Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Pheno

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 257
1
The Common Room / Re: When do you have enough information?
« on: Thursday 11 September 25 12:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Kiltaglassan on Thursday 11 September 25 09:07 BST (UK)

Quote
He was born in Queenstown which is now Cork, in 1840.

Queenstown is now Cobh.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6934508#map=12/51.8659/-8.3342

Apologies for hijacking this thread but a quick question about this.  The earliest census info I have about my 3x great grandfather is the 1841 census in which it states he was 40 years old and born Ireland.  Similar for 1851 & 1861.  In 1871, the last before death, it says Ireland - Cork. Given the interchange between Cork/Queenstown, is his birth likely to have been actually in Cork or just County Cork?

Thanks, Pheno

2
The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Message Boards
« on: Sunday 24 August 25 08:05 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jonwarrn on Saturday 23 August 25 21:52 BST (UK)
Quote from: dublin1850 on Friday 22 August 25 19:57 BST (UK)
There are country specific boards.
Here's England: https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.britisles.england

Exactly, you don't have to look at any American boards at all.
You can make your preferred boards your "favourites"
And then go straight to them, and see them, in order of latest post, this would be the link
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/favorites/boards

Of course the volume of traffic on those boards is greatly reduced. Other forums which once flourished are now extinct or virtually moribund.
I don't suppose that even Rootschat has the number of queries and posts that it had, say, ten years ago.

There are some really good people helping on the ancestry boards, as there are everywhere.

Are you saying that the Message Boards have been updated in the recent past.  As I said I haven't been on for ages but I didn't mean the boards were American, just that the enquiries posted there were mostly of an American nature - very rarely a British query.  However, if things have changed then I will take another look.

Pheno

3
The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Message Boards
« on: Wednesday 20 August 25 07:46 BST (UK)  »
I have used them for years but virtually given up now - nearly every query relates to the US in my experience.

Pheno

4
The Common Room / Re: Starting a tree with not much info
« on: Friday 15 August 25 18:34 BST (UK)  »
Were your parents married.  If so the marriage certificate is the way to go as it should give you his father's name and occupation which could narrow down the search if a common name.

You will just have to keep going backwards, certificate after certificate until you hit somebody in either the 1939 register or the 1921 census.

Assuming we are talking England here.

Pheno

5
The Common Room / Re: Baptism entry.
« on: Sunday 03 August 25 12:31 BST (UK)  »
It generally implies that the baby was poorly and not expected to survive so was baptised shortly after birth at home.  However it did survive at least long enough to attend church, where it couldn't be baptised again so was noted as having been brought to the church.

Pheno

6
Sussex / Re: Children of Albion Hill area, Brighton, 1920s
« on: Tuesday 29 July 25 11:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi, you might like to post this photo on the Facebook site: Brighton-Past.  It is a local history site which does exactly this kind of thing - digs into the background of old photos posted on the site and see if they can determine exactly where and when they were taken and identify any of the people.

They contacted me cos they had a picture of a place in that similar area of Brighton and had identified it and then presumably searched genealogical sites and discovered that the property was mentioned in my family tree details.  It was of my husband's great uncle and family and he was glad to have a copy.

Pheno

7
Dorset / Re: Missing marriage of Mary Bown and William McGhee
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 16:38 BST (UK)  »
Ok thanks will go down that route.

I know they might not have married but both their names are so easily misspelt or mistranscribed that I feel it must be there somewhere.

Pheno

8
Dorset / Re: Missing marriage of Mary Bown and William McGhee
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 16:32 BST (UK)  »
There is a death for a 57 year old William McGhee in Portsmouth Jun 1910 which I assume is him.

In 1891 he is stated as Royal Navy retired and born Ireland.

Pheno

9
Dorset / Missing marriage of Mary Bown and William McGhee
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 12:37 BST (UK)  »
I'm all out of name variations for both of the above so wondered if someone else could spot this marriage.  I would expect it to be 1885-1890 probably in Dorset, but could possibly be Hampshire.

They are in the 1901 census with 3 McGhee children viz. William John b. 1890, Daisy 1892 & Charles 1893 all born Portsmouth.

Thanks, Pheno

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 257