Re: Delia Smyth who married Whelan
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In reply to:
Delia Smyth who married Whelan
Frank Kearney 6/30/12
Okay, I didn't have a sense when you thought the mother remarried ... but now I see in 1913, Martin's father Pat Smyth was still alive in Muckanagh?I'd be searching around Killeroran for a Whelan connection.
http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_2063-0506&fn=Martin&ln=Smyth&st=d&ssrc=&pid=4011905218http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_2063-0506&fn=Martin&ln=Smyth&st=d&ssrc=&pid=4011905218
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Looking at the 1901 IRE census there are no Delia Whelans or Smyths near age 50 ... these +/- 5rys from age 50 (play around with it yourself):http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
Whelan Bridget Garraunnameetagh Moat Galway 51 F
Whelan Bridget Bunewenbeg Bunowen Galway 58 F
Whelan Bridget Miveloon Ballynacourty Galway 58 F
Whelan Bridget Pollnahalla Kilcoona Galway 56 F
Whelan Bridget Ardimullivan Ardimullivan Galway 50 F
MJ got a passport in 1914
Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 > 1914-1915 > Roll 0226 - Certificates: 43480-44333, 02 Nov 1914-20 Nov 1914 > 548
And living 1901-1914 in Billings Montana
And another passport in 1925, living in L.A. (nice photo)
Name: Martin Joseph Smyth
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 16 Apr 1876
Birth Place: Caranoneen, Galway, Ireland
Father's Name: Patrick Smyth
Mother's Name: Bridget Smyth Kearney
FHL Film Number: 255955
Maybe the order was reversed, first Whelan, then Smyth?
Name: Mary Whelan
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 5 Dec 1870
Birth Place: Galway, Ireland
Father's Name: Patrick Whelan
Mother's Name: Mary Kearney
FHL Film Number: 101218