What happened to the Reillys?

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

There is a baptism in the Irish Catholic PR's:
St Andrew's, Dublin City
2 Jan 1839 John OConnell Reilly, Michl Robt & Helen, SS Jos McKenna & Bridget Halpin

So this could be the parents' marriage:
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/16...nSearchResults

St Marylebone, Westminster
Michael Robert Rielly OTP bach & Helen Thomson OTP sp married by banns 5 Jul 1832 witnessesx John Bean, Ann (or Wm?) Bean

Wow, that's interesting, Kate. I've never seen him with the name Michael before. If that it them they certainly got around - Ireland, Scotland, Wales, back to Ireland for a birth, Liverpool and then Birkenhead!

[ElizabethHerts]

I would have expected them to have had an RC marriage. Perhaps Helen was born a Protestant.

[kiterunner]

They wouldn't have been able to have a Catholic marriage in England and Wales at that time, though, would they?

[ElizabethHerts]

I think the Liverpool connection is muddying the waters for me!

"About Liverpool, England, Catholic Marriages, 1754-1921

While the majority of the marriages recorded in this database come from the period after a new Catholic diocese was established in Liverpool in 1850, some extend back into the 18th century, when Catholicism still operated under legal sanctions in England. The 1559 Act of Uniformity had made the Church of England the official state church, and until the Catholic Relief Act passed in 1829, Roman Catholics faced varying degrees of legal discrimination. For this reason, registers of Catholic ordinances, like the ordinances themselves, were sometimes kept secret, and sometimes ordinances weren’t recorded at all.

In spite of this, thousands of Catholic registers exist, and parish records—whether Catholic or Protestant—are the best sources of vital record information before civil registration began in England in 1837 and remain an important source thereafter. Liverpool itself has historically been home to one the largest Catholic populations in England."

[kiterunner]

Thomas is also on crew lists in 1867, same ship as in 1866.

[ElizabethHerts]

Thanks, Kate.

Isabella Reilly's godparents were Thomas and Ann McGlue (lovely name!).

Here they are on the 1851 Census:

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/88...&_phsrc=lES388

Thomas McGlue is a gardener, as was Robert Reilly.

I wonder if they are related to the Reillys. I can't find a marriage for Thomas and Ann.

[ElizabethHerts]

John McGlue married Sarah Hood at St Thomas's Liverpool (C of E). His father was Thomas McGlue, gardener.

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/21...&usePUBJs=true

[garstonite]

Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts

John McGlue married Sarah Hood at St Thomas's Liverpool (C of E). His father was Thomas McGlue, gardener.

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/21...&usePUBJs=true

sadly - there is no date as the record was obscured by water damage...

Marriage: ? 1869 St Thomas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
John Mc Glue - full, Bricklayer, Bachelor, Liverpool
Sarah Hood - full, Spinster, Liverpool
Groom's Father: Thomas Mc Glue, Gardener
Bride's Father: William Hood, Shipwright
Witness: Susannah Aurthur; Philip Mc Culla, (X)
Married by Thos. L. Pain M. A. Incumbent by: Banns
Notes: [Date obscured by water-damage]

[kiterunner]

The date is on the image, Allan - 18 Apr 1869.

[ElizabethHerts]

Thanks, Allan.