Walsh and Maher families of Ballydonnell, Mullinahone, County Tipperary.

What looks to be Edmond’s marriage to Ellen was possibly registered in Callan, Co. Kilkenny in Oct – Dec 1908 Vol 4, page 205. You can order a photocopy of the certificate from GRO Roscommon for €4 (euros). 

http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Apply-for-Certificates.aspx

You have to download and print off the form. Then either post or fax it back to them. You can’t e-mail it to them. However if you want them to e-mail the cert to back to you, they will do that, so tick the relevant box.

Put the reference details on the form (anywhere). Don’t worry about leaving some boxes blank. As long as GRO have the location, name(s), year, quarter (where there is one), volume and page number they should find it.

Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church which should be on the certificate, (unless it was a Registry Office marriage). That church may be the place to look for her baptism and that of any siblings.

This could be Edmond in the 1911 census, stationed in Mary St, Waterford:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Waterford/Waterford_No__5_Urban/Mary_Street/671655/

For information, RIC policy was not to post an Officer to a county where he or his wife had connections, so wherever he served, he wouldn’t have been a native of that county. And normally neither would his wife. His RIC service records should however tell you which county he did come from, and probably where his wife originated. You can get a copy of his RIC service record from a variety of sources eg the Garda Museum in Dublin, National Archives in Dublin or London (the originals are in London). If it doesn’t suit you to go there, the PSNI (police) museum in Belfast will provide you with a copy for a £25 fee.

https://www.psni.police.uk/inside-psni/our-history/genealogy/

John would have had to be 19 to join the RIC (18 if his father had served with them) and he had to have served 7 years before he could marry.

If you search for John on findmypast, they have the Irish Petty Sessions records and so you may be able to find court cases he was involved in by searching on his name plus Irish Petty Sessions.

Thank you Elwyn, I appreciate this. I have some of Edmond's RIC information. Persistance pays off. I've found, over the years, some second cousins  in England from Edmond's brother, Patrick who relocated to Manchester. Kind souls across the internet have sent additional information about my Walshes and Mahers.

I'm still looking for more connections, and hope for another trip to Ireland in the next year or so. I am so grateful for the help offered by Ireland Reaching Out, thanks again.