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Antrim / Re: Missing my g-grandmother Mary Ann McNea
« on: Wednesday 22 September 10 20:47 BST (UK)  »
Susan

Many thanks for the information it has filled some gaps. It helps to establish Mary Ann's position in the family history.

Oddly, although in my parent's generation there were many jokes about our 'Irish' heritage, particularly a tendency to improve an already good story, Mary Ann, my father's grandmother was described as a Scot. I was therefore surprised to discover from the 1901 Census that she was from Belfast. The confusion was further emphasised because my grandmother's sister married an Irish schoolmaster whose family originally came from Waterford. Of course, no genetic connection, although the sisters were very close and he did have a great influence on my parent's generation.

Fairly obviously Mary Ann McNea from Ulster would have been what in the US would be described as Scot-Irish and the Scot part came down to my generation, but not the Irish.

Thanks again, Mick


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Antrim / Re: Missing my g-grandmother Mary Ann McNea
« on: Wednesday 22 September 10 08:24 BST (UK)  »
AlisonT

Glad to have been of help. My sources were a genealogical chart prepared in1970 by Bodil Fryd and her father that covers the Danish Family back to 1670. My great-aunt Clarice provided Bodil with the much of the information regarding her siblings. This was confirmed where it directly related to my line of descent by my Aunt Madge. I put it all aside for about 20 years as I was working abroad.

My children insisted that I should dig further as the family was awash with various legends and tall stories, this had much to do, according to my father, with our 'Irish side' and the Irish love of a good yarn. Some tales I have discovered to be founded on fact!

The increased access to digitised information has helped as I have been able to access Danish records as well as the Census information up to 1911. Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths enabled me to verify much of my direct interest. For some reason I was aware that Frederick's wife was named Lavinia, but know little about any other descendants of Mary Ann other than Walter's descendants of which at my last estimate total only 16. One of Mary Ann's children emigrated to Canada where I had a very brief contact, through business, with the wife of one of his sons who had a typing agency.  I believe another emigrated to New Zealand just after or before WW1, but have been unable to verify this.



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Antrim / Re: Missing my g-grandmother Mary Ann McNea
« on: Tuesday 21 September 10 19:24 BST (UK)  »
Mary Ann McNea - I did post a summary but being new to the system did not hit the reply button, however we share the same g-grandmother along with many others; she had ten children!

Mary Ann was born in Belfast in 1847 and died in West Ham in 1925. She maried Carl Edward Fryd in Dublin where her first child Emil was born in 1870. Later they lived in Heaton Chapel, Cheshire where Carl Edward is listed as a Provision Merchant and Agent. Later she lived in Prittlewell at 'Elsinore' in Hamlet Court Road, Now part of Southend on Sea. Her other children were Wilhelmina 1872, Edward 1873, Blanche 1874, Frederick 1876, Walter 1878 - 1956, Clarice 1880, Alex 1883, Herbert 1884, Ernest 1887. Carl Edward Fryd died in 1891.

I would be interested in any information relating to Mary Ann's parents or siblings.

I hope this is of help
Mickshobby


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