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Hello can someone help please?
my grandma was mary hughes born 1883 Dublin her father being Michael Hughes a labourer this info was taken from her marriage cert in 1908 it does not stae that he was deceased its info on michael that I need so that I can then hopefully get the name of Marys mother and their family details
GRO IRELAND sent me the only birth cert for a Mary Christine in Dublin in 1883 at that states father name has Matthew Hughes

Have you looked for the family in censuses?
Do you think you have been sent the wrong birth certificate?
Who did your grandmother marry?
Thank-you

Is this the birth cert you have please?

Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958
about Mary Christina Hughes
Name: Mary Christina Hughes
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1883
Registration district: Dublin South
Birth Country: Ireland
Volume: 2
Page: 679
FHL Film Number: 101059

Try ........................

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

You haven't said where she married - or to whom

Hello Reggie
Mary married at Islington 1908 to James Henry Walker
Liz :-)

Hello Mel
Yes thats the one
Liz ,

Hello Patcham
Gro Ireland sent me this cert saying that she was the only Mary born that year
what I cannot get my head around is why would her marriage cert say fathers name Michael
yet on this birth cert it states fathers name has Matthew
I asked gro ireland if they would be so kind has to look again and they came back with a Mary born same year in North Dublin but again not to a Michael Hughes
Liz
On the basis of looking up the Mary`s family who I have the birth cert for I found out that by 1901 Matthew had died Catherine his wife was still alive and living at Bow Lane south Dublin the same is also for 1911 :-S

From Ancestry online image.....

Name: James Henry Walker .....carman
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1880
Spouse Name: Mary Hughes
Spouse Age: 24
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 12 Apr 1908
Parish: Poole's Park St Anne
Borough: Islington
Father Name: James Walker ......moulder
Spouse Father Name: Michael Hughes ....labourer
Register Type: Parish Register


Witnesses :- Mary Emma HAWKINS and Charles Thomas NUDD.

As Mary marries using just one Christian name, I think it is likely that her birth was registered with just that one name, - Mary too.

yes but on the copy of Mary`s death cert states name has Mary cristine Walker
:-|

Record set - 1911 Census for England & Wales
County - London
Address - 1 CARVILLE ST FINSBURY PARK N
Parish - ISLINGTON
Registration District - ISLINGTON
Sub District - TOLLINGTON
Census Reference - RG14PN839 RG78PN29 RD10 SD3 ED19 SN6

JAMES HENRY WALKER 1880 31 — LEEDS YORK M Head HORSE KEEPER (Cab yard)
MARY WALKER 1884 27 — DUBLIN IRELAND M Wife
ADELAIDA MARY WALKER 1910 1 — EAST FINCKLEY Daughter

[Marr 3 y - 1 live birth 1 still living EAST FINCKLEY=East Finchley]

The GRO(I) index thru 1958 (excl N. Ireland post-partition) is available at:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND

One can purchase certs (or cheaper still, the uncertified images of the rego) via:
http://www.groireland.ie/

The Irish 1901/1911 censuses are free at:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
If you look at the back of the A image or the enumerators summary sheet, you'll see the name of the poor law union - this usually coincides with the civil registration district.

Most City of Dublin parish registers are free online at:
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/
[There are also Carlow, Cork & Kerry OPRs there too]

Area - DUBLIN (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation - ST. CATHERINE
Marriage of MATHEW HUGHES of 28 BRAITHWAIT ST and KATE CULLEN of 17 BELVIEW on 13 February 1870
Husband Wife
Name MATHEW HUGHES KATE CULLEN
Address 28 BRAITHWAIT ST 17 BELVIEW
Occupation N/R N/R
Father THOMAS HUGHES DENIS CULLEN
Mother CATHERINE MARGARET
Further details in the record
Priest ED MATHEWS
Witness 1 HENRY BURGER
Witness 2 MARY HOGAN
About the record
Book Number Page Entry Number Record_Identifier Image Filename
N/R N/R N/R DU-RC-MA-102977 st.catherine_mf_1811-1857_ma_0278
[The surname's only given once, and it does look like Allen on image to me]

my thanks to everyone
:-)