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Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Β· General Register Office

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Free scanned images of the original registrars' returns. Cited here from the images themselves, not from a transcription index.

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Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Deaths, Lurgan No. 2, 1893, page 562, entry 420 Primary

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Β· General Register Office

For Margaret Ruth McKinney (1825–1893)

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.

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Deaths, Belfast Urban No. 11, 1919, entry 171 Primary

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Β· General Register Office

For John Metcalf (1825–1919)

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.

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Deaths, Lurgan No. 2, 1874, page 485, entry 248 Primary

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Β· General Register Office

For William Metcalf (1784–1874)

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.

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Registration No 2076185 Β· Year 1904 Primary

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Β· General Register Office

For James McElgunn Gunn (1872–1949)

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.

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Registration No 2076185 Β· Year 1904 Primary

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Β· General Register Office

For Alice Julia Donnelly (1882–1950)

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).

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Deaths, Lurgan, 1876, page 467, entry 425 Primary

Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, Ireland Β· General Register Office

For Deborah Metcalf (1794–1876)

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.