A life in County Leitrim · records from 1861–1911
Mary
of Tullynascreen.
A family’s story is also
the story of those who stayed.
Mary Conlon McPadden. Wife of Michael.
Mother of James, Catherine, Thomas—and their siblings.
Leitrim fields in winter light · photographed in 2006.
Regional context—not Mary’s home or land.
Killenummery parish, County Leitrim · Reported 25 November 1861
Mary before “mother”
A faint line begins a household.
Before later records called her a widow and farmer, Mary appears under her own family name: Mary Conlon. A faint line in the Killenummery parish register is reported to record her marriage to Michael McPadden on 25 November 1861.
The witnesses were reported as John and Bridget Conlan. Their names may bring us closer to Mary’s own family, but the register does not state their relationship to her. Her parents, exact birth and childhood household remain unresolved.
Here Mary is not yet the widow in the later census or the mother watching children leave. She is a bride whose earlier life we are still trying to recover.
Strong reported reading tied to the correct primary pageThe target line still needs an independent high-resolution rereading. The page does not establish Mary’s parents, age, courtship, feelings or the witnesses’ relationship to her.
