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Marriage recorded in different locations

  • 20-04-2021 9:58am
    #1
    Hermy
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    Michael Brennan and Mary Guinan were married on Aug 14th 1871.

    The civil record states that they married in Galway City but there is also an entry in the parish register (right hand page, 2nd from top) of their local parish church in Kiltormer with the same date and witnesses.

    Why would this be so?
    I'm assuming the entry in the parish register is just the local priest recording that the marriage has taken place, albeit at a different location, but if that's the case it's odd that he hasn't included a note of the location.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • #2
    Peregrinus
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    The civil record looks a bit iffy to me. It says that the couple married in "the Roman Catholic Chapel of Galway". That doesn't identify any particular church, since there would be no church called "Galway Chapel" or anything like that. Contrast all the other entries on the page where St. Nicholas's Church in Galway is identified.

    My wild guess is that the wedding took place in Kiltormer, and was noted in the parish register in the usual way. In due course the celebrant sent details to the Registrar in Galway but somewhere along the way information as to which church the wedding was celebrated in became detached. Perhaps the returns from Kiltormer were consolidated with returns from other churches, and this detail was omitted. When it came to filling out the register the clerk was either unable to get the missing information, or couldn't be bothered, so he just entered generic information; the couple were married in some chapel in (County) Galway, or otherwise the information wouldn't have come to him, so he just put "Galway" in all the blank spaces.


  • #3
    Hermy
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    Thanks P.

    That could be it especially given the priest, Thomas Coen, was the PP of Kiltormer.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #4
    paddysdream
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    Not exactly the same but great great grandparents were married in Gormanstown Church in Kilcullen Parish Co. Kildare .
    No entry in that register but the marriage is recorded in the brides home parish of Dunlavin Co. Wicklow .
    Entry states that the couple were married by special licence by Fr X who was brother to the groom.He was serving in a different parish (Hacketstown ) at the time.
    Presume Kilcullen was chosen as halfway between bride (Dunlavin ,Wicklow )and groom (Mountmellick ,Laois)
    The Dunlavin Parish entry has no witnesses mentioned but the civil entry has them listed .


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