Birth of MICHAEL GUNN on 28 July 1909 | Group registration ID: 841899 | SR District/Reg Area: Lisnaskea | Child's Sex: Male | Mother's Birth Surname: DONNELLY
Row from the irishgenealogy.ie civil birth index, quoted in the order the results list prints its fields. Retrieved 2026-08-30. Confirms the tree's 28 JUL 1909 to the day. Registered under the single given name Michael; the tree has Michael Joseph. The index row does not print the father's name.
1904. Marriage solemnized at the Roman Catholic Chapel of the Immaculate Conception Newtownbutler in the Registrar's District of Newtownbutler in the Union of Clones in the County of Fermanagh | 195 | 15th Day of November 1904 | James Gunn | full | Bachelor | Labourer | John Gunn deceased | Labourer | alice Donnelly | full | Spinster | Servant | Patrick Donnelly | Labourer
Read from the GRO marriage register page (image 5719039, marriage_returns/marriages_1904/10217) linked from the irishgenealogy.ie transcription; retrieved 2026-08-30. Quoted in the register's own column order, each party in turn: name and surname | age | condition | rank or profession | father's name and surname | rank or profession of father. Column 7 (residence at the time of marriage) is deliberately NOT quoted: both entries read as a townland followed by "Donagh", but the townland names are not confidently legible at the resolution the site publishes; my reading is Alice's as "Lisagurry" (compare Lissagorry Glebe, place #8945, her recorded birthplace) and James's as a townland beginning "Corna-". Both parties signed with a mark. The father named for James - John Gunn, already deceased in 1904 - matches the parents on his 1949 Queensland death registration ("John Gunn | Nancy Smyth", citation #49215); the father named for Alice - Patrick Donnelly - matches the tree's Patrick Donnelly (#70239); the two witnesses are surnamed Smyth, the surname of James's mother.
"1846. Marriage solemnized at The parish Church in the Parish of Moyntaghs in the County of Armagh" - John Metcalf & Ruth McKinney | ages 21 and 19 | Bachelor / Spinster | Labourer | residences Derryinver / Derryinver | Fathers: William Metcalf and John McKinney | fathers' rank: Labourer and Farmer | "according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland, by licence" - John Evans Lewis
The keystone record for this line. It names both fathers, fixes the townland as Derryinver in Montiaghs parish, Co. Armagh, and dates the marriage - the tree had no marriage date at all. Both fathers appear as tithe-payers in Derryinver in the 1833 Tithe Applotment Book (William under the variant spelling Midkiff), putting the family in the townland thirteen years before this marriage.
Party 1 Name: James Gunn | Party 2 Name: Alice Donnelly | Date of Event: 15/11/1904 | Group Registration ID: 2076185 | SR District/Reg Area: Clones
The irishgenealogy.ie index transcription of the same registration, quoted in the field order the record page prints. Retrieved 2026-08-30. This is the first evidence of the couple's marriage in the tree; family #20413 previously had no marriage date and union type "unknown".
Sixteenth December 1893, Derryinver | Ruth Metcalf | Female | Married | 68 years | "Wife of a Farmer" | Ulceration of Stomach, 3 months, Certified | Informant: John Metcalf, Present at death, Derryinver | Registered 22 December 1893
The recorded birth of 1 Feb 1835 is impossible: she married in February 1846, and the marriage return gives her age as 19. Age 68 in Dec 1893 gives birth c.1825, which fits that marriage age. Her forename in every register entry is Ruth, not Margaret Ruth; the informant is her husband John Metcalf of Derryinver. Death 1885 was also wrong.
Eleventh February 1919, 1 Avoneil [Street] | John Metcalf | M | Widower | 97 years | Retired Farmer | Senile Decay, Bronchitis, Certified | Informant: Lucinda Metcalf, Daughter, Present at death, 1 Avoneil St | Registered 12 February 1919
He did NOT emigrate to the United States - the EMIG event removed in this proposal was attached to the wrong person. He farmed at Derryinver, appears there in the 1901 census as a widower aged 74 with children Samuel, Lucinda, Margaret and John, later moved to Belfast, and died at 1 Avoneil Street aged 97. The daughter Lucinda who reports the death is one of the children enumerated with him in 1901. It was his daughter Deborah (person 5409) who went to America, where she married in 1881.
Fourth September 1874, Derryinver | William Metcalf | Male | Married | 90 years | Farmer | "Congestion of the Lungs, 5 days, uncertified, No Medical Attendant" | Informant: John Metcalf, Present at the death, Derryinver | Registered 11 September 1874
Age 90 in 1874 gives birth c.1784, not the 1790 previously recorded; and he died at Derryinver in 1874, not in 1850. The informant John Metcalf of Derryinver is his son (person 5410). Three of his children's marriage returns give his trade as Weaver, so he was a linen weaver described as a farmer by the end of his life.
James Gunn | full | Bachelor | Labourer | Father's Name and Surname: John Gunn deceased | Rank or Profession of Father: Labourer
His own row in the 1904 marriage register, quoted in column order (name | age | condition | rank or profession | father | father's rank). Names his father as John Gunn, dead by November 1904, independently of the 1949 Queensland death registration that gives his parents as John Gunn and Nancy Smyth. Neither John Gunn nor Nancy Smyth is in the tree yet; no person has been created for them here.
alice Donnelly | full | Spinster | Servant | Father's Name and Surname: Patrick Donnelly | Rank or Profession of Father: Labourer
Her own row in the 1904 marriage register, quoted in column order. Registered as "Donnelly" (the register hand writes a lower-case initial), not "O'Donnelly" as the tree's primary name has it; her 1950 Queensland death registration also reads "Donnelly". Names her father as Patrick Donnelly, labourer, matching the tree's Patrick Donnelly (#70239).
Twenty Second September 1876, Derryinver | Deborah Metcalf | Female | Widow | 82 years | "Widow of a Farmer" | Inflammation of the Lungs, 8 days | Informant: William Metcalf, Present at the Death, Derryinver | Registered 3 October 1876
Widow of a farmer at Derryinver, dying two years after William Metcalf the farmer of Derryinver: his relict. Her maiden surname is not recorded in the death return. She is almost certainly why the granddaughter (person 5409) is named Deborah.
1905 Twelfth October Carrickmacusker | Mary | Fem | James Gunn Carrickmacusker | Alice Gunn formerly Donnelly
A third attested spelling of the townland, from the GRO birth register page (image 1693536): the registrar wrote "Carrickmacusker" in 1905, the GEDCOM gave "Carrickmacoske" and "Carrickmacosker", and Wikidata Q104366596 has "Carrickmacosker". Recorded here so the merge above is auditable from the record rather than from resemblance.