Sources & Citations — Greene Family Heritage

A genealogy without sources is just a story. This page lists every record, document, and conversation that underpins the people, events, and relationships displayed across the site. Where a record is held in an online archive, a link is provided. Where the source is family oral history, that is stated honestly. Confidence levels follow the genealogical standard: primary sources (original document, contemporaneous), high (multiple corroborating records), medium (one strong record, plausible inference), low (oral history or single weak inference).

Primary Original contemporaneous document High Multiple records corroborate Medium One strong record Low Oral history / weak inference

Sources by Category

Generated automatically from data/family.json. Each entry shows the source citation and the people it informs.

Research Log

A current snapshot of what Phase 11 resolved, what remains open, and which searches produced useful negative evidence.

Resolved

Thomas Greene × Bridget Clarke marriage found. The civil register confirms they married at Holy Cross, Dundrum on 20 June 1922. It names Thomas's father as William Greene, Traveller and Bridget's father as Patrick Clarke, Farmer. See Catherine's Story and the current family.json parent-child links.

Bridget Clarke birth found. Bridget was born at Mullaghfin, Duleek on 2 December 1891 to Patrick Clarke and Catherine Clinton. This resolves Catherine's maiden name and replaces the earlier Catherine McKenna false lead.

Still open

Patrick Clarke's death remains unresolved. He was alive when Bridget's birth was registered in December 1891 and dead by the 1901 Census. The Drogheda/Duleek civil death registers still need a targeted search.

Catherine Clinton × Patrick Clarke marriage remains unfound. The next lead is Duleek/Bellewstown Catholic parish registers, because a civil registration hit has not surfaced.

Elizabeth Harris's Jersey occupation cards and Arolsen/Biberach records remain open. The Jersey marriage certificate redirected the search to Jersey Archive rather than Guernsey.

Negative evidence

Patrick Clarke × Catherine Clinton civil marriage search. Searches in Co. Meath for 1880–1893 and national searches for 1875–1895 returned no civil-register hit. Record this as negative evidence, not proof the marriage did not happen.

Thomas Greene military service record not yet retrieved. Service papers for the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment are at The National Archives, Kew (WO 363 / WO 364) and Findmypast; many were destroyed in the 1940 Blitz.

Methodology Notes

Census triangulation: Where a person appears in 1901, 1911, and 1926 census, ages are cross-checked. A discrepancy of ±1 year is treated as normal (different enumeration months); > 3 years requires a research note.
Birthplace ambiguity: Portarlington straddles the historic county line between Kings Co. (Offaly) and Queens Co. (Laois). Thomas Greene is recorded under both at different censuses — both are correct depending on which side of the river the household stood.
Name normalisation: "Greene" / "Green" are treated as the same surname; the family used both spellings interchangeably until c.1900 after which "Greene" predominates. "Eithne" / "Ita" / "Eita" are all the same person — Mark's grandmother-in-law.
1926 Census: Released on 18 April 2026 — exactly 100 years after enumeration day — under Ireland's century rule. Several of this site's most important findings (Bridget's Duleek birthplace, Thomas at Switzers) emerged on launch day.
Confidence inheritance: A parent-child relationship can never have higher confidence than the lower of the two people's records. The site's family.json records confidence on every relationship explicitly.
Living people: Birth dates and addresses for living people (Mark, Claire, Donnelly cousins) are deliberately omitted in line with normal genealogical practice.

How To Cite This Site

Garrigan, M. (2026). Greene Family Heritage [website]. Available at: https://greene.garrigan.me/ (Accessed: [date]).

All underlying data is in data/family.json on GitHub — open the file to see every person, event, relationship and source citation in machine-readable form.