Hi Chrissy,There were 3 Patrick Donahoe In the Griffiths Registrations For Bantry

 

Mike

 

Harrington Patrick New Barrack Rd, Bantry Kilmocomoge Cork

Harrington Patrick New Chapel, Bantry Kilmocomoge Cork

 

Harrington Patrick Lisheen Kilmocomoge Cork

Hi Chrissy,On checking Out Donahoe In stourbridge,There were the Following

Births Dec 1865   (>99%)
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Donahoe  Ann    Stourbridge  6c 171
Births Mar 1868   (>99%)
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DONAHOE  Thomas     Stourbridge  6c 192

Births Jun 1873   (>99%)
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Donahoe  Patrick     Stourbridge  6c 190  
Donahoe  Patrick     Stourbridge  6c 199 Births Mar 1877   (>99%)
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DONAHOE  Julia     Stourbridge  6c 200

 

 

Births Dec 1871   (>99%)
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Donahoe  Sabrina     Wolverhampton  6b 576  

 

I had Dismissed this One,For the time being,Ok the Bottom we Know is The Marriage,But there were 2 Patricks Born same year 1873 

 

Marriages Mar 1860  

Donahoe  Patrick     Stourbridge  6c 217

Harrington  Hannah     Stourbridge  6c 217

 

Chrissy on looking at the Census of 1861,It has Hannah as Ann,With a Mary Kelly aged 36

1871 census

Shows Patrick again with Ann

Patrick was aged 40 ,Ann was 28,Mary 9,Ellen 7,Thomas 3

Chrissy,I ment to add this

Mike

Harrington Denis Old Barrack Rd, Bantry Kilmocomoge Cork
Harrington Denis New Chapel, Bantry Kilmocomoge Cork

Hello Mike
 
Thank you for all the effort you are putting in on my behalf--------- you are certainly exploring avenues on the Irish side that I didn't even know about!
 
To answer your question re. Ellen Donahue/Donahoe(!) She didn't disappear she was still living within the family unit at 1881 only they were called DONAHIVES. She married James Beavon in 1886 (not Michael Harrington although his marriage does appear on the same page in the register) By 1891 she and her husband and two children are still living with her parents Patrick and Hannah( Ann) and by 1901 she is a widow with 5 children and living next door to her parents.
 
The children who I think may have gone to America (and I've nothing to substantiate this) it's just that they disappear and I can't find marriage or death certs for them are:
FANNY DONAHUE born c.1875
THOMAS DONAHUE born c.1868       All born Stourbridge.  
CATHERINE DONAHUEborn c.1871
 
Also CATHERINE HARRINGTON born 1857 Ireland and Aunt to the above people also disappears ( I discounted the 1870 Stourbridge wedding because she would only have been about 14. Although I did  check out the 1871 census for the two men that appeared on the same page of the register and drew a blank.
 
Apart from these four, all of the other members of these two families lived, married and died in the Stourbridge area so they have been relatively easy to keep tags on (once I got use to all the variations of their surname! Mind you I don't suppose their Irish brogue would have helped especially as the census enumerators were more accustomed to Black Country accents!!)
 
I must admit I have done no research on the Irish side, apart from looking at the two areas Bantry and Galway on the map because I really didn't know where to start, I've only been using the computer since Xmas and although the English census records are not easy the Irish side looked mind-boggling!!
So I really am grateful for all the info you have given me although some of it is still baffling .i.e.I didn't really know what the "Griffiths" was until I asked a friend.
 
Anyway thanks again.
 
Chris.