Happy Anniversary!

99 years ago, on the 10th of November in 1916, my mother’s paternal grand uncle, Dominick Kilgariff, got married. Interestingly he remarried the same woman nine years later—but in a different church. What’s that about?

Dominick Kilgariff is my maternal grandfather’s older brother (all of grandpa John’s siblings were older as he was the youngest). Dominick was born 3 August 1882 in Sligo, Ireland, to Patrick Kilgariff (draper/rag dealer/peddler) of County Mayo and Mary Manion (Mannion, Manning, Mann, and various other spellings) of Strandhill, Killaspugbrone Townland, County Sligo. 

He was the seventh of twelve children. TWELVE! 

Here's the information from his baptism record from where he was baptized in the local Catholic church, and his civil birth record. 

Notice the birth dates are different. In Ireland at this time, if you reported your child's birth more than a month after they were born, you were charged a fine. So, often, the date reported to the government as the birth date was 'fudged' to avoid the fine.

(Notice the sponsor, above. His maternal grandfather's name was Francis Mannion. I would assume though, that this sponsor was not his grandfather but perhaps his mother's brother? Or cousin?)

Although he was born in the same county as his mother, the family mostly lived in County Tyrone as Dominick grew up. However, by 1901 the family was in Belfast. In the 1901 of census of Ireland,  Dominick was nineteen and recorded as still living with his parents and six of his siblings. Dominick was a tramway conductor. Here is that census.

By 1911 Dominick was living in Glasgow, Scotland with his older brother Joseph, Joseph's wife Agnes, and Agnes' son, James. Dominick's occupation is not given.

On 10 November 1916, Dominick gets married (the first time) to Mary Kydd. They were married in the Barony Parish Church in Glasgow, according to the forms of the Established Church of Scotland (Presbyterian). He is a railway goods checker. Here is that marriage registry form. He now has the middle initial "V."

Now, notice on the left side of the form. There is a notation that says: "According to the Rites of the Holy Catholic Church on June 3rd, 1925, St. Alphonsus Church, Great Hamilton Street, and then a reverend's name I can't read. So, it seems the couple was remarried in a Catholic wedding ceremony nine years after they were first married! 

They had five children:
Mary (1917-1974) [Maybe named after Dominick's mother?]

Catherine (1920-1996)

Dominick Vincent (1923-?) [junior, I assume]

Winifred (1923-2011) [Dominick had a sister Winifred]

Agnes (1925- ?) [possibly named after his sister-in-law, married to his brother Joseph]

Here is the only photo I have of great Uncle Dominick and great Aunt Mary. They're not very good, but it's all I have...I received it from one of Mary's relatives on Ancestry.com, a W. Wilkes. I believe Mary died in 1960, and Dominick in 1961.