Down and Connor

The Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor included about 40 parishes at the time of Sarah and Henry's marriage, most based in counties Antrim and Down. You can view a list of the parishes included in the Diocese as they were in the 1840s at this link and the parishes as they are now on the Diocese website. The registers used to keep vital records were kept by the individual parishes, there would be no additional copies held by the Diocese.

Based on details mentioned in previous post on this couple, they married in Dunean(e) Parish, and like many other Catholic Parishes the historic register for Duneane does not include details of death/burials. If Henry died after the start of civil registration in of deaths in 1864 then there should be a death cert available for him - see GRONI/NIDirect  (requires credits)

Thank you so much for your reply.  I will go and research.  I have been finding more out on the McClernon side than on my Devlin side, but I figure it could hold more clues.  Again, thank you so much for your reply.

Kat

If Henry died between 1838 and 1863 there won’t be any written record of his death in RC church or state records because neither kept such records at that time. You might find his name on a gravestone if he were wealthy enough to afford one. (Farmers often had gravestones, labourers generally did not). You would need to get someone to go round Cargan and Moneyglass graveyards to look for him. I don't think transcriptions for either graveyard are on-line anywhere.

1864 onwards you should get a death certificate. The death will have been registered in either Ballymena or Antrim depending on which townland he lived in (Duneane is split across 2 civil registration areas). Search the GRONI death records using “begins with McL” to encompass all the possible spellings.