no address for them as a family.
Margaret Eleanor is on the 1881 census as a student in a teacher training college so I have no information on her family other than that her father was an innkeeper (from the marriage cert). At that time Daniel was a lodger.
I have one more query - Daniel was a police constable. Would anyone know how one became a constable then - would he have applied in Durham or to a central location and then have been deployed to Durham. Would he have needed a sponser/referee. His family seem to have remained in Ireland on a farm so I am wondering how he would have become a police constable.
I havent sent the info I have yet to Durham GRO as I was hoping to find out a bit more before I contact them.
Many thanks
Eleanor

[JenB]

Welcome to Rootschat!

**rrington Hill is almost certainly Quarrington Hill.

[karenlee]

Hi

Daniel's will proves what JenB says...

UK Wills and Probate Index

MC MAHON Daniel
Personal Estate 289 3s 11d
27th April 1887

The Will of Daniel MCMAHON late of Quarrington Hill in the County of Durham, Police Constable, who died 29th March 1887 at Quarrington Hill was proved at Durham by John MCMAHON of Cappa Tulla in the County of Clare in Ireland Farmer, the brother, one of the Executors

Cheers
Karenlee

[eleanor2]

Thanks a million - I cant believe so much info so fast!
Is Quarrington hill an area where they lived or an institution.
That gives me a lead on where abouts in Clare Daniel was from as this has been hard to find out too.
Many thanks
Eleanor

[eleanor2]

Hi
I have just googled Quarringtion Hill and see that it is a small village so that must have been where the family lived.
The information from the will is great - where would I apply to get a copy of the will?
I really appreciate this assistance
many thanks
Eleanor

[JenB]

Here's Quarrington Hill
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=433500&Y=537500&A=Y&Z=120

a place that  I cant work out either - it looks like Cosclove in the sub district of Saint Nicholas.

Possibly Coxhoe?

[candleflame]

Whilst I cannot see your family in this link, this is the churchyard for Quarrington Hill and Cassop ( they are very near to each other) St Pauls churchyard . Coxhoe is also quite nearby.

http://interment.net/data/eng/durham/stpaul/index.htm

Modified - however now I think about it, might the family be RC in which case they wouldn't be in St Pauls. Sorry.

[2zpool]

Baptisms at West Cornforth Saints Joseph, Patrick and Cuthbert Roman Catholic:

Mary McMahon baptised 11 Dec 1881 d/o Daniel and Margaret

John Ernest McMahon baptised 22 Apr 1833 s/o Daniel and Margaret

Margaret Ellen McMahon baptised 2 Oct 1884 d/o Daniel and Margaret

Cornforth is not too far from Coxhoe.Quarrington

Burial in Cornforth St. Joe, Pat, and Cuthbert, died Quarrington--Daniel McMahon, age 34, buried 30 Mar 1887

Janis

[karenlee]

Fantastic Janis.. that helps heaps.

Looks like Margaret also left a Will....


UK Wills and Probate Index
MCMAHON Margaret Eleanor
Personal Estate 284 15s
20th Oct 1886

The Will of Margaret Eleanor MCMAHON ( Wife of Daniel MCMAHON ) late of Quarrington Hill in the County of Durham who died 4th Sept 1886 at Quarrington Hill, was proved at Durham by the said Daniel MCMAHON of Quarrington Hill, Police Constable, the sole Executor. Probate being granted under certain Limitations.

Karenle