Genealogy Chat

Think I have lost the plot somewhere and need help please. In the good old days of IGI - insert a name, covering bapts/marriages etc and in the case of a marriage up would come details of spouse, church, date etc.

Now I am looking for the marriage of a Mary Soye and according to Family Search this took place in Lurgan, Ireland in 1875 - but no details other than that except page/volume/digitals numbers etc.

Is there somewhere I should feed in these details and get my info? Please!

Hi Chris,

are you using this site?

https://www.familysearch.org/


Dee x

www.familysearch.org-search. Am I on the wrong one Dee?

So this is what you have?

Name: Mary Soye
Registration District: Lurgan
Event Type: MARRIAGES
Registration Quarter and Year: 1875
Estimated Birth Year:
Age (at Death):
Mother's Maiden Name:
Film Number: 101252
Volume Number: 1
Page Number: 887
Digital Folder Number: 4179385
Image Number: 00454


Do you know who she married? If not what I tend to do (bit of a trawl though);

Delete the names, add in the area and the exact year......... then look through them until you match the volume and page number.


Dee x

Looks like it's only coming up as a regsitration and not the actual church records.


Dee x

Same details and lack of spouse coming up!

This is the old search Chris

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

Yes Dee that is what I have - I am hoping she married a man named Marquis.

I'll try that Rose Thanks to both.

I give in. According to that Mary Soye does not even exist!

Hi Chris,

couldn't see a marriage for Marquis and did look at all the males until page 5........ then I realised that there were 43 pages........... ARGHHH!!!

Do we know anything else about Margaret and gentleman Marquis?


Dee x

That Mary Soye married James Gracey

Name: James Gracey
Registration District: Lurgan
Event Type: MARRIAGES
Registration Quarter and Year: 1875
Estimated Birth Year:
Age (at Death):
Mother's Maiden Name:
Film Number: 101252
Volume Number: 1
Page Number: 887
Digital Folder Number: 4179385
Image Number: 00378
Collection: Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958

No and it is Mary - picked up in Ireland 1901 census looking for Sarah Downey - listed as Sorah and living with Mary Marquis aged 38 (sister) in Co Antrim.

Just done my sums and cannot be the same Mary Soye!! But it is still possibly Mary Soye marrying a Marquis circ 1890????

Thanks Maura - that solves that - wish we had FreeBMD for Ireland! Looks like a brick wall. Friend will have to go to Belfast and search her parish records!!

There's a marriage for a Mary Downey to a Henry Marcquis 1897

There also a marriage for a Sarah Jane Soye to a James Downey 1902

Maura I will keep a note of those two. Thank you for your help.

The GRO(I) index thru 1958 (excl N. Ireland post-partition) is available at:
https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/list#page=1®ion=EUROPE

One can purchase certs (or cheaper still, the uncertified images of the rego) via:
http://www.groireland.ie/

The Irish 1901/1911 censuses are free at:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
[Not heard of any release dates for next census (=1926 in both Irelands)]