Searching for information on Grandmother Margaret Agnes McMahon

[aghadowey]

Have you seen this record? (may be worth checking for a baptism for him)
John McMahon born c1848 Ireland, parents- John McMahon & Margaret Alexander
   https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2715-W51

If he is the same family then you should be able to trace him in U.S. records

[Trishmcc23]

Oh thank you Aghadowey this looks very promising.  I did not think to check US just concentrated in Ireland.  The date looks to be good.
Regards
Trishmcc

[aghadowey]

All I did was search for the parents on www.familysearch.org

Let us know if you need help tracing that U.S. lead 

[Trishmcc23]

Thank you so much. I must admit I haven't a clue about searching in the US so I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.  I have been researching and reading a lot of books on the subject and only started searching on Family Search last week but I was more looking for their birth or baptism records rather than children, although I had been searching for Margaret Agnes.
Anyway another step to take.  Good fun.
Trishmcc

[Sinann]

If John was born was born c1848 I wouldn't have found the marriage from 1850 onwards so worth another look.

[Trishmcc23]

Good morning Sinann.
I gather from Aghadowey's message that this John is son of Margaret Alexander and John McMahon Snr and would be sibling to Margaret Agnes McMahon/Walsh.    Why one goes to US and the other to Australia would be another interesting story.
According to John Jnr's death certificate from the US his birth would be around 1848 and Margaret Agnes is around 1852 according to her shipping record, as she was 27 when she came to Australia in 1879.
Cheers Trishmcc

[Sinann]

Progress report, there is at least one Alexander getting married in Dromore in 1846, not to a McMahon but at least we know they are in the area.
There is a baptism of a Catherine McMahon in 1840, no parents names but one of the sponsors is an Alexander, if she is another of the family it would push the marriage back yet again.

[Trishmcc23]

This is true, particularly if they had a big family.  Margaret Agnes named one of her daughters Catherine Josephine. Her other children were Margaret, Mary, Gertrude Clare and John Francis.  Some of these names may show up as well.
Trishmcc

[aghadowey]

Good morning Sinann.
I gather from Aghadowey's message that this John is son of Margaret Alexander and John McMahon Snr and would be sibling to Margaret Agnes McMahon/Walsh.    Why one goes to US and the other to Australia would be another interesting story.
According to John Jnr's death certificate from the US his birth would be around 1848 and Margaret Agnes is around 1852 according to her shipping record, as she was 27 when she came to Australia in 1879.
Cheers Trishmcc

No, I said that John born c1848 Ireland had parents called John McMahon and Margaret Alexander.

I didn't find him in U.S. census records yet (you probably have no idea how many John McMahons born in Ireland around that time are in N.Y.C.!) but this is likely connected (perhaps John died at that address but it wasn't where he previously lived).

1910 census- 126 Bradhurst Ave.
James McMahon, 31, born NY, parents b.Ireland, married 8 years, barkeeper- saloon
wife Margaret McMahon, 29, born Ireland, 4 children/4 living
son John McMahon, 6, born NY
son James McMahon Jr., 4, born NY
daughter Hannah McMahon, 2, born NY
daughter Mary V. McMahon, 6 months, born NY
sister Elizabeth McMahon, 28, born NY, married, 1 child/1 living [wonder if this is actually James' sister-in-law]
nephew John McMahon, 3, born NY