Singer Ruby Murray

[aghadowey]

In same plot as Samuel, wife Sarah, daughter Geraldine & stillborn child-
https://dof.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialsearch/BurialRecordDetails.aspx?RecordID=6393.17054
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1897/02120/1806200.pdf (Robert James Black, parents Robert Black & Eliza McKinley)
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1900/05747/4622991.pdf

Marriage of Robert Black & Eliza McKinley gives her father as James McKinley, etc.-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1886/10847/5960504.pdf

[bagpuss]

She married Samuel Walker McIlroy in Belfast around 1888 (taken from 1901 census)

1901 census doesn't give number of years married.

Sorry aghadowey, I meant the 1911 census.   

Thank you for the Eliza Black/McKinley information. It definitely looks like this could be her sister. Therefore, her father is James, not Archibald, so no link there. Unless James and Archibald were brothers??? 

I have found a marriage in 1881 for Sarah Jane McKinley (with father's name James) to Thomas McMurray and on the 1911 census living with Samuel McIlroy's family is a Mary McMurray aged 28, so it looks like Sarah was married before.  I still can't find a marriage for Samuel Walker McIlroy and Sarah Jane McMurray/McKinley though, or a death for Thomas McMurray. 

Still more digging needed I suppose if I'm to solve this family mystery.

Thanks for your help, it is very kind of you.

Regards
Sue   

[aghadowey]

Sarah Jane McKinley m.(1881) Thomas McMurray
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1881/11015/8027581.pdf
1.   Mary Jane McMurray (4 July 1882 at 39 Sandy Row)
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1882/02774/2018447.pdf
2.   Thomas McMurray (11 Oct.1884 at 5 McFarland’s Court)
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1884/02672/1984625.pdf

Haven't found a death for either Thomas McMurray or his son Thomas in Belfast but didn't have time to do thorough search.