1911 Form A
Records Mary’s person, status, occupation, age, birthplace and household count.
Primary census evidence07 / Tullynascreen · 2 April 1911
Still here.
Still a farmer.
The family’s paths lead outward.
Mary’s record brings us home.
On the 1911 return: Mary McFaddin, widow, farmer, age seventy as written. Born in County Leitrim. One person recorded in this household that night.
One name on a census return does not mean a life without company. We do not know who visited or helped her.
Look closer at the holdingAbstract light motif—not a reconstruction of Mary’s home.
Three details that survived
A home, glimpsed
through the records.
Dwelling return · Form B.1
A room in the record. A life beyond it.
The building return records one room. It does not give us dimensions, a floor plan, furniture or sleeping arrangements.
The census describes the dwelling in broad categories—not everything that happened within it.
Walls and roof were entered in broad material groups. They do not establish an exact construction or a definite thatched roof.
Read the census and its limitsBehind the record · 2 April 1911 and after
What the forms can—and cannot—tell us.
1911 Forms B.1 and B.2
Record the dwelling categories and one fowl house.
Primary building evidenceWhat the building categories mean
The walls fall in the durable-material group and the roof in the perishable-material group. Those categories do not establish an exact material, definite thatch, dimensions, floor plan or furniture arrangement.
Limits of the building returnLater valuation and registration research
Later entries offer dated glimpses of the holding. They do not establish a descendant’s claim to it, and present owners’ details remain private.
Research in progressMary after 1911
Death, burial and possible overlap with Thomas’s return are not yet resolved.
Open researchLater glimpses of the holding
Mary appears in the 1901–1911 valuation and census records. Later revisions name changing rated occupiers; their identities are reviewed separately. A 1943 annotation reads “Bldgs Ruins”. These entries do not establish a claimant’s chain of title.
Present ownership is not questioned. Living-owner names, exact parcel details and access information remain private unless the owners approve the exact use.
Being the only person recorded that night does not tell us whether Mary had regular visitors or help. The census does not describe her whole social world.
The end of this story · not the end of the family
The record pauses. Her story remains open.
Mary’s marriage, children, widowhood and farming belong to her own story—not only to the journeys that began here. The 1911 census is the last record we have securely identified for her. Her death, burial and later life remain unresolved—not a reason to forget her, but a reason to keep looking.
Do you have a memory, record or local lead?Historical research does not confer a claim to the property. Present ownership is respected; private locations and owner details are not shown.