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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Louth => Topic started by: GSearlym on Monday 11 May 15 00:14 BST (UK)
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My great aunt, Annie Kate Simmons married Walter Thomas Fitch in 1890 in Epping, Essex. They had four children, Arthur George 1891, Edgar Percy 1894, Reginald Alfred 1898, and Dorothy Kate 1901. Walter and his first wife Ellen had five children, Walter Thomas 1872, Mary M 1875, Richard Edward 1876, Frederick W 1879, Albert C 1880, and Ernest Paul 1881. Ellen died in 1883.
From the 1881 UK Census, we know that Ellen was born in 1853 in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland, but we do not have her maiden name. I've scoured the available digital resources (birth records etc.) and they all list her as "Ellen", but without a last name attached. If anyone here on RootsChat has information on this part of the Fitch family that might point in the right direction, or if someone might have a recommendation on how to find a birth record in Dundalk 1853 without a surname (good luck with that) I'd sure appreciate hearing from you.
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Do you have Walter and Ellens Marriage Cert?
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Send for one of her children's birth certificates, that will give you her maiden name
Margp
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If this is them have you his military record's
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQZD-D6Q
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This may be the marriage
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYSH-K48
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYS6-46P
Margp
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Possibly based at the Curragh Camp.
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Looking at his Army Records he was in Waterford, around the time of the marriage
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1st Quarter 1871
http://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/0dd52c8795480
just about fits in with them going to India in 1871 if right regiment.
see Postwar Service here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th_%28West_Essex%29_Regiment_of_Foot
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Link to ordering certs from Ireland
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=599538.0
i believe you can receive them by email if required.
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If you are applying to the GRO in Roscommon, be sure to order a research certificate, which is just a photocopy of the record and contains all the necessary detail, it costs €4.
Order it here by downloading the relevant marriage form (tick photocopy):
http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Apply-for-Certificates.aspx
Be sure to write somewhere on the form the names, the year (and quarter if applicable), the district, the volume number and the page number. Include your email address to receive it that way.
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Thank you, all! I had looked earlier for an Irish marriage, but didn't find it. I clearly wasn't persistent enough. I will look more thoroughly at each of your suggestions in the next few days. I'll post what I find out. Thank you so much!
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A colour sergeant's uniform 1870
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01fal (http://www.rootschat.com/links/01fal)
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son Richard ? 1911 a Roman Catholic, a Sergeant
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kildare/Kildare/Curragh_Military_Camp/545892/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002582801/
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Yes, that is indeed son Richard. Thanks for the link.
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I've ordered a birth certificate that will hopefully show Ellen's maiden name, which is narrowing in on "Power." Also, just found son Arthur Charles Fitch, in 1931, traveling back to the UK from South Africa, with two children, Hugh Power Fitch, and Elaine Joyce Fitch. That also points to "Power."
Thanks again, all.