McGUNNIGAL, Sarah Ann (DNA Link) 1 2 3
Other names for Sarah were McGONIGAL, Sarah,9 McGUNNIGAL, Sarah, SWEENEY, Sarah,9 10 SWEENEY, Sarah Ann,4 6 7 8 SWEENEY, Sarah Ann, Mrs,11 12 SWEENIE, Sarah 13 and SWEENY, Sarah.5 User ID: L74. General Notes: Sarah was aged 16 years old when recorded by the 1871 census, living with her family in Chapelhall, in the parish of Bothwell. She had been born in Ireland and was single. No occupation was noted for her, so she may have helped out at home. The family lived East of Biggar Road, in a dwelling that had one room windowed. Sarah married James SWEENEY on 1 August 1875 in Rathgory, County Donegal, Ireland.1 (James SWEENEY was born about 1854 in Rosnakill, County Donegal, Ireland 4 6 13.) Marriage Notes: In the 1876 birth certificate of his son Charles Sweeney in Chaplehall, James Sweeney, who notified the child's birth, was recorded as a labourer in an ironworks. His marriage to Sarah McGunnigal was recorded there as having taken place at Rathgory, County Donegal on 1 August 1875. A marriage record has not been found as yet in the Irish records. 1 |
1 GRO Scotland, Holytown district Lanarkshire Births 1876.
2 ancestry.co.uk, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950.
3 ancestry.co.uk, Brett Green Family Tree.
4 1891 UK Census, Bothwell parish Lanarkshire; ED: 14; Page: 11.
5 1901 UK Census, Bothwell parish Lanarkshire; ED: 16; Page: 19;.
6 ancestry.co.uk, New Zealand, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920.
7 ancestry.co.uk, Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current.
8 ancestry.co.uk, New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1964.
9 GRO Scotland, Bellshill district Lanarkshire Marriages 1906.
10 ancestry.co.uk, New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 Canterbury, North, Central.
11 ancestry.co.uk, New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922 (1910 September Suffolk).
12 ancestry.co.uk, New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922.
13 1881 UK census, Bothwell parish Lanarkshire; ED: 13; Page: 15.
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