Marriage at Roscommon

[constable]

Thanks hallmark, I will check that out, could be useful

[hallmark]

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[constable]

Many thanks, I have just emailed the Library to advise me on how proceed. Seems promising!

[hallmark]

Email is        copy-orders'at'nli.ie

but they are very good at replying if you use another email address! 

[philipsearching]

Phi;ip, don't forget that Basil and Catherine Geraghty also had a son James, born about 1846. When he married Margaret White in February 1873 he gave his age as 26. He died in Durham Lodge in 1904, aged 58.
I can get a marriage cert for Eliza Aldwell Sandys in 1860, do you think it would be of any help? She must have been quite young and also it is peculiar that she married in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.

I believe that the Sandys family were Protestant but Basil was definitely Catholic, perhaps he changed to facilitate his marriage to Catherine Devany. His son James and his family were also Catholic. Basil's daughter Eliza Aldwell Sandys may have been Protestant.
Basil and his brother William contributed to the building of a Catholic church at Derrane [pronounced Darn]

hallmark - I have the marriage cert for William CORDNER to Eliza Aldwell SANDYS 21 Sep 1860 in Loughbrickland Presbyterian church. (they are my 2x gt grandparents).  (There are other threads on CORDNER on Rootschat)
I didn't know about James born c1846 - many thanks for that information.

constable - I hadn't considered that Basil might have converted (careless of me!) - that re-opens avenues to search that I had not followed properly.

[the strange sound you can hear is me pacing around the room muttering to myself - thinking deeply about this exciting new information]

Philip

(ADDED - I have a note of an unconfirmed marriage William SANDYS to Bridget GERAGHTY - I wonder if this is two brothers marrying two sisters)

[constable]

Bridget Sandys died in Derrane 5 October 1878, described as the widow of a gentleman farmer. The informant was Winifred Geraghty

[hallmark]

While not Basil.... I see Henry Sandys in Wicklow selling lands in Roscommon

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJW-TQKY?i=453&cat=185720

Might be useful for future??

[hallmark]

Roscommon Messenger Roscommon, Republic of Ireland

12 Mar 1904
DEATH OF MR JAMES SANDYS, DURHAM

DEATH OF MR JAMES SANDYS, DURHAM. We deeply regret to have announce the death of Mr James Sandys, of Durham Lodge, Roscommon, which occurred on Monday last, at a comparatively early age, private hospital in Dublin-

[hallmark]

From Genes Reunited British Newspaper Archive


Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette Roscommon, Republic of Ireland

15 Jun 1839

 On evening last, Mr. Basil Sandys, who has resided in this town for some months back, and who held the situation of excise officer, went out for some short..