Durkin of Mayo

[heywood]

Ancestry trees are not always reliable.

Where do you have Bernard? Start with that and then search. Does he give a place of birth other than Ireland on the censuses?

[KDUR]

Hi,I started with my line then worked backwards ,everything seemed to tally until I got to John and Catherine ,it has definitely hit a brick wall.Bernard was born 29 March 1844 Swineford Mayo married Ann Joyce ..

[heywood]

Do you have his baptism record?

Where did they marry?
Where are they living after marriage?

[KDUR]

They marry in Hartlepool 1863, I found the census for the marriage,I’ve tried attaching it but it won’t attach.Also Bernards baptism i found .

[heywood]

Thanks I found them now.

[heywood]

Hi,I started with my line then worked backwards ,everything seemed to tally until I got to John and Catherine ,it has definitely hit a brick wall.Bernard was born 29 March 1844 Swineford Mayo married Ann Joyce ..

It all looks possible but how do you know that the baptism is your Bernard?

The Hartlepool records, if I have the right ones as he is Bryan, show a birth abt 1838.

Bryan and Bernard are often interchanged and ages are often wrong, I realise.

[Maiden Stone]

I just can’t get find anything further to find Johns parents or Catherine’s ,I tried Patt and Mary for John as those names appear on the marriage census but it brings up nothing

Patt and Mary Durkin were witnesses. Most likely relationship would have been brother and sister of John or brother and sister-in-law. They might have been John's cousins or some other relations. It would depend on whether John Durkin's sibling(s) still lived nearby.
Catholic marriage registers of the time in Ireland didn't usually include names of parents.
Have you found the baptism of John & Catherine's children? The marriage witnesses may also have been sponsors (godparents) for the first child, or a subsequent child, if they were nearby when the child was born.   

[Maiden Stone]

They marry in Hartlepool 1863, I found the census for the marriage,I’ve tried attaching it but it won’t attach.Also Bernards baptism i found .

Could you give us information about Bernard's baptism, date, parish, parents' & sponsors' names + a link to the original image on National Library of Ireland Catholic Registers website so we can view it for ourselves without having to look it up?

[KDUR]

It shows as Bernard/Bryan on his census which was confusing but I took it as his middle name .I’m not 100 percent sure it is his baptism as there’s no mention of parents it’s very difficult to read and the dates of birth vary so much on Ancestry,it seems everyone who is searching for the same family tree have a wide variety of different birth dates, ancestry seems to throw it all at you that other people find but then messes up the accuracy on you’re own search.