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« on: Thursday 04 April 13 06:08 BST (UK) »
Hello Everyone,
Thanks to all for your great help in enabling me to break through a brick wall!! And also finding my 1st distant Traynor cousin (other thread). So I have now signed up to RC. Thanks to Edwin for posting on my behalf (as wife says I don't have time for this, she's probably right but sometimes I just can't help it! ha! ha!).
I did find John H Traynor in the US census some years ago but with only limited info I couldn't be sure it was my John H, however I am now certain it is him as I have tracked him through all census records, immigration etc and they all fit (& no death record in UK either).
Jo, so yes it certainly seems that "my" John H Traynor did marry your Elizabeth Hope/Mccaslin. From your last response it would seem "Elizabeth Hope" & Elizabeth Mccaslin" must be one and the same person, I mean what are the chances of having parents with the same names & being born on the same day (where they born in the same place?). The lack of a death record would also seem to support her being the same person. Someone must have entered the wrong name for her parents.
Also Edwin tells me John seems to have a mystery of his own as in the 1900 census it says he was married & had been for 25yrs. This would mean marriage circa 1875 (so before he went to US), I've not found one in Lancashire in that year (I'm not currently subscribed to any site as I'm not "supposed" to be doing any research what with my very young family) but there is the following one in 1872, though I have doubts it's him as marriage took place in Manchester Cathedral & it's not a RC church (maybe she was CofE).
Marriages Mar 1872
Green Sarah Ann Manchester 8d 324
TRAYNER John Manchester 8d 324
There only seems to be 1 possible child in the years immediately after born to a John & Sarah (born locally) (ref. IGI)
Alice Trainor who was christened 28 Mar 1877 in St Bartholomew, Salford.
Haven't found any immigration records (on IGI). So still a bit of a mystery as to who/where/when he married, or if he did indeed marry before.
Jo please PM me so we can discuss & swap info.
Thanks again
Neil
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