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Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Death certificate
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:14:14 -0500
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Heather,

I know that French Canadian and Dutch women used their maiden names up
to the turn of the century. That was true in social situations and
especially true in church records. My Dutch g-g-grandmother gave her
maiden name to the census taken when she arrived in Michigan 1880 -
bless her, and her children carried their father's name. It was the only
clue I had to who she was in the old country.

One of those delightful finds in our genealogy searches.

Kelly Ward, Schoolcraft, Michigan USA

Heather Bray wrote:
> I wish to order a death certificate for my husband's great grandmother. She
> was alive, aged 80, in the 1901 census but not with the family in the 1911
> census.
> I am having trouble finding her in death indexes as we are not 100% sure
> which name she would have died under.
> She is believed to have been born Bridget Mulqueen and married John Healey
> (or Healy) but in the 1901 her son in law describes her as Bridget Mulqueen
> his mother in law. Did Irish women revert back to their maiden names when
> widowed? I have not struck this before.
> I only have access to death indexes to 1905. Is there an easy way to search
> death indexes up to 1911 for her.
> At the time of the 1901 census the family were living in the Poor Law Union
> of Kilmallock, Electoral District of Rockhill in the parish of Bruree. I am
> assuming this is where she died.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> Heather, New Zealand
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