Search for Major/Mcclure

The marriage is listed in the civil BMD Index, so non-Catholic, as follows :

Name : William Major
Event Type : Marriage
Registration Year : 1858
Registration District : Monaghan
Volume 8 / Page 169

one of the names with the same references is an Elizabeth Mcclure. You can use the above references to order a research cert from the GRO costing €4, which will provide a few additional details to help your search - e.g. name and denomination of the church, or name of registry office, occupations for the groom & fathers, residences for the bride and groom, names of witnesses and the name of the minister or registrar. see this link to download the order form.

There doesn't seem to by anyone on Griffith's Valuation with the surname Major listed in Co. Monaghan, and all the results I get for people named Thomas Major are for Antrim or Londonderry. There are McClure results for Co. Monaghan, but no Frank, although he may have been deceased by the time of the marriage. Have you located the family on the Scottish census returns, if so what do William and Elizabeth give as their places of birth ?

Edit : the extracted version of the civil marriage record is on FamilySearch here  These give some of the detail from the register, but dont include the items I mentioned above. The location on these extracted records is often the name of a registration sub-district.

Name:     William Major
Spouse's Name:     Elizabeth Mcclure
Event Date:     13 Apr 1858
Event Place:     Clontibret, Mon, Ireland
Father's Name:     Thomas Major
Spouse's Father's Name:     Frank Mcclure
Marital Status:     Single
Spouse's Marital Status:     Single

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Seems to have married very young, just 19y...

Name:     William Major
Event Type:     Census
Event Date:     1861
Gender:     Male
Age:     22
Registration District:     Kilwinning
County:     Ayrshire
Birth Year (Estimated):     1839

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This looks like another child...

Name:     Alexander Dixon Major
Gender:     Male
Birth Date:     17 Dec 1872
Birthplace:     DALRYMPLE,AYR,SCOTLAND
Father's Name:     William Major
Mother's Name:     Elizabeth Mcclure

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No entry for either family in Griffiths Valuation...
http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/monaghan/clontibret.htm

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There were Mcclures in monaghan in 1901, but no MAJORs.

Maybe he was from another county nearby ??

My grandfather and his father were from Fermanagh, but both married girls from Monaghan...

Clontibret seems to border with Armagh...
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/townlands/index.cfm?fuseaction…

Regards,

SEAN

Thank you Shane and Sean. Good luck with your research Gregory!

Best wishes

Clare Doyle

Genealogy Support