Mc Cabe family Rockville Street Belfast.

[Gerry Burroughs]

We will visit the grave of Annie this week. City Cemetery is about 15 minutes from us.

[bbart]

I had listed Annie's grave entry in Findagrave back in reply 66, and was surprised with both the grave and newspaper notice being as "McCabe".
Could it be when the McCabe name was used, it was the son John James, doing the paper work for his mother, whether it be her burial, or directory/ house lease, etc, and the entire rest of the family used McKee?

[Gerry Burroughs]

Certainly causing ripples around my wife’s side of the family today.
Earlier we visited Donnybrook st and found no 14 but no 12 had been demolished and a small office building is in its place. It gave us an insight into the area this family moved around in.

[aghadowey]

I had listed Annie's grave entry in Findagrave back in reply 66, and was surprised with both the grave and newspaper notice being as "McCabe".
Could it be when the McCabe name was used, it was the son John James, doing the paper work for his mother, whether it be her burial, or directory/ house lease, etc, and the entire rest of the family used McKee?

Minimal detail on Find A Grave entry but cemetery link shows address, plot number, etc. It's nice to think family are visiting Annie's grave even if there turns out to be no headstone there.
I think you are right about John James putting McCabe name down as he obviously continued to use it as his surname. He was born & baptised as McKinley in 1888, by 1893 his mother was with James McKee but in 1911 the family are McCabe so John James certainly was old enough to remember other surnames.

[Gerry Burroughs]

Did Mc Cabe actually marry their mother ?? So they could use the name Mc Cabe?? Is Mc Kee the father of some of the children?? Forgive I am a bit lost now!!

[bbart]

My thinking of the moment is, James McKee is an alias for James McCabe for whatever reason.
Somewhere back in these posts, someone mentioned that RIC couldn't work in the same county  where they or their spouse was born.  Perhaps you could run that by Jim?
Could it be as simple as Annie refused to move?  I doubt it, but ... we didn't live in those times, so it's hard to know!  I would think it more an issue of one of them being previously married.


After Aghadowey posted about the stillborn baby, I went back to Findagrave, and there is an entry there for the little one.  Searching for all "Infant McKee" entries, I noticed the Findagrave memorial ID numbers were all sequential for all the stillborn babes, so the cemetery must have a section just for that... perhaps because they were not baptized?  Anyways, have a look-see while you are at the cemetery.  I doubt they have markers though.

Edit to add Findagrave link:   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195608939/infant-mckee

[bbart]

Found the post, it was Aghadowey pondering the work issue of birth counties:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=881654.msg7544151#msg7544151

[aghadowey]

I'm also wondering if James McKee is James McCabe 

The stillborn infant was buried in public ground so there will be no marker. It is possible that there's an infants' section or possible that infants/stillborn children were buried in casket of a random burial same day.

[aghadowey]

I have just searched marriages in Belfast registration district from 1884-1889 (almost 900 of them) for anyone named Annie but didn't find anything useful. This is still this marriage I mentioned earlier- John McCabe, policeman, to Anna Meek but she's a teacher.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1886/10848/5960751.pdf