Thursday 11 October 2012

Ireland BMD Registrations for M'Ilhaggo

One of the resources used by Ancestry.co.uk is Ireland's Death Registrations. Although in my own clan Deaths Index I already had quite a lot of people using the surname spelling McIlhaggo, when I searched for the references to M'Ilhaggo I was surprised to receive no fewer than another 14, all quite early, indeed one going back to the 18th Century. The second surprise was that four of them were registered in Larne, where I have very few 'vital statistics'. Here they are (the figures are volume number followed by page number):

Mary 82 (born about 1785); died 1867 Antrim 1-6;
George 76 (bc 1804); died Jan-Mar 1880 Larne 1-553;
William John 83 (bc 1812); died Jan-Mar 1895 Larne 1-537;
Nathaniel 64 (bc 1821); died Jul-Sep 1885 Belfast 1-181;
Mary Jane 66 (bc 1828); died Apr-Jun 1894 Larne 1-483;
Elizabeth 40 (bc 1836); died 1876 Belfast 6-268;
Eliza Ann 37 (bc 1840); died 1877 Belfast 11-153;
Rebecca 40 (bc 1852); died Oct-Dec 1892 Belfast 1-196;
Hannah 1 (b 1866); died 1867 Antrim 1-6;
Samuel 1 (b 1866); died 1867 Belfast 16-220;
Susan 0 (b 1867); died 1867 Belfast 16-220;
Agnes 26 (bc 1872); died Oct-Dec 1898 Larne 1-455;
George 0 (b 1880); died Apr-Jun 1880 Belfast 1-232;
Samuel James 0 (b 1880); died Apr-Jun 1880 Belfast 1-236.

In the Civil Registrations there were also 10 M'Ilhaggo Births, all of which I found I had already recorded, except for the registration volumes and pages, which are as follows (names of parents last from my own Index):

Susan 1868 Belfast 16-323; Samuel + Elizabeth (nee) Glass;
William Gage 1876 Antrim 6-5; Henry + Agnes Gardiner;
Robert 1877 Belfast 11-297; John + Margaret Douglass;
Daniel Jul-Sep 1880 Belfast 1-254; John + Margaret Douglass;
Ruth Jan-Mar 1881 Belfast 1-260; George + Elizabeth Patterson;
Wilson Jan-Mar 1881 Belfast 1-252; James + Rebecca Johnson;
Nathaniel Jan-Mar 1883 Belfast 1-264; James + Rebecca Johnson;
Agnes Jan-Mar 1892 Belfast 1-232; William + Jane Todd;
Ruth Jan-Mar 1902 Belfast 1-258; Samuel Robinson + Jane McNeice;
James Boyd Apr-Jun 1908 Belfast 1-254; William Hugh + Maggie Boyd.

Lastly under M'Ilhaggo I found 7 Marriage Registrations, six of which I had recorded fully in my Indexes, as follows:

Margaret 1867 Ballymena 16-181; spouse Samuel Sloan;
Ellen 1868 Ballymena 1-161; spouse Robert Scroggy;
Maria 1868 Antrim 6-45; spouse Samuel Winning;
John 1870 Antrim 1-35; spouse Margaret Douglass;
Margaret Jan-Mar 1879 Belfast 1-318; spouse Samuel Walker;
John Jul-Sep 1901 Ballymena 1-111; spouse Margaret Tuff.

I think I can put all these into Family Trees. However one last marriage I cannot place, that of Samuel, Jul-Sep 1883, Belfast 1-307. 'Ancestry' has a way of suggesting the possible name of a spouse by showing the whole Register page. In Samuel's case it showed three possibilities, Sarah Maloney, Agnes McCabe or Julia McCracken. I wonder which one was his wife?



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