nelmit wrote:Montrose Budie wrote:As regards McGRO[A]RY now that we know that the whole family later went out to Aotearoa, the couple with whom you are in contact may well have a few cousins there !
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The 1884 marriage record of John MALLON and Agnes O'NEILL is rather difficult to read, and I'd be guessing if I wrote the names of the parents here. John's 1911 death, however, clearly shows his parents as Owen MALLON, Jobbing Gardener, and Mary MALLON MS SPELLMAN. The cause of death was enteric fever aka typhoid.
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Interesting that there is a Margaret Spelman McGrory listed on the NZ electoral roll.
Regards,
Annette
Which would tend to suggest that we're on the right lines !
This situation raises the interesting point of how often such a middle name can provide a valuable link.
In the instructions to the Scottish census enumerators they were specifically told not to record middle names or initials. Some heads of household did however provide that info, and some enumerartors transferred this info to the enumeration book, despite their instructions.
But the point here is that, given a census list of a number of wains in a census entry, with no middle initials shown, it's surprising just how often a look at the post 1854 birth register entries shows wains with very useful middle names, the more so in the later Victorian censuses, as the use of middle names becames ever more common.
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