Falsified info?

[lalkav]

On my husbands grandfathers birth cert in Scotland his parents have stated that they were married in 1896 in Maid Street Chapel in Dublin. The child was given his fathers surname but then there is a corrected entry and the child is given his mothers surname. I'm wondering if the parents weren't married at all. Does anyone know if Maid Street Chapel existed? Thanks.

[Sonas]

Wonder if that should be Meath Street.

[lalkav]

Was there a Meath Street in Dublin? Was there a Meath Street Chapel?

[aghadowey]

It should be easy enough to find the marriage indexed (not as good as getting the actual certificate but will at least show that they did marry).
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

If you have trouble then post their names and maybe someone else will be able to find them.

[lalkav]

They were George Jenkins and Bridget Collins. I've just had a quick look and couldn't find anything. Maybe they didn't get married then.

[myluck!]

I also had a quick look and couldn't find a marriage as stated

However on a paid site there is another tree that seems to match these facts
It implies that this is the baptism of Bridget COLLINS
and that she married George JENKINS on March 3rd 1896 but giving no source

Also that she had a daughter Ethel
Ethel's marriage record in Scotland shows her as Ethel COLLINS formerly JENKINS
and her parentage is descibed as
(F) William JENKINS Brushmaker
(M) Bridget COLLINS afterwards married to William BROGAN Labourer

It could be that William and Bridget divorced or never married!

[Moragh]

On my husbands grandfathers birth cert in Scotland his parents have stated that they were married in 1896 in Maid Street Chapel in Dublin. The child was given his fathers surname but then there is a corrected entry and the child is given his mothers surname. I'm wondering if the parents weren't married at all. Does anyone know if Maid Street Chapel existed? Thanks.

Hi, I have just joined the site while looking for information on my paternal great grandparents and it looks like my great grandparents George Jenkins and Bridget Collins also state they were married in Maid Street Chapel, Dublin 3rd March 1896.    My grandfather was Michael Jenkins (b.1897) married to Mary Ann McGuire  in 1916 in Greenock and then remarried to my grandmother Catherine Tinney in 1928.

Thanks for reading

[Wexflyer]

As already suggested, Maid St. sounds like a mishearing of Meath St. to me. If Scotland was like Ireland then entries were made by a registrar listening to answers from the informant - the informant did not make the entries directly.

And there is a Meath St. parish
https://www.meathstreetparish.ie/

More on Meath St.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/meath-street-outpost-of-a-disappearing-dublin-1.1967467

[Moragh]

Thanks for this