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Antrim / Re: Alexander Mackey
« on: Wednesday 12 September 12 06:51 BST (UK)  »
Hello Magheragall. Are you the same person who emailed me some photos ? I am now starting to pad-out this Tree. I have found marriages for 6 of the sons, but can't find what happened to Albert Forde (Hinds) Mackey. Sarah's first born was William Thomas Carlisle 1862, he was a widower on the 1911 with his mother Sarah (Greenfield), but I can't locate any other record for him. I located one of the sons, Valentine born 1871. He went to USA, he was Valentine on the ships passenger list in 1892, but from then on he has the name James Valentine, at first I thought he was a different person, but have now located his marriage record where his parents are named as Alexander and Sarah. Do you know of any reason why he would take on another name.  Regards  Moya

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Antrim / Re: Alexander Mackey
« on: Monday 10 September 12 09:02 BST (UK)  »
I HAVE CRACKED IT !!!!  I have found three children born to Sarah Hinds in Knocknadona. 1864 Alexander, 1866 Frederick, 1867 Albert Forde. Obviously they have taken the name Mackey when Sarah married Alexander Mackey in 1868. I am assuming that they were all illegitimate as there is no father's name on the ancestry.com record. Moya

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Antrim / Re: Alexander Mackey
« on: Sunday 09 September 12 04:07 BST (UK)  »
Yes, Jeremiah was the son of Alexander and Sarah Mackey. I have found that Alexander Mackey (born 1864) did come from the Lisburn area. I got his service record in the RIC and he was signed up by an Inspector Fleury who was stationed Lisburn at that time in 1883. So all I've got to do now is find out who his mother was !! Alexander senior is described as a widower in 1868 when he married Sarah Hinds, but I can't find any deaths for a female Mackey after 1864 when Alexander was born and 1868 when his father married Sarah Hinds. The only thing I can't get my head around is the records of a Frederick Meekey ? born 1866 to Alexander and Sarah Hynds in Belfast and an Albert Ford Mackey born 1867 to same parents, Alexander described as a shoemaker, Belfast. What are the odds on two Alexanders marrying two Sarah Hinds ??

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Cork / Re: Castletown
« on: Sunday 02 September 12 01:48 BST (UK)  »
Hello Tara.  Looks like Oak Mount might be the right one. The family I am tracing are William and Lucy Roberts. William came from Lissangle Caheragh where his father Alexander farmed 34 acres. Lucy came from Dromcona? Caheragh. Her father was a labourer. One of their daughters Deborah, born 1861 married in Wales, 1884, father described as a caretaker. On census records for Deborah, her birthplace is Skibbereen. Daughter Elisabeth born 1864 Skibbereen.  Daughter Lucy born 1866, address Oak Mount, district of Castletown. Lucy's address on her marriage cert in 1897 gives her address as Kilbrittain, and her father as a farmer. Another daughter Kate born 1869 also Castletown, but as I don't have a birth cert for this, do not know address. She is with her sister Elisabeth in London, on the 1901 census and gives birthplace as Skibbereen, not Castletown. Just as a matter of interest, if the father William was deceased at the time of Lucy's marriage in 1897, would it say so. The reason I ask is that I can only find a death for William Roberts in 1890, and I know that her mother Lucy was a widow on the 1901 Irish census. I will quote you a passage from some handwritten notes from one of the great-grandsons ......"Lucy Roberts was born on a farm called Hollybrook, near Skibbereen, she and her older sister Mary lived for 12 years at Kilbrittain Castle owned by Jonas Alcock-Stole, a friend.   Mary was born on Valentia Island near Caherciveen, she was secretary to Knights of Kerry. Hollybrook farm ran hunters and hounds, one sister Kate was good horsewoman and won gold bracelet.  All the sisters were educated in private schools. There were 3 sons, two who died young were Waterloo soldiers and another Jack who ran away to sea as his father was so strict, I believe he settled in New Zealand"  ........  I think we can discount the Waterloo reference as that was way before they were born. The writer also makes reference to a cousin Ben Roberts being a politician in the early NZ Parliament, possibly a descendant of Jack Roberts.  The only sister who seems to have married "well" was Elisabeth, her husband was a well known physician and surgeon George Burford who set up homeopathic clinics. Moya

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Cork / Re: Castletown
« on: Saturday 01 September 12 01:26 BST (UK)  »
The certificate was dated 29th September 1866.  Father's occupation Labourer. This child when she grew up, married in 1897, her address at that time was Kilbrittain, her father a farmer. Family lore has it that two of the children lived for 12 years at Kilbrittain Castle owned by a friend Jonas Alcock-Stawell. I am wondering if the father was a tenant farmer and lived on the estate. Can't see why only 2 children out of 9 would live in the castle. Also mentioned is the name Hollybrook farm that ran hunters and hounds, and that the female children of the family were educated at private schools. Cannot reconcile this with the father being a labourer.  Moya

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Cork / Castletown
« on: Thursday 30 August 12 09:13 BST (UK)  »
Have a birth certificate with the registration district of Castletown. The father's address is given as Oak Mount. Would this have been a street address in Castletown, or somewhere within the registration district.  Moya

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Cork / Death certificates
« on: Monday 27 August 12 02:06 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone advise what would be contained in a death certificate dated 1878. Would the wife (or maybe widow) be named and also the religious denomination. Thankyou.  Moya

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Kerry / Re: Mary Roberts/Valentia Island
« on: Saturday 25 August 12 01:51 BST (UK)  »
Mary's parents were married in Caheragh Parish church (COI) in 1854. I have traced her sisters Deborah, (1861) Bessie (1864) Lucy (1866) Kathleen (1869). Only Mary remains elusive, although she is recorded on Deborahs marriage cert as a witness in London 1884 (signed as Mary Ellen Roberts). There seems rather a big gap between the marriage date of 1854 and the birth of Deborah in 1861. (this date taken from marriage cert, couldn't find a baptism record). There were 3 sons born but can't find them either, one of them believed to be named Jack who ran away to sea and ended up in New Zealand, but I'm still working on this one.  Moya

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Kerry / Mary Roberts/Valentia Island
« on: Friday 24 August 12 08:58 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to trace the birth of Mary Roberts. About 1863, near Cahirciveen, Valentia Island. She was the daughter of William Roberts (a farmer) and Lucy Connell of Skibbereen Cork. All the other children of the family were born in Skibbereen.  Family information says that she was a secretary to the Knights of Kerry, but I am not sure if this is an association, or if she worked for someone privately. She was not the first born of the family, so would like to find out why she is the only one born in Kerry. Thankyou.  Moya

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