Family Tree Frog

  My maternal grandfather Tom McLoughlin at the end of the back row on the right 1912 This week is going to be a very short post indeed.  Normally I have quite a swag of material about each of my ancestors but this is where my McLoughlin stops as it were. I wanted to write today about Patrick McLoughlin's father Owen McLoughlin.  I wrote about Patrick back in May here. Patrick's death certificate says that his parents were Owen McLoughlin and Bridget Sweeney. On his marriage certificate it states that his father's name was Owen McLoughlin and that he was a labourer. The only birth I have been able to find to a Bridget Sweeney and a McLoughlin is a Patrick to a John McLaughlin and Bridget Sweeney in Templeboy, Sligo as per this blogpost here .  Now - the question is if this John is also known as Owen.   What do you think? Is it too big a leap? There's a bit of me that says let's go back to basics and remind ourselves of what the original research question wa...