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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: John Darragh Killowen Coleraine
« on: Thursday 25 July 19 15:57 BST (UK)  »
Just a piece of information. The John Darragh from the Loughan is not the same John Darragh (My Gt Grandfather ) who was from Killowen. I don't know if they were related but I have not found a connection.

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Armed Forces / Re: Waterloo ancestors
« on: Friday 13 April 18 19:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi, my 3xGt grandfather DAVID SIMPSON was at Waterloo and the person I believe to be my relative
was in Bull's Troop but as yet I have no confirmation that this is the right person.

As you can read from my post my information is from a book written by T H Mullin which gives me info on my 4xGt Grandfather who was also David Simpson and also all the generations to the present  date.

I would be very interested if any further info comes to light.

Sorry I can not add anything further.

Regards.




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Renfrewshire / Re: Census Look-up Please CHARLES POLLOCK
« on: Tuesday 25 November 14 21:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Anne

I'm afraid, with respect, I cannot agree with you that Sarah Margaret made up her fathers' name. Firstly I can't see why in her first marriage ( Aged 15) she would not acknowledge a father other than that his family were still alive in the area or perhaps even at that age she did not know his name.
Secondly where she acknowledges him as Charles in her second marriage she is aged 53 and he is probable dead.(even  if the death, in 1895, of the person I THINK is the Charles  is incorrect). Also she is not a child looking for a father at that stage.
Lastly in the Griffith valuation for the Townland of Ballyvennox in 1859 has a CHARLES renting ground from a Thomas King (the name of the father of David King, father of Sarah Margaret's older half sister).
One other thing is that Ballyvennox is very close to Adverness where S M lived aged 15.
This is all very complicated but for these reasons I am inclined to believe Sarah M's father was a Charles and not only that she said in her second marriage cert  he was not only Charles but Charles Pollock.

Without further information I will probably never be absolutely sure but I do thank you for your interest and input.

Doire.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Census Look-up Please CHARLES POLLOCK
« on: Sunday 23 November 14 23:40 GMT (UK)  »
I have been to the church in Macosquin where the marriage took place and I have seen the marriage register. On it it gave her age as 15. There was no fathers' name given. Sarah Margaret was widowed in 1914 and re-married in 1923. In this marriage cert she names her father as CHARLES. Just this past week I have received a copy of the death of the Charles I think is her father. He died in Paisley in 1895. Perhaps this is why she felt she could now name him in 1923.

D.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Census Look-up Please CHARLES POLLOCK
« on: Sunday 23 November 14 21:05 GMT (UK)  »
Perhaps a check of Scotlands' 1871/1881/1891 censes for Sarah Pollock Walton, Mary E (daughter) and possibly Sarah Margaret (daughter) in the first two censes. Mary's father David King never married but went to Scotland and was there until at least 1915 so perhaps that is why Mary was able to say her parents were from Scotland. ????
Another tit bit, S M (McSheffrey) says in 1911 N Ireland censes that she was born in Co Londonderry.

Thanks everyone
Doire.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Census Look-up Please CHARLES POLLOCK
« on: Saturday 22 November 14 18:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

The reason for believing Sara Pollock Walton was in Scotland at that time is the info on her first daughter Mary E' marriage cert c1898/99 which stated she came from Scotland and so did her parents.

Doire

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Renfrewshire / Re: Census Look-up Please CHARLES POLLOCK
« on: Saturday 22 November 14 11:48 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all so much for the info.
Firstly according to Charles death cert he was born 1831.
All the other census info you have sent me are of the correct family. Thanks.

Now the story about Sarah Pollock Walton is that she had a child to Charles in 1870.... My gt grandmother Sarah Margaret Pollock, whose birth I cannot find in Ireland. So any help there would be great. (S M was married aged 15 in 1885 to James McSheffrey in Coleraine)
Sarah Pollock also had another child to a David King in 1864 .... Mary E. She went to America and married a Wm Kenfoyle. When Sarah Margaret's son emigrated to America he went to "his uncle Wm Kenfoyle" This is where I found Sarah Pollock Walton's name (on their Marriage cert) as being Mary E's mother although in Mary's birth cert she was just Sara Pollock. So in actual fact the two lots of Pollocks  are connected by this illegitimate  child Sarah Margaret but I also feel Charles and Sarah had some kind of family connection. They were both from the same wee clachan near Coleraine in N Ireland as was David King. All very complicated eh!

I have no access to Scotlands People so no I have not searched there.

Hope all this makes  sense and if so any further help would be greatly appreciated.

Doire

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Renfrewshire / Census Look-up Please CHARLES POLLOCK
« on: Wednesday 19 November 14 21:55 GMT (UK)  »
Would someone please look-up a Charles Pollock m  Catherine McKirgan in the 1871/81/91 census for Paisley. I know Charles died in 1895 in Paisley South Workhouse. Catherine was already dead by then.
Also I am looking for Sarah Pollock Walton. That is all I know about her. Her maiden name was Pollock (not the same as the Pollock above) so I am assuming she married someone named Walton. Again she was in the Paisley/Renfrewshire area around late 1800's, 1890-1900. I think she was originally from Ireland.

Thank you for any help you can give.
D.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: John Darragh Killowen Coleraine
« on: Saturday 24 November 12 18:33 GMT (UK)  »
Moving on a step..... I have now found John Darragh's birth in1836 to Joseph Dorrock and Catherine Campbell. Their first children appear c1830 but I can find no record for either JOSEPH or CATHERINE before that. There is a Joseph in Killowen in 1831 census but nothing further. Catherine's death was in 1844 but I have no death record for Joseph. Records before this are hard to come by. I have looked the C of I records for Killowen where all the children were baptised but nothing. It would appear Joseph married again in 1845 to Mary McIntyre. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

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