Searching for information on Grandmother Margaret Agnes McMahon

[Trishmcc23]

Parents of Margaret Agnes McMahon are John and Margaret McMahon.  Don't know Margaret's maiden name.

Trish

[Trishmcc23]

Sinann and Schoch - Hello...Have been able to find Mother and Father of Margaret Agnes Walsh - John and Margaret Walsh.  Searched Griffiths Valuation which I found very informative even though I don't understand all of it.  There are a few John Walsh and I now know the towns to look in so that may make it easier.  There are lots of McKennas there as well so the Reference from Eugene McKenna CC given to Margaret could have come about through them.  All supposition at this stage.
Trish

[Sinann]

She married a Walsh and her mother was a Walsh, yes?
Have I got that correct?

So you have John McMahon marries Margaret Walsh
Their daughter Margaret Agnes McMahon marries James Walsh.

[Trishmcc23]

Sorry Sinann I totally missed that.  No I don't have a maiden name for John's wife, Margaret.  Just that Margaret Agnes Father was John McMahon and her mother was Margaret McMahon.  I will try and be more careful when I am writing the messages.   Could be that it was about midnight here.
Trish

[Trishmcc23]

Just received further information on my GG Margaret McMahon's parents.  Her father is John McMahon - mother is Margaret McMahon born Alexander Circa 1830.   Don't have any information on siblings, townland etc.
I have not been able to track down any information to Dromore, County Tyrone.
Any further assistance would certainly be appreciated .
Regards
Trishmcc

[Sinann]

Alexander isn't a name that would be generally considered RC, the 1901 Census it shows as mostly Presbyterian but still lots of dispensations in the RC registers.
Thought I'd have a go a finding a marriage, there doesn't tend to be as many to look through as births, started in 1850 in both Dromore and Aghaloo but no joy.

[Trishmcc23]

Hi Sinann
Good to hear from you again.  I had always thought my GG Margaret Agnes Walsh (McMahon) was RC because her daughters were but that could have come from their father, James Walsh.  She is certainly buried in the RC Cemetery at Rookwood, NSW but that is not to say she did not come from a different family background before she came out to Australia in 1879/80.
It could well be that her mother, Margaret McMahon (Alexander) was of a different religion.   Are McMahons normally RC?
Once again, thank you for your help. 

[Sinann]

Going by the 1901 Census McMahon would be considered RC
RC 8569 results
COI 200
Presbyterian 190
But those that are not RC live mainly in the Northern counties so John may not have been.

[Trishmcc23]

Hi Sinann
Doing some research today in Griffiths Valuations. Maybe clutching at straws. John McMahon tenant, Earl of Caledon Landowner, County Tyrone, Barony Dungannon Lower, Union Aghaloo, Townland Caledon, Place Name Church Hill.  Can't find marriage with Margaret Alexander but the names, McMahon, Alexander, Caledon, Dromore...keep coming up in my records.   Let me know if I am off course please.   There were also some records of John McMahon in Dromore on Griffiths Valuations as well.
Thanks.
Trish