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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Re: ST PETERS/ST ANDREWS DROITWICH - Marriage
« on: Thursday 24 September 15 14:24 BST (UK)  »
I don't think the branch we have looked into has any mixed-race ancestors but it might not be that apparent as we have no photos of earlier generations and there may be little evidence now.  On who do you think you are Rupert Penry-Jones had an Asian ancestor and he is fair-haired and blue eyed!

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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Re: ST PETERS/ST ANDREWS DROITWICH - Marriage
« on: Thursday 24 September 15 13:00 BST (UK)  »
My wife has been looking into the Price family as her ancestor is David Price (b1825), one of Joseph Price's brothers.  She has David's wedding certificate which shows his father (and hence your Joseph's father) as Joseph Price, occupation waterman.  This makes sense as being a waterman often ran in families.  From birth records on the family search website in the Droitwich area (where most of that generation, except Joseph jr, were baptised) it seems their mother was called Mary and my wife thinks she has found Mary on the 1841 and 1851 census where she is shown as originating from Exeter, which ties with Joseph jr being baptised there.  Mary is listed as married and a wife but no husband is present on either census, and to date we can't find Joseph senior on any census.  This makes it hard to know where he is from.
There is a wedding of Joseph Price to Mary Ann Grigg in Exeter in 1806 and this may explain the middle name of Joseph jr's first child!  The wedding record lists Joseph as a soldier. As this was during the Napoleonic wars and Exeter had a barracks this is not unusual and doesn't mean he is from Exeter originally. My wife has another ancestor from south Wales who joined the army and married in Edinburgh and had his first child in Colchester, before settling back in south Wales.

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World War One / John Joseph Kavanagh Connaught Rangers
« on: Sunday 28 July 13 19:55 BST (UK)  »
Not sure where to look- trying to find details of my grandfather. The relatively certain things about him are:-
1. Born in Ireland
2. Joined Connaught Rangers (possibly twice as he may have reenlisted for WW1)
3. Went to London after the war.
4. Name John Joseph Kavanagh.

Now the uncertainties- he married my grandmother but was already married in Ireland and when this was discovered my Gran kicked him out. My mum was quite young and what with not living with her dad, then being evacuated she doesn't know much about him. we have the marriage certificate and he was apparently born around 1887 and his dad was Charles Kavanagh. However as it was bigamy and he was marrying someone a lot younger he may have lied about his dad and his age. My uncle knew a bit more but is unfortunately dead. He did go with his dad to a connaught rangers reunion though.

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Essex / Re: Rayner Mariners
« on: Sunday 28 July 13 19:37 BST (UK)  »
Not sure if this is still active or if this is any use.....
1. I have a Miles Rayner ancestor- not sre when born about 1760 i'd guess. Miles isn't too common a name.
2. Lived at Weeley- a few miles from wivenhoe.
3. Our current family (since 1930 or so) have maritime connections.

Sorry can't help at all other than to point you Possibly at weeley.

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