Help in finding my paternal grandmother

[antiquesam]

Hi Ladyhawk. I've started down your research path and have ordered the Donaghue/Ayres marriage certificate. Let's see what that turns up.

[Ladyhawk]

Hi Ladyhawk. I've started down your research path and have ordered the Donaghue/Ayres marriage certificate. Let's see what that turns up.

Will keep my fingers crossed 🤞

That's interesting Kay. He was a stoker but he said he was 22 when he married, and John Donaghue seems to be a popular name in Ireland

I found him on F M P and his surname is transcribed as Dongahus but the same transcription is on Anc  Just noticed the image has his birthplace as Youghal, Cork, Ireland

Thanks for the information. I see he is shown as having one child. Needless to say I can't find the birth unfortunately as that would have confirmed that this was my man.

On the 1921 census form there is a grid in which the age of the child was entered. Does the age match up with that of Edith's missing child?

The fact the John on the census and Edith's husband were both stokers might be a coincidence. A lot of stokers were needed on ships at that time.

I’m only posting this just in case this is the John mentioned as his birth is in Youghal
and his fathers name is John

John Donoghue born 23 Feb 1900 he has a middle name James 
his father named John, shopkeeper mother Kate nee Daly
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1900/01993/1767054.pdf

Sisters
Mary Josephine 5 Dec 1897 address Main Street
Catherine 28 April 1901

Brothers
Charles 3 Oct 1902
William Joseph 5 Aug 1904
Christopher Patrick 18 Dec 1905
Thomas 22 Dec 1908 address Tallow Street

Not sure possibly marriage 1897 but John’s occ car owner

John Donoghue & Kate Slattery, she was a widow, married 1897 Youghal,
her father James Daly, his Charles Donoghue
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1897/10447/5804577.pdf



 

[antiquesam]

Thanks Ladyhawk. John stated his father was John Donaghue (a deceased naval pensioner) on his marriage certificate. Who knows?

[LizzieL]

Thanks Ladyhawk. John stated his father was John Donaghue (a deceased naval pensioner) on his marriage certificate. Who knows?

I had an ancestor who was an army pensioner but when he retired from the army ran a grocer's shop, either or both occupations appeared on official records.

[antiquesam]

Hi Ladyhawk. Following your possible lead about Edith marrying again. I got the marriage certificate this morning. Edith is once again being coy in her declarations. She describes herself as a spinster living at the same address as her bridegroom and dosesn't name her father or his occupation. This blinking woman is as illusive as a ghost.