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thankyou so much for these two leads i assure you they are truly appreciated and i will be following up one of them that could be interesting fingers crossed.         regards Hartley James Connelly.

Hi barbara
                 what a great piece of advice from you for which i thank you.In response to the points raised i have managed to establish this about .on the 28th/12/1907 aged 25 years. johns son whos name was samuel connelly was admitted to the govan poorhouse.in 1906 both georgina and his father john connelly were both dead.georgina connelly maiden name mac kenzie had a father whom i understand was a soldier and his name was george mackenzie, hence i assume the daughter being called georgina.it would appear that john died and georgina went on to marry a donald simpson.i have georginas death certificate and she died in inverness aged 56 in 1906 so from that i deduce georgina was born in 1850.in 1889 on the 8th  of november at saint margarets church john connellys so william connelly aged 23 in kinning park glasgow married a catherine flannagan aged 19.with regard to john connelly leaving ireland around 1820 as a young man with his father nicholas they settled  initially in roxburghshire and this is where i think he met georgina.his father nicholas met a bridget cairns in roxburghshire and married her however i do not think they lived long.any idea where i go from here would be much appreciated ,  regards ballymacnab

Hello P.M.
             Firstly let me thank you for you response it is i assure you appreciated as this is a difficult one.What i do know as fact   i have my gt grandmothers Marjorie coyles marriage register certificate is that she was married  on the 8th of january 1866 at the roman catholic cathedral in gt clyde st  glasgow at the age of 19 years to a pATRICK O'Flannagan who was 23 years of age who came from armagh.I do not know if marjorie coyles parents left donegal  with her to come to glasgow with her.This period of her birth was a very traumatic time as she was born in the middle of the famine period.The reason why i know marjorie coyle was born in a place called roughpark in donegal is that on the 5th/07/1907 marjorie applied for parish poor relief in glasgow and she told the assistant inspector for poor relief that she was 58 years old and that she had no means and that she was the daughter of hugh coyle  a drain maker (whatever that is ) and her mother was rossana freel from donegal. the inspector wrote down  rushpark donegal however as there is no rushpark in donegal he missunderstood her and what she really said was roughpark donegal as being her place of birth, That still leaves me with the problem as to where she was born.There is a (hugh coyle) living in rathmelton in church st aughnish 64 kilmacrenan donegal  in the griffith valuation .  and the immediate lessor is a mary coyle . i have a hunch that this may be  my gt grandmothers marjorie coyles father (Hugh Coyle).It would be wonderful if i could establish that .In the meant that?.thanks so much, ballymacnab

Hello
        My gt grandfather left ireland in the early 1800s and settled somewhere in roxburghshire.they were called farmers? .i am of the view on the scant information i have is that they may have lived in loughinisland county down.Nicholas wife i presume died as she never came to scotland with him they later left roxburghshire and went on to edinburgh and glasgow. the only tangible factual information i have is the father and son name connection of (nicholas and john  connelly) where else could i look wherby i can use this name connection  ?  i do know that nicholas went on to marry a roxburghshire girl called georgina mac kenzie .any thoughts on where i could go from here would be truly appreciated.  regards Hartley James Connelly.

Hello there.
                   My gt grandmother was  marjorie coyle born in 1847 in roughpark donegal, her father was a hugh coyle and her mother was rossana coyle (maiden name Freel.Marjory  moved to glasgow at a very early age and went on to marry a patrick flannagan at the roman catholic cathedral in gt clyde st in 1866  patrick originated from armagh, they lived i kinning park and king st and stockwell st in glasgow. i visited the area a month ago and went to the mitchell where i found the poor law records for marjory coyle and that is how i found out that she was from roughpark donegal.i am now so keen to find any shred of information on marjory or her parents in donegal, where do i look and has any one any information on this family , regards  .Hartley James Connelly.

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