McCorry surname

[gaffy]

My last excursion into family history was in 2008. Since then I have changed computers and with an incompatible software program I am only now taking up more research. I cannot remember which particular websites I used back then, so in effect I am starting all over again.

Fair enough, it might help me to quickly retrace your steps.  I looked for the 1881 census  record for David Seaman and Mary Anne (Cassells) Seaman and children and couldn't find it, was it Gislingham, Suffolk they lived or St Osyth Essex?
 

[aghadowey]

Possibly the correct Mary Ann Seaman in 1911 census- born c1855 Co.Limerick living in Ardleigh, Essex:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWNH-4NS

1901 census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9NT-T37
? 1891 census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLC3-4N2
1881 census: St Osyth, Essex: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQZN-B9F

All these records, if I have the correct person, show birthplace as LIMERICK NOT ARMAGH.

Family tree (submitted): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:33DY-SKP

Daughter Isabella (b.1874 Scotland not Ireland): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ7X-981

Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

[Sunnyhill]

I'm interested in the Catherine McCorry - John Cassells marriage as well as I can't identify their families. While the Cassells in the Lurgan are were virtually all Protestants, there were a few marriages to Catholics.
As above, I don't think the Mary Cassells m David  Seaman was daughter of this couple??, [their daughter being christened in Lurgan......] though her father was also John Cassells and she was also b about 1855. She was married in Limerick and the English census 1881/1891/1901 all have her as b Limerick.

There was a Catherine Cassells in Annaloist in 1864 in the Griffiths Valuation, the property owned by John McAlinden, who lived nearby.

On the 1901 census of Annaloist there is a John McAlinden with wife Elizabeth McCorry - married in 1866. John's address on the marriage record was  Annaloist, Elizabeth's Silverwood and he father John. Both said to be 20yo. May be a clue with another McCorry - McAlinden connection? If Catherine McCorry was married just before birth of daughter Mary Ann, she could be born about 1835 so could fit as sister of Elizabeth.
Also  there was a John Castles, married, who I can't find family for who died 1884 aged 60, address Annaloist.
Edit - was in PORTADOWN AND LUTRON? NEWS, SATURDAY, OCT, 4; 1884 SUDDEN DEATH NEAR LURGAN

[Kiltaglassan]

Also  there was a John Castles who I can't find family for who died 1884 aged 60, address Annaloist.

Looks to have been mis-transcribed - John Cassells - Coroner's Inquest - 29 September 1884
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1884/06310/4809332.pdf
Found dead (or lived) at Derry townland.
https://www.townlands.ie/armagh/oneilland-east/shankill/lurgan/derry/

[Kiltaglassan]

On the 1901 census of Annaloist there is John McAlinden with wife Elizabeth McCorry - married in 1866. John's address on the marriage record was  Annaloist, Elizabeth's Silverwood and he father John. Both said to be 20yo.

URL Link - 13 February 1866 at St Peter's RC Church, Lurgan.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1866/11520/8236629.pdf

1911 census
House 15 in Annaloist (Brownlows Derry, Armagh)
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Brownlows_Derry/Annaloist/334941/
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001652310/

[Sunnyhill]

Thank you, what was the mistranscription? I must have also seen the details in a newspaper article which I can't find now but have copied it:

".......... 29-9-1884
A John Castles of Annaloist was found dead on the Lough Neagh Road at about 10 o'clock yesterday on a lot of grass opposite the demense of JW Greer, Esq, J.P"

Also  there was a John Castles who I can't find family for who died 1884 aged 60, address Annaloist.

Looks to have been mis-transcribed - John Cassells - Coroner's Inquest - 29 September 1884
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1884/06310/4809332.pdf
Found dead (or lived) at Derry townland.
https://www.townlands.ie/armagh/oneilland-east/shankill/lurgan/derry/

[Kiltaglassan]

Thank you, what was the mistranscription?

If you look at the IrishGenealogy death record for him, the Registrar has written his surname as Cassells but has been entered by the transcriber in the database as Castles.


***Edited to Add***
The date of his death appears to have been written by the Registrar as 27 Septr 1884

[Sunnyhill]

Ah right, common for that variation!

There were very few Castles and no Cassells in Limerick in 1901 so probably not a common name there earlier either? [Only one in the Griffiths Valuation too - a William Castles].
This John [of Limerick] I found could fit as father of Mary Ann b 1855 . He is on a few Ancestry trees but only child I saw was Isabella b 1849

Name   John Cassels
Marriage Date   6 Sep 1848
Marriage Place   Civil Records, Misc, Ireland [Limerick]
Father   James Cassels
Spouse   Eliza Alfred

[aghadowey]

There were very few Castles and no Cassells in Limerick in 1901 so probably not a common name there earlier either? This John I found could fit as father of Mary Ann b 1855 . He is on a few Ancestry trees but only child I saw was Isabella b 1849
Name   John Cassels
Marriage Date   6 Sep 1848
Marriage Place   Civil Records, Misc, Ireland [Limerick]
Father   James Cassels
Spouse   Eliza Alfred

Here's the actual marriage record which gives full details-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1848/09351/5386221.pdf