Originally posted by miss marple
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Not all Catholics are practicing Catholics. My family is from Dublin and both my father & his brother joined the British Army.
Some locals did join a local militia in Ireland, only to transfer to a full-time British regiment when they came of age.
That throws origins back again, if Mary can't be traced through her brother, either he was not her brother, or she was not from Limerick.
I agree that Limerick appears to have been her choice but a lot of Irish records were destroyed so I don't know if any unpublished parish registers might hold a clue.
Regards, Jon S.
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