Patrick Connolly & Martha Bradley of Owenreagh, Ballinascreen

[mcghee67]

Thankyou so so much Gaffy you must have great eyesight and it must have taken good lot of your time up, I had all the children including John and Mary Ann but when I went back to look for their dates of birth I couldn't find those two, I also thought it was a little strange that Jane and Daniel names weren't together.

Kind Regards Jane

[aghadowey]

Just got home and see that you've altered the name of Patrick's wife from Bridget to Martha in your original post and it's also been changed at some point after my posts in the title. Your original post did give her name as Bridget (which is the name I started searches with) and it was only when I could not find any of the children that I did very broad searches and found the name was actually Martha not Bridget.

This was discussed only recently on another thread about posters editing things which then can make later posts look silly. We all make mistakes and have to go back and make edits at times but if you need to do so for some reason (other than things like simple spelling errors which do not change the meaning of what you've posted) please indicate what you've modified to make the thread less confusing.

[mcghee67]

Sorry Aghadowey I will keep this in mind when posting further messages, I have not posted for a while and not as up to date with the rules

Kind Regards Jane

[aghadowey]

Following up the Valuation Revision Books (see reply #3) but going back in time now- Owenreagh
1884-1898
   1a Patrick Connolly house & garden (30 perches), changed to Chas. McKenna in 1898 (that name appears later)
   4C added 1898- Patrick Connolly

1880-1883
   1a Patrick connolly

1864-1879
   1a Andrew Bradley changed to Patrick Connolly in 1874

Now, 1874 is the year your Martha (Bradley) Connolly died but that still doesn't explain any of the children ending up in Glenties Workhouse if the father was still living in Owenreagh.