SWEENEY, James
(About 1854-) |
SWEENEY, James 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Other names for James were SWEENIE, James,9 SWEENY, James 10 and SWENEY, James.11 User ID: L90. General Notes: In the birth certificate of his son James, James Sweeney senior wwas recorded as a labourer in waterworks. James Sweeney was the informant of the birth. His marriage to Sarah McGunnigal was recorded there as having taken place at Clandivaddock, County Donegal on 1 August 1875. Research Notes: CLANDIVADDOCK James married Sarah Ann McGUNNIGAL (DNA Link), daughter of James McGUNNIGAL (DNA Linked) and Margaret HARKIN (DNA Linked), on 1 August 1875 in Rathgory, County Donegal, Ireland.1 (Sarah Ann McGUNNIGAL (DNA Link) was born about 1855 in County Donegal, Ireland,3 4 10 died on 25 October 1924 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand 13 14 and was buried in 1924 in Linwood Cemetery, Linwood, Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand 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 1891 UK Census, Bothwell parish Lanarkshire; ED: 14; Page: 11.
4 ancestry.co.uk, New Zealand, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920.
5 ancestry.co.uk, New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922 (1910 September Suffolk).
6 ancestry.co.uk, New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 Canterbury, North, Central.
7 ancestry.co.uk, New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922.
8 GRO Scotland, Bellshill district Lanarkshire Marriages 1906.
9 1881 UK census, Bothwell parish Lanarkshire; ED: 13; Page: 15.
10 1901 UK Census, Bothwell parish Lanarkshire; ED: 16; Page: 19;.
11 GRO Scotland, Holytown district Lanarkshire Births 1877.
12 Internet Site, https://www.townlands.ie/donegal/kilmacrenan/clondavaddog/rosnakill/rathgory/.
13 ancestry.co.uk, Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current.
14 ancestry.co.uk, New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1964.
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