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 - shanreagh

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 323
1
Ireland / Re: Samuel Cowan
« on: Yesterday at 08:04 »
>>>Hi looking for some help traced back to a Samuel Cowan he is the father of Mary Cowan and she was married to Hugh Boyd I have found out Mary was born 1834 not sure where but she was married in Northern Ireland<<<<<

Mary Cowan Boyd married on 1/1/1852 so she was about 18 when she married. 
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGF9-DJK?lang=en


 

2
New Zealand / Re: LONGACRE - long acre, New Zealand
« on: Monday 15 September 25 23:24 BST (UK)  »
Looking again I feel that it is around Whanganui.  It may not be on the RHS going from Sanson but the LHS has pine trees in the light soiled dune country to the west.  The second idea is that it is on one of the back roads east  or north of Whanganui.  Even accessing the Parapara.

3
New Zealand / Re: LONGACRE - long acre, New Zealand
« on: Sunday 14 September 25 23:52 BST (UK)  »
To me it looks like a farm on land around Te Aroha looking towards Mt Te Aroha

or

Mt Tauhara near Taupo

and yet

the sidings/house/vegetation looks like land around Whanganui, on the right coming into Whanganui from Sanson etc but not sure what the hill/mountain might be in the background

4
Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Unidentified country house
« on: Wednesday 03 September 25 22:37 BST (UK)  »
Trish18 with her fantastic knowledge strikes again, in the best way possible.....and with more photgraphs.

Thanks Trish18 for your work.  It is appreciated. I'm in NZ and am always pleased when the sleuths have a successful 'sleuth'.

5
Family History Beginners Board / Re: Searching about Marianna O'Mally
« on: Monday 01 September 25 07:17 BST (UK)  »
Valaki üzenetét, megkaptam, csak "az éteren át" :): 1819 , a születési dátum... :)
Üdv Mindenkinek. Marianna

So is the date of birth 1819 and not 1895?  Or have the numbers been transposed and the date of birth is 1891 in Dublin?

6
If William Arthur's names are not from his parents etc it may be that the Arthur is from the Duke Of Wellington. A serving soldier would be aware of his commander.  The DoW was reputed to have been born in Dublin and perhaps James Bennie/nney was also from there. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington

There are Berney/Beirney families from Ireland.

7
Although you have said the pension docs do not show that the 94th/your ancestor was in Ireland the Wiki history has an enigmatic sentence

'It returned to Ireland in November 1834.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/94th_Regiment_of_Foot


8
Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Maiden name help
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 23:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Bowen was what I thought.

@Tickettyboo
It was a birth certificate of Mary's daughter in 1887.
Mary was married to William Matthews. They had their first child in either 1883 or 1884.
Mary was born approx 1863, possibly in Ireland. I've not found a UK marriage so maybe they were married in Ireland.

If you would like us to search further then it would be good to have further info from you. 

In the UK many families named their children according to a pattern.  In Ireland this is the naming pattern. Not saying that the Irish  would slavishly adopt this but it can give clues.

From Mrs Google

'Traditional Irish naming conventions dictate that the first son is named after the father's father, the second son after the mother's father, and the third son after the father. For daughters, the first daughter is named after the mother's mother, the second daughter after the father's mother, and the third daughter after the mother. These patterns could be used to help trace family history, but parents might also use nicknames or name a child after a deceased sibling.
 
Typical Pattern for Children
First Son: Paternal grandfather (father's father)
Second Son: Maternal grandfather (mother's father)
Third Son: Father
First Daughter: Maternal grandmother (mother's mother)
Second Daughter: Paternal grandmother (father's mother)
Third Daughter: Mother'

So if you have the names of the children of the Matthews/Bowen marriage we might be able to help.

If you could list them in date order that would be great, pl include the names of any children who died.

9
Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Where Am I? No. 228 - Church
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 22:56 BST (UK)  »
Fantastic find. 

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 323