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Down / Re: How to find a death/burial date
« on: Tuesday 11 October 16 14:47 BST (UK) »
Thank you...finding a death date would be a great start. Will check it out.
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Down / Re: How to find a death/burial date
« on: Monday 10 October 16 22:58 BST (UK) »
Thanks for replies...I can get to Belfast, just didn't know if I could find out about deaths/burials less than 50 years old. I have tried the Belfast City burial records and none match although many other members of the family are buried there and I can find their records.
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Down / How to find a death/burial date
« on: Monday 10 October 16 19:28 BST (UK) »
Hi, I wonder can someone tell me how to find when/where my great aunts died and where they may be buried. Their deaths would have taken place in the late 1970s-1980s. I know their last place of residence - names Emily and Mary (Ellen) Lowry (East Belfast). There is no living relative that can help me with this - will GRONI tell me?
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Down / Re: Dorrie Cunning
« on: Thursday 20 February 14 16:13 GMT (UK) »
Oh that's interesting, I'm glad you have made some family contacts. I am sure the book will be available on Amazon or some Christian bookshops. It is quite an easy read and talks about their early lives and other people they knew. Hope you can get hold of one.
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Down / Re: Dorrie Cunning
« on: Thursday 20 February 14 15:16 GMT (UK) »
You may be interested to know that there is a book published by Victor Maxwell entitled "When God steps in" and James & Dorrie's story features in it - there is even a small picture of Dorrie (in the background) on the front cover.
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Down / Re: Dorrie Cunning
« on: Thursday 20 February 14 14:26 GMT (UK) »
Hi, I had the privilege of knowing Dorrie a little in the latter part of her life - she attended a little gospel meeting I also went to. She was a lovely lady, lived latterly in Grange Manor appartments Bangor. As far as I am aware James and she had no children. Perhaps her missionary society who she served the majority of her life with, could give more info...The ACRE Gospel Mission. I believe she also was a member of Newtownards Baptist Church. Either of these could be a source of information. Best wishes.
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Down / Re: James MUNN of Comber
« on: Monday 26 August 13 18:33 BST (UK) »
Hi, I don't know if this is a connection but just happened to notice that alongside my gt grandfather's obituary in Belfast Newsletter dated Jan 13th 1904 there is one inserted by a James Munn for his wife, "Mary M Long, died Jan 11th at her residence Mont Cecil, Bloomfield, dearly beloved wife of James Munn. Her remains will be removed for interment in Comber Cemetery this Wed afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends will please accept this intimation. James Munn"
Perhaps it means something to those of you researching Munns of Comber.
Perhaps it means something to those of you researching Munns of Comber.
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Warwickshire / Re: London and North Western Railway records
« on: Thursday 01 August 13 18:07 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your input Jim...I guess the Liverpool/Belfast crossing makes sense. I know he worked as a clerk for a coal merchant in Belfast Quay area but sadly passed away in 1870 aged 44; however the family remained and settled here in Belfast.
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Warwickshire / London and North Western Railway records
« on: Thursday 01 August 13 16:01 BST (UK) »
Hi, my gt gt grandfather, William John Steadman was employed as a railway bookings clerk for London & North Western Railways. He lived at 27 Bristol Street, Birmingham. I have been able to see his employment records on line but they end with showing him 'dismissed' from the Company on 5 Feb 1863. Would there be any more detailed records available showing why he was dismissed? Following this he uprooted his young family and moved to Belfast where the family remained (although originally from Yorkshire/Lancashire). This raises another question...how would they have travelled from Birmingham to Belfast in the 1860s?
Appreciate any thoughts.
Appreciate any thoughts.