I knew my great grandparents came from County Galway, Bridget’s information from the LDS records and Thomas Dowd from his death certificate where it was indicated County Galway. But his birthday was different from the one HE GAVE on his Marriage License application too.
One day I was perusing CONNERS GENEALOGY site and came across a transcription from Glinsk Parish in County Galway. I found Thomas Dowd, with his sisters Mary, Norah and Catherine as well as his parents John Dowd/Doud and Catherine Fitzmorris, and a brother James. The dates on his Death Certificate and the Baptism Registry match. But, why did they give different date and why did both dates match existing people of the same name living in County Galway living at the same time?
My biggest problem was the lack of Bridget’s siblings, I had a few theories; perhaps their mother had died in childbirth with the twins and Thomas remarried. This was my best because the death certificates yielded the parents of Thomas Naughton and Norah Malloy, sounded reasonable to me without any other information.
On Bridget’s Death Certificate her son Richard had entered Thomas Naughton and Norah Nee, where did he get that name? I just did not know nor could I figure it out. Allegheny County or the Marriage Records from St. Thomas did not record the names of the parents.
The last of this puzzle is why I could not find Catherine Naughton or her death certificate and where was she because my dad remembered her and he was born in 1918 and he remembered her so he would have been school aged at this time.
As the whole story ends it is because Catherine Naughton married a man named Patrick Naughton (no relation that I can find) and she was in the same town as all the others hiding in plain sight, as they say.
More on this saga as I find more information and on to change the people in my family tree…
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