Where in Ireland did Hugh O'Donnell marry?

Question

Hugh was born in Ireland and formed his family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I've been unable to find his marriage or birth location. Any and all help appreciated!!

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Living next door to Hugh in 1880 Census is a Hannah O'Donnell (Single) aged 50 might be a Sister?

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Thanks Heather!

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Have we found a death certificate yet? Just found one for 1914? Quarry Street which is 15 minutes walk from 1910 address of Wallace Street. Hugh O'Donnell

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Thanks for sharing that, isn't that strange that it says that he is married but it doesn't give the name of his wife.  However it does say his father was James and his mother's name, surname maybe McNamara??  I wonder if find a grave has him?

Answer 1

I found Hugh's death certificate in 1918 - at the address where his family was enumerated in 1920 - and added it to the profile.  It names his father, but not his mother.

Familysearch's PA death certificates seem to stop in 1915, but Ancestry.com's run to 1968.  At one point they used to add another year's worth annually to keep the collection up to 50 years before the present, but that seems to have stopped.

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I have also found Hugh's widow's death certificate in the same source and added the details to her profile - including both parents, who are named on this one.

Answer 2

Do you have his death certificate or registry which may give his parents names?  Or his shipping record, naturalization records or when he came over and where the ship came from?  Did he come with any other family who may have written up history of the family?  Are you sure of his date of birth?  

It would be good to get his daughters birth certificate or wherever they got her birth registry from because I don't know and can't find a Shahans Ireland, although I know that Shahan is a family name in Ireland.

There are and were millions of people in Ireland and many with the same name.  The birth registry's were not required until the mid 1840's, although some parishes have earlier records and the census' aren't complete until the 1900.  census

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Many online trees show a date of death of August 14, 1904 for Hugh. That date does not appear to belong to this Hugh. Hugh is still listed in the 1910 census with his wife and daughter in 1910 and the Hugh that died in 1904 was listed as single.

It looks like we have a birth and death date for his daughter Anna Rebecca, but not the documents that might give us locations.

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I found Anna's death. It just says Ireland for her and her parents place of birth.

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His daughter Rose is said to have been baptized in Tyrone and Donegal. Her parents are listed as Hugh O'Donnel and Rebecca O'Neil. Are those names too common for this to be a match?

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Tyrone and Donegal are two different counties, unless there is a parish that crosses the line?  

Yes Hugh O'Donnel and Rebecca O'Neil are very common names, the O'Donnel's and O'Neil's are two major families/clans in what we call northern ireland today.

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Just realised why O'Donnell's favour Hugh - Red Hugh O'Donnell 

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And Hugh Roe O'Donnell was imprisoned and Hugh O'Neill helped him escape! Though at one point the O'Donnells and O'Neills were fighting (Easily Sidetracked)

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Long history everyone has been fighting for eon's.  Then there is the english influence and the scotch planters with names very similar for each of their communities.

It is really important that the location in Ireland is found, the Griffith's Valuation was a valutation of all property leased or owned in Ireland in 1847 - 1863 since Hugh's possible death certificate says that his father's name was James, assuming that he was a farmer??? which we don't know for sure.  These are the James O'Donnell's for the time period just in Donegal, if you go back to the search page and enter county Tyrone it will show you how many of that name were there for that time period.   https://foreignlegion.info/2018/11/03/historical-events-most-complete-database/

I will share that somewhere in the generations is a tidbit that will shed light on where he came from, perhaps one of his children's descendants did some research or entered online what the knew about their ancestors.  

I will shed that with these well known last names they are almost certainly Catholic, if your family is still not today.

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I got sidetracked looking at the Arcadians yesterday so think there's a theme  A lot of the fighting was landgrabs so nothing changes really! that or religion. Years ago I was researching Olaf the White Erik the Red etc infiltrated the Celts / Pagans (old English tribes) by marriage. Love over War  

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It is a challenge to stay focused when there is so much to learn and everything we know about an area or a family helps us to locate a particular person.  Sidetracking is wonderful!!!

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Shahans should read Strabane in co Tyrone, cross the bridge from Strabane and you are in Lifford co Donegal.

The district of Rebecca's birth was Castlefinn in co Donegal - https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1865/03563/2312393.pdf

Edit: whoops I didn't spot that in his profile.

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I am aware of the Strabane area, just wondering how we are certain that Sarah is from that area?  

The link you put up is for the church records but does not take me to a specific record unfortunately.  Was the connection to her birth registry, baptism, death etc?

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Strange that link works for me, my whoops was due to the fact the link was already on the Wikitree profile.

From the profile we know that the District was Castlefin and the RC parish was Clonleigh.

The RC registers referred to in the profile give the address as Killendaragh which appears to be at the edge of the Town Parks townland in Lifford.

The best match in Griffths to Killendaragh is John Donnell at 31 Letterkenny Road.