Information appreciated for Fox/Shelly & Shelly/Whitty families

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There's a sister Mary b 1857.

Mum is DOWLING

Tara

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There is a brother Robert b 1856.

Mum is DOWLING

Tara

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There is a brother William b 1855

Mum is DOWLING

Tara

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There is a sister Catherine b 1853

Mum is DOWLING

Tara

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There is another sister Mary b 1851

Mum is DOWLING

Tara

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Brother John's marriage

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/34c62b0062220

Tara

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I think we can safely say that Margaret's maiden name was DOWLING

Tara

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Thomas Shelly and Margaret Dowling married 1 November 1845 in Stradbally Laois.

Tara

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My God you have been at work. I have all the rootsireland records on my tree from Abbeyleix with Thomas Shelly and Margaret Dowling. I have assumed that Doolan and Doran are just errors of a sort. But it is really nice to see that connection on the prison record to Abbeyleix...confirms the records from Nicholas' marriage. Margaret Shelly is my great grandmother and yes I think this does absolutely confirm that Margaret Dowling is her mother. I have many wonderful records from Glasnevin, thanks to Dathei's direction.

No! I did not see that Margaret Shelly prison record. Blimey...my family...what to think. Maybe that is why my grandmother wouldn't admit to being Irish. She is buried here in Vancouver and I think I need to go and apologize for

I have Margaret's siblings of John 1846, Mary 1851, Cath, 1853-1910, William, 1855 and the other Mary 1857 who married James Smyth, James Henry, whose descendants I have been in touch with from Minnesota, and John 1861, who married Mary Shea.
Thanks Tara!!!