Working Models (WM)

Trees (flexible) using family blocks Bars show strong links. Arrows, possible links / useful data

Numbers in Black = years in the 1800s, Green = Census 1901, Red = Census 1911. Blue = Calculated

Locations of births at the bottom, sponsors names in red italics – possible family connections.

Nice to include a trade other than farmer or agricultural labourer. In truth the catholic part of the population were not allowed to be anything else. Of course they had to provide their own services. In baptismal records trades tend to be cited when there is more than one person with the same name. The same is true in the smaller divisons of parishes, townlands, of course.

Here a family group are clearly weavers, passing skills and knowledge to the next generation.

In Wexford I found brothers who moved to Antrim (Belfast) for work in weaving. The British Empire wealth of the 1800s, being the first nation for economics until the First World War was bringing raw materials to England and Ireland. This of course ruined the cottage industry of weavers at home

The Weavers 1

There seems to be a group of families making a small tree. Both of James' sons cite their father being a weaver, yet he is not recorded as such.

The Weavers 2

On the left we see Jeremiah marries Johanna Callaghan and they have 6 recorded children. By a quirk of fate and record keeping, she is recorded again in a second marriage to Thomas Griffin.

It is not unusual to see women having second marriages but it is not common either.

Also included on this slide is another James

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