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Dublin / Re: Ball Family
« on: Sunday 26 January 25 11:27 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning Loubeedo23

Welcome to Rootschat.
When you have made three postings you will be able to message any of the members who have posted. I have had great assistance with my family from Dathai but I see from his status that he has not been on Rootschat since 2022.
Good luck with your search.

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Dublin / Re: Loughlinstown Workhouse
« on: Thursday 29 February 24 13:38 GMT (UK)  »
Wexflyer what wonderful posts. I have not looked in here for a long time and was delighted to see your posts just now.
Catherine Carr (Kate) was my grand aunt. Although she and her sisters were very close to my mother her four children born out of wedlock and who their fathers were was never discussed. James born 1905 sadly died soon after birth and the three remaining children were kept by Kate. In those days that was an amazing thing as church and peer pressure must have been huge.
I have checked all baptism records and the fathers were not named on any cert. The family was Roman Catholic and lived in Kingstown.
Thank you for clarifying the role of nuns in the workhouse.
William never knew his father's name and there is a blank in that space on William's marriage cert.
Kate is listed on the 1911 census with her father and brother at the family cottage but I don't know where the two children were staying.
Thank you for the information for where Kate was living in 1904 Bray ( I never knew that).
Kate would have been the 20 year old listed on the records in 1901. She was born in 1881.
You have the correct birth record 7 Nov 1881 father Christopher.
Some of William's grandchildren have done DNA tests and have found potential leads to probable father.
I must return to rechecking my info on Kate. 

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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: James Carr
« on: Tuesday 14 November 23 10:59 GMT (UK)  »
Over the years I have found this further information - James Carr  was born Abt. 1818 in Ireland. He married Ellen Carroll on 04 Feb 1839 in St.Michael's Church in Dún Laoghaire address given as Glenageary. Ellen Carroll (daughter of John and Ellen)was born 14 August 1818 at Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire).
Their son Thomas born 15 Dec 1839, Glenageary.

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Dublin / Re: Dublin employee records of London and Northern Railways
« on: Sunday 06 August 23 12:27 BST (UK)  »
Hello again DevonPaddy B

Just as I was posting the reply above a friend advised that in 1923 the London and North Western Railway Company, along with other smaller companies, amalgamated to form the LMS, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
So if your GGF was working after 1923 he would be LMS staff becoming British Railways in 1948.

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Dublin / Re: Dublin employee records of London and Northern Railways
« on: Sunday 06 August 23 12:11 BST (UK)  »
Hello DevonPaddy B

Where did you discover that you GGF Peter Byrne was an employee of the London and North Western Railway Company?. Do you have the dates when he was a clerk and maybe what office location he worked in?. Sometimes employment records would be archived for notable engineers, maybe directors, company board members but there were probably many clerks and I venture that not many records were kept of their labours.
The Irish Railway Record Society have a premises at the side of Heuston Station in Dublin and used to have a Library night on a Tuesday when volunteers would aid the general public in searching records. I read in their June 2023 Journal that Rhona Murray , Senior Content Acquisition Manager at Ancestry's Dublin office in Sir John Rogerston's Quay is in the process of digitising railway staff records at IRRS and they will eventually be available on Ancestry.
Have a look at the IRRS site   https://irrs.ie/

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Dublin / Richard McGuirk son Peter McGuirk 1865
« on: Sunday 06 August 23 09:19 BST (UK)  »
I have been many years trying to unravel the McGuirk family.
I have a completed post on the Wicklow thread about Peter McGuirk Derrylossery
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=575867.msg4502665#msg4502665

In the Glendalough in the 1911 census topic I have discussed Peter and his father Richard McGuirk
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=697289.msg7302500#msg7302500

Peter McGuirk 1831 to 1868 was a soldier in the 84th regiment of foot (details given to me by a rootschatter). He was in the 1851 census as being at the East India Co Depot Warley Barracks. I found his grave at Deansgrange Cemetery Dublin date of death 4 August 1868.

Now there is something that is intriguing me. On the Irish Genealogy site I found a birth of a boy Richard at Dún Laoghaire Hospital on 17 October 1865. Father listed as Peter (abroad) and mother Mary Farrell. I am assuming that this Peter is my Peter 1831-1868!!

I cannot find a death for this young Richard (1865) or for the wife Mary McGuirk nee Farrell. I also can't find a marriage for Peter McGuirk and said Mary Farrell.

Did young Richard live? Where else could I look?


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Europe / Re: Czech Republic - Hirsch Friedrich
« on: Saturday 06 May 23 14:30 BST (UK)  »
Afternoon fiddlerslass. Just a quick update to tell you that we went to Ivanovice last week. A tiny town a quick train ride from Vienna via Bruno. I hadn't really done any huge further research but it was moving for my husband to be in his grandfather's birth town. House 21 is gone and replaced by a car park but, we got a feeling of what the houses must have looked like by examining older premises on the same road. The graveyard really is a sad site but again an emotional time. The vegetation is so high and land boggy so we didn't go too far in to the stones. While in Vienna we went to the church where Ludwig (Israel) was married and were treated to an amazing service conducted in English for a packed Negro community. Wonderful uplifting drumming and singing. The church is beautiful. We have a lot of research and work to do and it will give us excuses to return to Ivanovice and Bruno.

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Dublin / Re: James Conway, blacksmith, Kingstown, Co Dublin
« on: Wednesday 29 March 23 23:28 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Queenie for your reply.
Yes i looked at the National Library of Ireland parish records. I seem to have made a hash of this. I will have to look for Mary Anne's birth again! I see the two records for Elizabeth and the one for Richard on 17 June 1855.The record at Deansgrange Cemetery for Mary Anne's death gives the date as 8th January 1892 and her age as 40
When I looked at the 1901 census of Ireland online I saw William living with Richard and Elizabeth at 62 Mulgrave St. Dún Laoghaire so again assumed they were the only ones. Not knowing about a possible Catherine I didn't look for her. I knew Mary Anne was married by 1901.
Up to now I had only looked at Mary Anne my Gt grandmother (maternal) and her brother Richard known as Uncle Dick who stepped up when Mary Anne was widowed and family lore is he was always on hand with financial assistance for my mother's family. Her father Michael (Mary Anne's son) died at 45 years leaving seven children. Back to the drawing board and my scribbled notes.

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Dublin / Re: James Conway, blacksmith, Kingstown, Co Dublin
« on: Wednesday 29 March 23 20:06 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Queenie for your reply. I got the date of birth for Mary Anne from the Roman Catholic parish records for kingstown. Mary Anne had two brothers and one sister William born about 1843, Richard born about 1858 and Elizabeth born about 1860 ( I deducted their age of death from the date they died to get those possible birth dates). The records at Deansgrange cemetery are usually pretty accurate. I cannot remember where I got the name Teresa (for the mother) it is in my handwritten notes!!
The marriage for 1839 could be a possibility and Catherine the child could have died as she is not on the census forms.
James Conway is not marked deceased on the marriage record of Mary Anne and Michael Jordan  in 1875 so I am assuming he died later. I know I assume too much !!!

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