Patrick Grady/O'Grady

Hi Janny,

Do you have any idea from records how old rougly was Patrick? I checked rootsireland for possible birth records in Clare, assuming he was at least sixteen when he married Ellen-

Patrick Grady on 23 March 1842 to Michael Grady and Maria Rickards in Ennis parish

Patrick Grady on 4 Nov 1847 to Thomas Grady and Margaret Molony in Ennis parish

Patrick Grady in Jan 1853 to John Grady and Margaret Fahy in Mountshannon and Whitegate Parish

Patrick Grady on 12 June 1854 to Patrick Grady and Mary Crowe in Orchard Lane, Ennis Parish

Patrick Grady in Jan 1862 to Patrick Grady and Bridget Cullinan in Crusheen Parish

Do any of these stick out to you? Based on children's names you might be able to pick out likely matches. 

I also checked calendars of wills to see who in Clare left something to a Patrick O'Grady/Grady-

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTMJ-YKB?i=256&cc=1921…

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTMC-PJZ?i=147&cc=1921…

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTMX-DMK?i=206&cc=1921…; (this one granted Patrick and another man an estate worth over £447.This was a lot of money then, perhaps this is him as it might have seemed worth leaving NZ for?)

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R1R-9SD8?i=460&cc=192…; (this one granted Patrick and another man an estate worth £1, 109)

Death records are available online up to 1965 for Ireland on www.irishgenealogy.ie so there must be something there for Patrick if he stayed there. However you need to know the civil registration district it occured in. If anything jumps out at you here or links to any other clues you have, I'll see if I can look into it further

Hope some of this helps, Alicia

Hi Alicia,

Many thanks for your help. Even Patricks age is not clear as on his Intention to marry record he is 23 dated 15 December 1879. A labourer having been in New Zealand 7 months. I do Know he was working on the Wharf in Wellington  and then on Whiskers farm near Fielding. On his marriage Certificate dated 7th January 1880 his age is 25. He could have been older not sure. 

Children are in order of birth John, Catherine, Bridget (our relation),James, Patrick, Daniel, William, family talk say there was at least another child but I have not found any in cemetary searched or BDMs. On Bridgets birth Certificate 20 November 1884 his age is 30. On Williams Birth Certificate 14 January 1897 he is 40.

So from my deductions his birth is between 1855 and 1857

Cheers Janny