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Family History Beginners Board / Harley Turner
« on: Thursday 25 October 12 12:01 BST (UK)  »
I am searching for information on Harley Turner who was born in Aston, Birmingham in June 1914. He was the son of my Grand Aunt, Mary Emma McGrath who married Harley Turner in Aston and their only child was Harley (junior).
Harley senior, some records have his name as Arley, had the middle name Llewelyn, and died in 1961, again in Birmingham.
Family stories have Harley junior as a paratrooper in WW2 with one saying he was a casualty in Crete, another saying at Arnhem. The CWGC website has no record of either. However, death records say that Harley Turner, born in 1914 died aged 74 in Aston in 1989.
I would be grateful for any information about Harley junior.
Mary Emma died in 1919 and Harley senior married again to Ethel Perry and for several years Harley junior was "adopted" by his mother's sister, Kathleen Dodd (nee McGrath) in Birkenhead.
Many thanks.
Jim McGrath

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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Bernard McGrath
« on: Tuesday 21 August 12 11:08 BST (UK)  »
Thank you, Allan.
Tantalising information!
Bernard was living as a lodger in the house of Francis Jones in the 1881 census in Liverpool.
If he married Catherine Jones it could be a relative of Francis. His child Mary Emma was born and died in Dec 1884.
In 1891 Bernard is living in Birkenhead with Louisa, listed as his wife, although they did not marry until 1895, and her two children, surname JONES. Louisa (Bird) was the widow of William James JONES who died in 1888. When Bernard married in 1895 he had twins with Louisa, one named Kathleen and the other, MARY EMMA.
The connections are surely more than coincidence but I cannot find a death of his first wife, Catherine, after the birth of Mary Emma in 1884 in any of the databases on ancestry.co.uk or bmd sites.
Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Jim

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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Bernard McGrath
« on: Monday 20 August 12 12:39 BST (UK)  »
Age given in the census, usually April in each case, 1881, 26; in 1891, 37: marriage in June 1895, 40: 1901, 47 and death in 1906 as 52. All seem to point to 1854 but no earlier than 1853.
Jim

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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Bernard McGrath
« on: Monday 20 August 12 11:31 BST (UK)  »
I would like to find any information about my Great Grandfather, Bernard McGrath who according to the censuses of 1881 lived in Liverpool, aged 27 and born in Boyle, Roscommon in 1853, or 1854. He then moved to Birkenhead and is listed in the 1891 and 1901 censuses as having a family of whom my Grandfather, also Bernard, was born in 1897.
Bernard died in 1906 and in the various censuses he is listed as a tailor.
His marriage certificate dated 1895 lists his age as 40, he is a widower, and his father was Thomas McGrath, a labourer and presumably he lived in Boyle.
Any information would be most appreciated.
Jim McGrath

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Kavanagh family
« on: Monday 20 August 12 10:46 BST (UK)  »
Apologies to you both, Heywood and Shane!!
I have been reading this certificate wrongly. You seem to have worked that out!!
You are right - it is James Dournean who is the father of Marcella Dournean with the mother being Mary, formerly Kavanagh. James Dournean being the father and the fisherman.
The names do have their links as my mother was Dorothy Mary Kavanagh b. 1927, in Birkenhead, her father James Ryan Kavanagh, b. 1902 in Birkenhead, and Marcella as shown above.
Is there any trace of Mary Kavanagh in the censuses of 1891, 1881 in Arklow/Wicklow?
Jim

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Kavanagh family
« on: Monday 20 August 12 09:00 BST (UK)  »
James' occupation is listed as fisherman.
From other links on the family tree, James is probably a brother to Thomas Ryan Kavanagh as James recurs several times later as a Kavanagh christian name.
Also, Marcella is a christian name of Joseph Ryan Kavanagh's daughter born in Birkenhead, England in 1938. Joseph Ryan was the older brother to James Ryan Kavanagh, my grandfather who both were sons of the elusive Thomas Ryan Kavanagh, born in 1860 (poss. 1859) in Wicklow.
My family tree is available for public viewing on ancestry.co.uk.
Many thanks,
Jim

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Kavanagh family
« on: Sunday 19 August 12 20:38 BST (UK)  »
Upper Main Street, Arklow
Jim

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Kavanagh family
« on: Sunday 19 August 12 20:29 BST (UK)  »
I have found a copy of a birth certificate dated 3rd Nov 1888 for Marcella Kavanagh, daughter of James and Mary Kavanagh, of Upper Main Street, and this must be a relative of Thomas Kavanagh, my Great Grandfather.
Mary Kavanagh is shown as being born Mary Dournean.
It is from the register of the Arklow district, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow.
Is this of any help.
This copy was issued in 1948 and the various details are in Gaelic. with English sub-titles.

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Family History Beginners Board / Kavanagh family
« on: Thursday 16 August 12 15:39 BST (UK)  »
My GG Grandfather was Thomas Ryan Kavanagh born circa 1861.

The only additional info I have on him is the name and occupation of his father (from Thomas's wedding certificate in 1888), which is Peter Kavanagh, Coachman.

Any help gratefully received.
This was a message sent out several years ago by my cousin, Mark Thomas. I am continuing this search. We have information that Thomas Ryan Kavanagh was born in the Wicklow area, and his father was Peter.
Thomas came to England and was married to Susan Moore in 1888 while serving with the Scots Guards, in Windsor, Berkshire.
Once more, any help would be gratefully received.

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