Marriage of Myles Lyne (widower) and Margaret Shea alias Sullivan (widow), 9 June 1865, Ardgroom

Summary

Entry 10 of four 1865 marriages registered together on this page. **Myles Lyne** (Full age, **Widower**, Farmer, of [Lehinverin or similar near Ardgroom]; father **Jeremiah Lyne**, Farmer, deceased) married **Margaret Shea alias Sullivan** (Full age, **Widow**, of Ardgroom; father **[John?] Shea**, Farmer) on **9 June 1865** at the Roman Catholic Chapel of Eyries, Union of Castletown. Solemnized by **Michael O'Reilly, P.P.** Witnesses: **Jeremiah McCarthy** and **Ellen O'Reilly** (or similar — co-witness reading ambiguous in cursive). Registered + certified by **T. R. Harrington**, Superintendent Registrar for Kilcatherine. **Both parties were widowed** at this 1865 marriage: - Myles Lyne was previously married (probably had Lyne children from a first marriage) - Margaret Shea was previously married to a Sullivan (per the "alias Sullivan" notation — confirmed by the 1855 Sullivan-Shea marriage cert: John Sullivan + Margaret Shea m. 20 Feb 1855 Eyeries). John Sullivan died before 1865, leaving Margaret widowed with possible Sullivan children.

Parties named in the record

• groom
  Myles Lyne(= Myles Lyne (Ardgroom farmer; father of Ellen Lyne Murphy))100

  age: full age · status: Widower · occupation: Farmer

• bride
  Margaret Shea alias Sullivan(= Margaret (Shea) Sullivan Lyne (JJM's maternal grandmother))100

  age: full age · status: Widow · residence: Ardgroom

• father of groom
  Jeremiah Lyne (deceased)(= Jeremiah Lyne (JJM's maternal great-grandfather))95

  occupation: Farmer

People — link detail

• Myles Lyne (Ardgroom farmer; father of Ellen Lyne Murphy)(as printed: Myles Lyne)
  role: groom · family confidence: 100 certain

  age: full age · status: Widower · occupation: Farmer

  JJM's maternal grandfather. The 1881 Pat-Ellen marriage cert already named Myles Lyne as Ellen Lyne's father. This 1865 cert is his own marriage record, giving us his prior-marriage status (widower) and his father's name (Jeremiah Lyne).

• Margaret (Shea) Sullivan Lyne (JJM's maternal grandmother)(as printed: Margaret Shea alias Sullivan)
  role: bride · family confidence: 100 certain

  age: full age · status: Widow · residence: Ardgroom

  JJM's maternal grandmother — newly identified by name through this 1865 cert. Her birth surname is Shea (per the cert) and her first married name was Sullivan (per the "alias Sullivan" notation, corroborated by the 1855 cert documenting her marriage to John Sullivan).

• Jeremiah Lyne (JJM's maternal great-grandfather)(as printed: Jeremiah Lyne (deceased))
  role: father of groom · family confidence: 95 certain

  occupation: Farmer

  JJM's maternal great-grandfather. Already deceased by 1865. First appearance in the archive.

Also mentioned

• Michael O'Reilly P.P. · officiating_priest

  Parish Priest at Ardgroom (RC Chapel of Eyries) in June 1865. Solemnized all four marriages on this page.

• Jeremiah McCarthy · witness

  Marriage witness; same surname as the 1881 Pat-Ellen marriage witness 'James McCarthy' — possibly same family.

• Ellen O'Reilly · witness

  Co-witness signature ambiguous; could be Ellen O'Reilly or similar.

• T. R. Harrington · superintendent_registrar

  Civil registrar for the Castletown Union in 1865. Same surname as Charles Harrison the registrar on the 1881 Pat-Ellen cert — could be the same family.

Places

• Castletownbere, County Cork (primary)
• County Cork (primary)
• Beara Peninsula (primary)
• Ireland (primary)
• Ardgroom (village + RC Chapel) (primary)

Themes

• irish_american_community
• emigration_from_ireland

Story threads

• The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980
• Berehaven Murphys

Tags

• source_primary_family
• evidence_corroborating
• direct_family

Related sources

• 1855-02-20 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland (Church Marriage Record) — Margaret Shea's FIRST marriage — to John Sullivan, 20 Feb 1855, Eyeries
• 1881-02-13 — Marriage Returns, Superintendent Registrar's District of Castletown — Marriage of Patrick Murphy and Ellen Lyne, 13 Feb 1881, Ardgroom
• 1884-02-23 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland — Patrick 'Tailor' Sullivan + Catherine Murphy marriage — 23 Feb 1884 Eyeries (Catherine = JJM's paternal aunt + godmother)

Open questions

• Myles Lyne's first wife and any children from that marriage — unknown. Worth probing pre-1865 Eyeries parish registers for a "Myles Lyne" first marriage.
• The townland where Myles lived in 1865 — handwriting reads as "Lehinverin" or similar. Could be a variant of Lehid Veen, Lehinveen, or another Eyeries-parish townland.
• Witness "Ellen O'Reilly" — possibly related to the officiating priest Michael O'Reilly P.P., or a separate family.