need help please with a long standing brickwall

[Ann Baker]

Hi All,

This one has been bugging me for 22 years. I decided to give it a dust down and have another look as since last time I looked I have now got subs with Ancestry and FindMyPast. No joy.

So this is one last ask for some help on trying to find these guys before I admit defeat.

Patrick Carroll and Bridget McGurk married on the 30th Jan 1839 in St Mary's RC church in Carrickmacross. They are my 3 x gt grandparents. I have the marriage record. I'm trying to find :

1. Their baptisms. Having found them on the 1851 census in Scotland where they were in Calton Glasgow, i'm estimating their birth years to be c 1816 and 1817 respectively.

2. Patrick's parents - Have Bridgets because she died in Scotland. Patrick may well have but it was sometime between 1851 and 1854 because Bridget remarried in 1854 and is shown as a widow. Scottish death records pre 1855 are Parish records and don't show parents.

3. Baptisms for their children. I am aware of 4 - William b c1838, Rose Ann b c1841, Marion b c1844 and James b1847. They all applied for Poor Relief at some point so I have confirmed they are Co. Monaghan from the North Lanarkshire Poor Records.

Any help/suggestions anyone can give will be most gratefully received.

Many Thanks

Ann

[Elwyn Soutter]

Carrickmacross is in the RC parish of Magheross. Unfortunately its baptism records don’t start till 1858, so if that’s where your ancestors were baptised, no records exist.

[Ann Baker]

Hi Elwyn

You've confirmed what I suspected and would explain why I can't find them. Ah well, not to worry. Onto the next lot.

many thanks for your help 

Ann