Re: John BROPHY & Mary COSTELLO
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John BROPHY & Mary COSTELLO
Alice Brophy 5/30/08
Canada had censuses beginning in 1851. Try searching these for clues. Some good clues, if they exist, would be the forenames of the children born in Ireland. These can be very helpful in validating marriage rcds.
Assuming a marriage date of 1845 +/- 4 yrs for John Brophy, in all Ireland, I get 5 hits. These are in 1841, 1843, 1844, 1845, and 1849 in various counties. A search for Mary Costello for the same parameters yields 52 hits. When I compare the counties for hits by both parties, the only one which has an identical match is in 1844, Westmeath. Searching at the parish level of precision, the only Westmeath parish where there is a rcd'd marriage of Mary Costello and John Brophy in 1844 is Mullingar.
My source is the Irish Family History Foundation's database. This has 11,500,000 rcds and covers abt 60% of all Ireland. This means there is a 40% chance that YOUR ancestors are not in the database. Rcd keeping in this era was fairly good. It is unlikely that a marriage for these exact names appear in the same county, in the same year, in the same parish, is due to pure random chance.
Suggest you visit the Foundation's database and search for yourself.
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Re: John BROPHY & Mary COSTELLO
Alice Brophy 6/02/08