Handwriting decipher thread *must post link to full page*

This is off-topic but I didn’t think it was worthy of a thread: Priests were responsible for reporting marriages to the registrar, right? I found a marriage that I think has butchered surnames and the only thing giving me pause is that the civil record has the same errors. But the priest would be the source of both records, correct?

Anyone care to decipher William Molloy's exact DoB on the last line of this sheet

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1884/02701/1994687.pdf

ath262 wrote: »

1884 March four (at) Kilcloony

Excellent thanks

Can anyone read what follows the sponsors' names in this baptism record? It is the sixth baptism down on the left page. 18 March 1849. Kinnegad parish, Diocese of Meath. Patrick, son of Thomas Grehan and Catherine Cunningham. Sponsors Michael Fox and Mary Grehan--and then ???

The name was actually Graham and they lived in Clonard, Co Meath, tho the head church of the parish was in Kinnegad, Co Westmeath. There is a possibility that the father was COI, in case that helps. Here's the link--

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000635234#page/94/mode/1up

Thank you both. I did see it elsewhere on the page but it's an odd way for a priest to write his name. But it's the only logical explanation. So he is 'illegible McA

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Here is more of the page from the Census which may help

Canadian Census 1851.png

I hope this is better, it's not an easy one, guesses may help.
Thanks

Dean Family 1851 Canadian Census (2).png

Thanks Hermy & VirginiaB, it's not at all easy. I'd guess that the person filling out the form did not know the name and was unclear what to write down.
Descendants of the Deans (or Deanes) in North America have put the name in as Damionaer in their trees but I haven't been able to find that name anywhere by searching etc.

I wonder about the first letter, it looks like a D ok but is unlike the other D's which are quite consistent (as in Dean in the 1st attachment). On the other hand there is no letter elsewhere that looks like this one.

The maiden name of the mother of the family Mary was Knightly and I have a lot of DNA matches to her descendants over there and have been trying for a few years to tie her in with my ancestors in Kerry so every little bit of information like that girls name might add to the knowledge.

Hermy wrote: »

What is the name after Thomas? It looks like Patrick but I'm not certain.

That name is Catherine I think.

That's a good call above - I also could see the Ann at the beginning and was wondering was it Annemarie Deane - The other names are very typical of the time and the scribe seems to run a lot of n's, s's and m's into an unlegible line - so perhaps it may be a matter of checking names of the time off against it and seeing if they fit. It's a difficult one

SophieLockhart wrote: »

By narrowing the letters of the mystery name, I think I can get 'Hannorah' out of it.

Yes - that's what I thought.