Individual Details
Honora (Nora) MOLONEY
(18 Nov 1879 - 13 May 1923)
The sponsors at Nora's baptism were Michael Hudson and Johanna Hudson.
Church records show a birth date for Nora of 18 January 1880 but Tom Moloney, a grandnephew of Nora's, has discovered that her birth date was probably exactly two months earlier, i.e. 18 November 1879. According to Tom, "While it is true that the Church record gives 18 Jan as the birth date, the Civil record gives the date as 15 December 1879. The civil record itself was registered on 16 January 1880, two days before she was born according to the parish records. I had been aware of this anomaly for some time but it was only recently that I looked into it to see if there might be some explanation. Well it turns out that not just Nora's date but several others are also out of sync. In fact the Church records no baptisms for the months of October and November 1879. Thereafter there is a preponderance of birth dates which are exactly 61 days after the corresponding date in the Civil Records. 61 days is the total number of days in October and November together. It became clear - to me at any rate - what happened. They had skipped two months. If the births for December are pushed back to October then they fall into line with those of the civil record. Likewise January 1880 needs to be pushed back to November 1879. Why did this happen? Surely they weren't so crazy that they didn't know what month it was. I think the baptisms were first recorded in a rough notebook and later entered in the official book. The person writing in the rough book may have written "10-bris" as a shorthand for October. When it came to entering them in the official book, the clerk must have interpreted "10-bris" as December. (That would be reasonable. Anyone reading old baptism registries will be familiar with the abbreviation system where "10-bris" is December, "9-bris" is November, etc.) Subsequent month names must not have been entered at all in the rough book: one would recognise the new month when the dates went from something like 30 or 31 back down to 1 or 2. This misplacing of dates carried on until June 1880. Then, suddenly, they jump back to April 1880 and thereafter carry on properly."
Nora's brother Jim married a sister (Hannah) of Nora's husband, Tom.
Nora died of heart failure at the age of 43. Her grave in the Old Abbey cemetery was never marked but is believed to have been just a short distance inside the gate.
Church records show a birth date for Nora of 18 January 1880 but Tom Moloney, a grandnephew of Nora's, has discovered that her birth date was probably exactly two months earlier, i.e. 18 November 1879. According to Tom, "While it is true that the Church record gives 18 Jan as the birth date, the Civil record gives the date as 15 December 1879. The civil record itself was registered on 16 January 1880, two days before she was born according to the parish records. I had been aware of this anomaly for some time but it was only recently that I looked into it to see if there might be some explanation. Well it turns out that not just Nora's date but several others are also out of sync. In fact the Church records no baptisms for the months of October and November 1879. Thereafter there is a preponderance of birth dates which are exactly 61 days after the corresponding date in the Civil Records. 61 days is the total number of days in October and November together. It became clear - to me at any rate - what happened. They had skipped two months. If the births for December are pushed back to October then they fall into line with those of the civil record. Likewise January 1880 needs to be pushed back to November 1879. Why did this happen? Surely they weren't so crazy that they didn't know what month it was. I think the baptisms were first recorded in a rough notebook and later entered in the official book. The person writing in the rough book may have written "10-bris" as a shorthand for October. When it came to entering them in the official book, the clerk must have interpreted "10-bris" as December. (That would be reasonable. Anyone reading old baptism registries will be familiar with the abbreviation system where "10-bris" is December, "9-bris" is November, etc.) Subsequent month names must not have been entered at all in the rough book: one would recognise the new month when the dates went from something like 30 or 31 back down to 1 or 2. This misplacing of dates carried on until June 1880. Then, suddenly, they jump back to April 1880 and thereafter carry on properly."
Nora's brother Jim married a sister (Hannah) of Nora's husband, Tom.
Nora died of heart failure at the age of 43. Her grave in the Old Abbey cemetery was never marked but is believed to have been just a short distance inside the gate.
Events
| Birth | 18 Nov 1879 | Islandanny, Duagh, Co. Kerry | |||
| Christen | 20 Nov 1879 | Duagh, Co. Kerry | |||
| Marriage | 1 Feb 1908 | St. Brigid's Church, Duagh, Co. Kerry - Thomas (Tom) FITZGERALD | |||
| Death | 13 May 1923 | Glenshrone, Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick | |||
| Burial | Old Abbey cemetery, Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick |
Families
| Spouse | Thomas (Tom) FITZGERALD (1872 - 1940) |
| Child | John FITZGERALD (1909 - 1910) |
| Child | Margaret Mary FITZGERALD (1910 - 1999) |
| Child | Denis FITZGERALD (1912 - 1968) |
| Child | Catherine Cecelia FITZGERALD (1913 - 1917) |
| Child | Mary Teresa FITZGERALD (1916 - 1999) |
| Child | Hanora Ita FITZGERALD (1917 - 1918) |
| Child | Helen Winifred FITZGERALD (1918 - 2006) |
| Father | John MOLONEY (1849 - 1936) |
| Mother | Margaret HUDSON (1852 - 1910) |
| Sibling | John MOLONEY (1876 - 1950) |
| Sibling | Edmund MOLONEY (1878 - 1901) |
| Sibling | Denis Joseph MOLONEY (1881 - 1946) |
| Sibling | Margaret MOLONEY (1883 - 1893) |
| Sibling | Thomas (Tom) MOLONEY (1885 - 1901) |
| Sibling | Mary Ann MOLONEY (1886 - 1922) |
| Sibling | James (Jim) MOLONEY (1889 - 1976) |
| Sibling | Johanna (Hannah) MOLONEY (1891 - 1908) |