Help reading marriage latin

spuncy

Can anyone make out the words, especially the first one?

Looks to me like:

Hectal (?) Proclam
tiones in Dublin
Dispensatis
a R.D. Kelsh

Thanks!

CeannRua

First word is factae. It looks like dispensatio rather than dispensatis and the rest looks right.

lottpaul

CeannRua wrote: »

First word is factae. It looks like dispensatio rather than dispensatis and the rest looks right.

That would read then " Proclamation made in Dublin -- dispensation from R D Kelsh" (who must be the priest as he has signed the marriage before this also as Rev R D Kelsh Killucan).

spuncy

Thanks a mil for the info CeannRua and the followup, Paul.

The marriage was by Father McLaughlin, Ballinabrackey parish in Meath, just south of Kinnegad. Father Kelsh is the parish priest of Killucan at the time (just north into Westmeath). The groom lives in Dublin.

The reason I'm especially interested in this detail is that the groom, John Murphy, lives in Dublin but gives his birth county as Westmeath in the 1901 census. However, I have not been able to find either a civil record or a church baptism record for him anywhere. The bride is from Ballinabrackey.

John's mother and father are listed in the marriage record as also living in Dublin (not specified where), but his mother has connections to both Ballinabrackey and Killucan. His father (John Murphy Snr) is likely from Kilkenny, based on Y-DNA research. I cannot find their marriage record either, but it is highly likely it was before civil registration.

I'm not sure how else Father Kelsh would fit into this except to conclude that the groom may have been baptised in Killucan originally. My knowledge of the procedures in this regard is quite lacking though.