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Scotland / Re: Travel to France
« on: Monday 05 January 26 22:31 GMT (UK)  »
I have never heard of any direct ferry service from Scotland to France. I rather think your ancestor would have travelled down by train to Dover or one of the other Channel ports and crossed to France there.

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Tyrone / Re: Coast Guard Station
« on: Friday 02 January 26 05:49 GMT (UK)  »
Co. Tyrone is landlocked so unlikely to have any Coastguard stations. There was one at Ballycotton in Co. Cork. I suspect that’s the location being referred to.

https://coastguardsofyesteryear.org/search.php?stext=Ballycotton&search=Search&method=OR&stype=forums&forum_id=0&datelimit=0&fields=2&sort=datestamp&order=0&chars=50

Still going strong today:

https://www.facebook.com/p/Ballycotton-Coast-Guard-100064700977395/

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20824034/ballycotton-county-cork

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Antrim / Re: sectarian violence in the Belfast Hills
« on: Thursday 01 January 26 13:55 GMT (UK)  »
PRONI has a lot of papers on the United Irishmen in and around Co. Antrim. Search the PRONI e-catalogue to find them. An example is T3541/5/2 which is the autobiography of John Caldwell jr who describes his involvement in the 1798 uprising in the Ballymoney area. He was eventually apprehended and like many of the middle ranking officers, was offered the choice of facing trial for treason (penalty for which was often hanging) or being banished from the Kingdom for life. Like most, he sensibly chose banishment and, after many delays, sailed for America. It’s a lengthy document.


For most of PRONI’s records you need to go in person and look them up but a few are on-line. An example is this (D2095/178) at PRONI which is the text of a talk, first given in the 1920s I believe, about The “Hearts of Steel” in the Larne area in the late 1700s.

https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/ResultDetails.aspx

Another is the “Black Book of the Rebellion of the North of Ireland” (D272/1) which can be downloaded free.

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Monaghan / Re: need help please with a long standing brickwall
« on: Thursday 01 January 26 09:27 GMT (UK)  »
Carrickmacross is in the RC parish of Magheross. Unfortunately its baptism records don’t start till 1858, so if that’s where your ancestors were baptised, no records exist.

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Antrim / Re: sectarian violence in the Belfast Hills
« on: Wednesday 31 December 25 19:24 GMT (UK)  »

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Thanks. I wasn't aware of the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland for Antrim which is available to purchase online.

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If you live near Belfast, PRONI (the public record office) has a complete set of the OS memoirs, in their main reading room, which you can consult free.

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The Common Room / Re: Census and the homeless
« on: Wednesday 24 December 25 20:50 GMT (UK)  »
In April 2011 I was working in NW Scotland. I met 3 people who I know were not included in that year’s census. 2 were living in a Campervan and the third was living on a nearby small island which the authorities perhaps assumed was uninhabited, but certainly didn’t send any forms to.  So even in modern times there will be many missing from the census. That’s before we consider the behaviour of folk who might want to be excluded from it for whatever reason, whose efforts to be overlooked might have been more determined.

Back in the 1800s it would have been even easier to be overlooked, excluded, or simply to give completely false details.

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Roxburghshire / Re: Brick Wall - Henderson, Roxburghshire
« on: Tuesday 23 December 25 11:44 GMT (UK)  »
I read it as "Ross Burrh" which, when you say it quickly, is pretty close to Roxburgh.

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Galway / Re: Joyce family in Tuam Looking for births of Michael c1856 and Annie c1868
« on: Sunday 21 December 25 03:44 GMT (UK)  »
In Ireland the term herd usually means someone who looks after a farm on behalf of the owner. If you look at the outoffices return for the 1911 census of Ballina townland you will see that John’s property included a cow house, piggery, fowl house, barn & shed. A simple shepherd doesn’t normally need all those. John lived on a farm but probably wasn’t himself the tenant farmer. See final post on this query about the term:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=442833.9

If you look at Ballina on Griffiths Valuation (in parish of Killererin) you will see that nearly all the properties there were farms, plus there was one herd’s house with offices and 56 acres of land. Someone who is simply a shepherd doesn't normally have 56 acres of land.

A similar definition here:

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2056842496/herds-house

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with address
« on: Friday 19 December 25 16:56 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Leon47 on Friday 19 December 25 16:25 GMT (UK)

The above link also suggests watching a help video, which I'll do. Otherwise, how do I get the information that you suggest is available?

The records themselves are in PRONI on microfilm. You either have to go in and search them yourself or pay someone else to do that for you.

For professional researchers in Ulster, try the Society of Genealogists:   
http://sgni.net/

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