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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: AnneMarie Brear on Tuesday 01 July 08 04:46 BST (UK)
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Hello.
I'm Anne from Australia. I'm researching my ancestors, Brear, Kittrick, Nicholls and Gay. The Brear line are from Wragby and mostly coal miners. The Kittrick and Nicholls side is manily Irish and I've come to a grinding halt on those two lines.
The Gay line was orginally from Gloucestershire.
There are so many posts to read, so I'd better get started.
Best wishes,
Anne
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Welcome to rootschat Anne.
Can I suggest that you check and enter your surnames in the surname interests table?
The link is via "Your Surname Interests" found at the foot of every page
David
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Hello David.
Thank you for letting me know about the surname list. I'll do that.
Anne.~
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Hi Anne
Welcome to Rootchat! Do you have any idea where in Ireland your Kittricks and Nicholls come from? I have looked up the Birth Index of Ireland which says Kittrick (Kitterick) was not a common name (6 births of that surname in 1890 - all from Co. Mayo). Nicholls is more common, but mainly from Antrim and Derry. Also, if you know what religion they might have been, it might help.
Jaylay
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Hello and thank you for your help.
I feel so clueless but I don't know of their religion at all. I know that both my parents are Church Of England religion.
I was told that there is a possibility that Kittrick might have been McKittrick at one time and the Mc was dropped somewhere in the past, but how long ago, know one knows. I do know that all the Kittricks were Kittrick without the Mc since 1900. The spelling could also have changed over the years too. Kittrick, Kitterick, Ketterick, etc. Which makes it even harder to pinpoint my ancestors with accuracy. It's slowly sending me mad. :o)
Thanks again.!
Anne.~
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Hi Anne
I wouldn't be so concerned about the variations in spelling - there are lots of spelling variations of a lot of Irish surnames, largely due to the way the priest or whoever filled out the registry in the church at the time of a baptism, marriage or death. I have Leyden in my tree, which within three generations, has changed from Leadon, to Layden, to Leydon, to Leyden! Even my own (considerably more recent!) baptism cert gives my mother's name wrongly! It's more important to know the part of Ireland they might have come from. Have you tried, as a starting point, www.familysearch.org, just keying in Kittrick or Nicholls as a surname and Ireland as a country, and seeing what comes up?
Jaylay