Brunkard, not sure where to post

[Kiltaglassan]

found isabella death under surname mcmahon

URL-
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1904/05614/4578985.pdf
(scroll to bottom - Lurgan SRD, Portadown RD)

[gaffy]

Just for the record, here is the actual image from the Drumcree RC parish registers of the baptismal record for Isabella Brunkard (in preparation for her marriage to Thomas Morgan), the baptism took place on 10 March 1875 (3 days before said marriage), John Brunkard and Eliza Wright were clearly stated as her parents, the sponsor was Mary Catherine Morgan:

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632569#page/51/mode/1up (left page)

[Heather Walsh]

wow Gaffy....wow wow wow ....thank you thank you

[Heather Walsh]

2nd thoughts, still thank you,  did she have to be baptised catholic in order to marry?

[gaffy]

It's not something that I'm 100% about, so I'll rely on others to keep me right, but my understanding of Ireland in that era is that a mixed marriage required Papal Dispensation otherwise it wasn't considered valid from the RC Church perspective ... unless the other party first converted to Catholicism (ie. 'problem' solved).

[gaffy]

I also noticed on a subscription website a marriage record for a George Brunkard of 'Cornascribe' who married an Eliza Grundell at Tandragee Presbyterian Church on 22 March 1837, they had a son Robert Brunkard baptised in the same church in 1839, I don't know how they fit into the overall picture.  A quick check of the 'Ancestry' website shows several trees for this family, who ended up in Canada from the early 1840s.

[Elwyn Soutter]

I also noticed on a subscription website a marriage record for a George Brunkard of 'Cornascribe' who married an Eliza Grundell at Tandragee Presbyterian Church on 22 March 1837, they had a son Robert Brunkard baptised in the same church in 1839, I don't know how they fit into the overall picture.  A quick check of the 'Ancestry' website shows several trees for this family, who ended up in Canada from the early 1840s.

With the name Brunkard being so rare in that area, I feel it’s very likely that George is part of this same family who we know were in Cornascreeb in the tithes in the 1830s.  Tradition being to marry in the bride's church would account for them marrying in Tandragee Presbyterian.

[Wexflyer]

It's not something that I'm 100% about, so I'll rely on others to keep me right, but my understanding of Ireland in that era is that a mixed marriage required Papal Dispensation otherwise it wasn't considered valid from the RC Church perspective ... unless the other party first converted to Catholicism (ie. 'problem' solved).

All you ever wanted to know about mixed marriages
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09698a.htm