You should be able to find parish records if they exist. There are two sources for
information of this sort Northern Ireland:
www.emeraldancestors.com and
www.rootsireland.ieboth however, are pay websites. Roots records collected directly from parish records and local sources. I don't see any specific Parish of Enniskillen, and possibly nothing early enough for their births but you might catch the marriage and the children. But worth the money just to see what's there.
This is early for Irish records, so many destroyed.
Census substitutes:
www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie Tithe Applotments 1823-1837 throughout Ireland
(can have some parishes in some counties missing and other not there at all)
www.askaboutireland.ie 1845-1864
21 Phair's. in Fermanagh 1862 , so much later than the usualy 1850's, but same for most of
Northern Ireland.
1 Parish Galloon
12 Aghalurcher
1 Kinawley * PLU Enniskillen
1 Magheracross * Enniskillen
2 Enniskillen - James (could be same person with 2 properties) * Enniskillen
1 Derrybrusk * PLU Enniskillen
3 Killesher * PLU Enniskillen
There are 50 some Humpheries by 1862 and only 1 in the Parish Kinawley matching the Pharis.
However, there are two Humpheries in the Poor Law Union of Enniskillen 1 William in the
Parish of Cleenish and James Parish of Devenish. A Poor Law Union was an area of 12 miles and would cover all parishes, villages, townlands within. Later became the Civil Registration District as well after 1864.
Generally but not always if the couple come from two different parishes the marriage took place in the bride's parish and sometimes first children would be born their at their mother's, mothers home. They
would live in the husband's parish.
P parish birth will give father's name and mother's maiden name, a marriage only both of the father's are usually listed.
Enniskillen has a long history. It was a town and civil parish in Co. Fermanagh, chief town, a borough and market town. Diocese Clogher.
www.irelandxo.com/group/enniskillen-fermanaghwww.ballynagarrick.net/ulsterancestorswww.census.nationalarchives.ie 1901/1911 and recently added fragments of census from the years 1821-1851, results depends on survival of these records from the Four Courts Fire 1922.
I found no records.
I looked through other sources, no marriages early enough except those that died in Ireland.
If you have records showing Mary and children lost at sea or should think of the possibility
that William just left and never returned and he probably remarried. That happened a lot, more than you can imagine.
Was the marriage 1838 or Mary Phair's birth occurred that year. Generally irish men marriage about age 25, so about 1841. If Mary was born 1838 she would of been 3 at marriage? women generally married about 20. If marriage in 1838 she was probably born about 1818?
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