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♥♥♥Debbie♥♥♥

♥♥♥Debbie♥♥♥ Report 30 May 2017 23:08

Thanks. I think my mother in law said James for jeannie but she can't remember the smith one.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 30 May 2017 22:14

They may have married in Ireland.

Irish records are rather patchy. I've never found my late mother-in-law's birth in 1921.

There certainly isn't any record of them marrying in Scotland, at least as far as I can see.

Or you may be right, and they didn't actually marry their partners.

EDIT:

Or perhaps they married other people first, and then later married Messrs Smith and Maginn.
There are numerous marriages in Scotland of women named Sarah or Bridget McGeehan (or variant spelling), although none to a Smith or a Maginn.

What are the first names of these two gentlemen?

♥♥♥Debbie♥♥♥

♥♥♥Debbie♥♥♥ Report 30 May 2017 20:29

I have 3 sisters that were born in Letterkenny Ireland. Sometime between 1918-1922 they moved to the glasgow area. I have found there deaths but can't find any marriages apart from one of them that got married at the age of 63 which was Margaret. There was Margaret McGeehan born 08/03/1889 and she married a James Donaghey 1952 and she died 1957 in Auchterader Scotland, she was down as McDermid at one point and used the name Cunningham another time (not sure if she married any of them or not). Then there was Bridget born 20/12/1890 and she died a Smith in 1977 in the Glasgow area. Then there was Sarah Jane and she went by the name Jeannie and she died a Maginn, she was born in 06/01/1894 and died in 1984 in the Glasgow area. Their parents were called Charles McGeehan and Sarah McKinley. I'm hoping someone out there can find what i'm looking for as i have tried and tried but can't seem to find them to have got married unless they didn't and just took on their partners names :-S