Angela, I see that Patrick McPhillips was in the RIC, and presumably stationed at Trillick when he met Margaret. RIC policy was not to post an Officer to a county in which he or his wife had connections. Consequently when a police officer married someone local as in this case, it normally meant they had to move to another county. So that probably explains their move to Belfast. His service records may be on Ancestry.
Patrick appears to have been born in Latnamard, parish of Aghabog, Co. Monaghan. I see 3 children to Patrick & Margaret’s marriage, all born in Belfast: Patrick 13.7.1898 John 4.2.1902 James 29.4.1910 Here’s the family in the 1901 & 1911 censuses: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Dock_Ward/Spamount_Street/937355/ http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Dock_Ward/Spamount_Street/138472/ Griffiths Valuation for 1860 lists just 1 Maguire household in Monyegar. That was Charles. He had 2 plots of land. Charles appears to have died in 1877 aged 83, and the farm then passed to Bernard (who is there in the 1901 census). These 2 Maguire households in Moneygar in 1901: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Trillick/Moneygar/1741219/ http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Trillick/Moneygar/1741232/ Sarah Maguire died 20.2.1900 at Moneygar, aged 80. Her son Arthur was the informant. https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1900/05771/4631142.pdf A Probate abstract from the PRONI wills site. The full file is in PRONI in paper format. If you can’t get there in person they’ll copy it for a fee: Maguire John of Moneygar Trillick county Tyrone farmer died 29 March 1948 Probate Londonderry 22 December to Thomas McGee publican. Effects £682 5s. There were half a dozen McPhillips families in Latnamard in 1901. I’ll let you work out which is the right one: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Monaghan/Drumhillagh/Latnamard/ Elwyn On 23/07/2019, Angela Gawthorpe via CoTyroneList <cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> wrote: > It is a very long time since I wrote anything on this website and I have > forgotten how to do it. I am looking for information about the Maguire/ > Mcphillips family. My grandmother Margaret Maguire was born 5 Feb 1879 In > Irvinestown. She was Baptised in Kilskeery on 22nd Feb 1870. She was married > in the church on Mageheralough to Patrick McPhillips. on 4th Oct 1893. I > know they moved to Belfast where father and 2 other siblings were born. > Margaret’s father was Cornelius Maguire and his mother Sarah McCaghey/ > McCaughey. I think Sarah died on 20 Feb 1900 in Monegar. Any further help > would be great thanks. > Angela Gawthorpe > _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com Change Your Preferences: http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
