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Antrim / Re: Marriage: McCormick-Darragh
« on: Sunday 10 September 17 12:38 BST (UK)  »
My great great grandfather was John McCormick B c 1839 who married Mary Jane Laverty (b1839)
They lived in Culfeighton area so I hope that we are linked. Do get in touch if that is the case.
Their children, as far as I know, were mary, Patrick, Jane, Daniel, Henry, Patrick & Margaret
Look forward to hearing from you

Lynne

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Ireland / Re: Sherrard
« on: Monday 24 June 13 11:24 BST (UK)  »
Lynette
Thanks for getting back to me - My James died in 1907 in the Ballycastle area. He had 10 children listed on the earlier posting. If you can't access the earlier posting let me know & I'll send it again. I think his parents names from his marriage certificate were Thomas & Jane but the writing isn't clear.
Let me know if you think it is the same family. I haven't got any info about Jame's siblings unfortunately but I do know he came from Limavady
Thanks
Lynne

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Ireland / Re: Sherrard
« on: Tuesday 01 May 12 08:15 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your kind offer - would love to have a copy. It would be interesting if we found that our relatives were related.

Kind regards

Lynne

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Ireland / Re: Sherrard/McCormick/Laverty
« on: Friday 23 September 11 09:11 BST (UK)  »
Mathew Sherrard's birth certificate arrived yesterday which confirmed that his parents were my great grandparents James & Mary Sherrard (McCormick). James & Mary had 10 Children - Mary b 1884, James b 1886, Lizzie b 1887, John b 1888, Robert b 1892, William b 1894, Matthew b 1896, Ellen (Nellie) b 1898, Daniel b 1900 & Ernest b 1904. Have found John in 1911 as a servant in the house of Thomas Parker 16 Ballyutoag. The only Elizabeth I can find in 1911 is a servant in Clifton Antrim but she was born in derry. This might be correct if James & his wife went back to his family briefly at this time but probably unlikely so Elizabeth may have married by 1911.

Will keep looking but any contributions gratefull received

Thanks again or your help

Lynne

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Ireland / Re: Sherrard
« on: Wednesday 14 September 11 10:55 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your work on this

The 1911 Mary Sherrard in Cromac is my grandmother

The parents in the 1901 Sherred census look right & the Fair Head is just down the road from Bonamargy & the Mary  aged 49 in the 1911 census is a widow so that too ties in as did the statement that she couldn't write as she made a mark on her marriage entry.

The thing which still puzzles me is the entry as Roman Catholics as my grandmothers entry in 1911 census says Church of Ireland & my great grandparents got married in an Episcopal Church in Scotland. If my great grandmother was Roman Catholic & they brought up the children as Catholics I would have thought that they would have got married in a cathlolic church but perhaps although James was happy to marry a catholic he didn't convert himself & then for some reason my grandmother changed faith.The plot thickens!!
If we could show that Matthew & Daniel's mother was Mary Sherrard (McCormick) then that would clinch it - assume the only way to do this is for me to order a birth certificate for one of them
Thanks again

Lynne

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Ireland / Re: Sherrard
« on: Wednesday 14 September 11 09:27 BST (UK)  »
My grandmothers birth certificate just shows James living in Newtown Limavady with no other address. I couldn't in the family in the 1901 census & could only find my grandmother Mary Sherrard in the 1911 census working as a servant in Belfast but I know that James died in 1907 in Ballycastle area

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Ireland / Re: Sherrard
« on: Wednesday 14 September 11 09:12 BST (UK)  »
Sorry for any confusion.
The writing on James's marriage certiicate is difficult to read but it looks like his parents were Thomas and Jane & it looks as if Jane's maiden name was also Sherrard so assume they might have been cousins

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Argyllshire / Sherrard/McCormick/Laverty
« on: Wednesday 14 September 11 08:55 BST (UK)  »
I started a few months ago trying to trace my Sherrard family in the Ballycastle area as my grandmother Mary Sherrard was born in Bonamargy in 1884. My great grandparents were James Sherrard b 1862 and Mary McCormick b 1863. Mary McCormick's parents were John McCormick ,who was a collier, and Mary Jane Laverty. Mary McCormick was working as a domestic servant in Campbeltown in 1883 where she married James Sherrard (b 1862) in the Episcopal church there. They were living in Lochend Street. A year later their daughter was born in Bonamargy as James address was then Limavady I assume that Mary McCormick's family were living in Bonamargy near Ballycastle & that Mary had gone back to her parents house for the birth of her daughter. I'm not sure why my great grandparents got married in Scotland
If anyone can shed any further light on my family would love to hear from them.
Thanks

Lynne

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Ireland / Sherrard
« on: Wednesday 14 September 11 08:46 BST (UK)  »
I started a few months ago trying to trace my Sherrard family in the Ballycastle area as my grandmother Mary Sherrard was born in Bonamargy in 1884. It now seems that the Sherrard connection is in Limavady but my great grandmother Mary McCormick came from the Ballycastle area. Mary McCormick was born in 1863. Her parents were John McCormick ,who was a collier, and Mary Jane Laverty. Mary McCormick was working as a domestic servant in Campbeltown in 1883 where she married James Sherrard (b 1862) in the Episcopal church there. A year later their daughter was born in Bonamargy.
If anyone can shed any further light on my family would love to hear from them.
Thanks

Lynne

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