So, perhaps mistakenly, great-grandfather James lists his father as Thomas on his 1874 marriage cert to Mary Hagney (also, mistakenly listed as Mary Hegarty ... more on that below).
Because of this, ancestry.com and similar sites suggest that James's father is Thomas McCallion who marries Mary Patton and lives in nearby Killygordon.
The issue there is the dates are all wrong for this to be possible.
Perhaps the best evidence against this is here:
So very unlikely that Thomas & Mary are having children at the same time as their son.
As for Mary Hagney, it is clear that she is recorded as Hegarty on the civil records, both marriage and birth. But, as Paul puts it best:
" I also checked their baptismal certs which are done by the church and its always Hagney. What you have to understand is that Mary came from an Irish speaking area (Falcarragh) where English was spoken very little and when she came to Lifford it was a garrison town and any speaking of Irish was punished by the English authorities . Mary had a brother Daniel and his grandson Michael Hagney still lives in Falcarragh but the rest of the family emigrated. Hagney was not a name in the Clonleigh parish where Hegarty was so when someone like Mary who could not write went to register the birth the official would fill in what they thought was the surname."
Thanks Paul!
Lingering question ... is Thomas McCallion of Killygordon related somehow?
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