RootsChat.Com

Hi aghadowey,

Wow! this is  all fantastic stuff, very interesting to me.
I remember " Mount Herald " as a boy, my Grandmother took me there a few times.
My Grandmother's second marriage to Alex did not work out and she seperated from him.
I did meet him a few times as a boy and he was always very pleasant to my Mother and myself as I remember.
Terence B Graham I also remember, I think he later became Town Clerk.
I have a letter from him to my Grandmother amongst many old photographs.
Many thanks for providing this information it really is of great interest to me,

Regards

Frank

 To : - thegabriel

Hi,  I had a quick look through the old photographs I have of family members.
Much of what I have is written by my late Brother, so this information my be inaccurate.

Savages : - I don't have the year of Isa's, ( nee Gordon ) marriage to David Savage but Isa was born in 1901 and died in 1981. It says David died in 1957, I do remember the funeral so that sounds correct. David was 59 years old according to what I have, their address was 88 Castle Street, Bangor.

Ethel Gordon ( my Grandmother )  - Graham - Savage ( second marriage )
I don't know when she married Alex Savage but I believe I know his side of the family.
I met Ethel's second husband as a young child in the 1950's.
I believe he was the Son of James H Savage a well known building contractor in Bangor.
The older Son died in action in 1917.
I have a book which shows me the family home and Ethel's second husband as a boy and my Grandmother did take me there, to the house, once or twice so I am assuming I have this right.
All a bit vague I know but hopefully you experts can now piece it together?
I know you have links to the Lightbody's but may I ask your links to the Savage's?
Who knows we may end up related in some distant way!
I do have some very old photographs, early 1900's so if there does turn out to be  a link I will be happy to scan and send these to you as I have been doing for George ( my Cousin ).
Perhaps you could provide your email address  ( through PM ) if you require these
as it's easier to just  scan and add as attachments?
I hope I have given you some more pieces of the puzzle,

Regards

Frank

Greetings Frank,

  Thanks so much for the response! And thank you for the offer
of sharing what you have, that is great.I would love to see
photos and stuff one day. I'd especially like to see Bangor and
Castle Square area and what the people look like.
May I ask your grandmother's names
and her sister's names and whom they married from the Savage
family, and roughly when they married? I am wondering about
the Savage family that lives at "house 62 in Castle Square" on
the 1911 Census. The parents are David (52yrs) and Mary (41)
with daughters Maggie (22) and Sarah(17) and sons Andrew (20),
David (13) and Alexander (4). I have found very sparse
information on them doing searches online over the years. I
wonder if your grandmother and aunt married into that Savage
family. I think that I saw that, that Alexander Savage may
have died around 1930 and that, that Andrew Savage was in the
Machine Gun Corps in WW1.
Frank, I see that you and George are cousins; are you a
descendant of a Lightbody too?
And, I guess from reading this, that Edith Lightbody is his
mother. I do see, her family on the 1911 Census.
I will map out the information that George has posted and if
you see this George, when I am going through my files, I will
see what I find for your Grandparents and before. I think I
could have something. I have a lot of Lightbody files. There
has been a lot of using the process of elimination to
determine my ancestral links. And, right now, anthing backward
or as siblings to my gr-gr-grandparents are guesses.

This is the Lightbody family on the 1911 Census at 96.1 Castle St. that I am a descendant from.
Lightbody   William John   42      
Lightbody   Jane   40   
Lightbody   Jeannie   20   
Lightbody   Mary   18   
Lightbody   Annie   22   
Lightbody   Nellie   15   
Lightbody   Sadie   13   
Lightbody   Susan   12   
Schofield   Tom   24      
Moore   John   16   
Lightbody   William James   11   
Lightbody   William John   9   
Lightbody   Herbert   7   
Lightbody   James   4   
Schofield   Albert   2

I am posting this now and am still trying to write more ....


Hi

George and I are related from his Father's side of the family, his Mother was a Lightbody!
George's Father was my Grandmothers Brother, they were Gordons.
My Grandmother, Ethel, on her second marriage, married into the Savage family.
I will verify when she married I think I have this amongst the photographs and old certificates that I found when my Brother died last year.
My Grandmothers husband was Alex Savage. My Grandmothers Sister ( Isa ) married David Savage, ( Isa and David ) lived in Castle Street, number 56 I think, something like that!
I need to clarify the Gordon - Savage links yet, it's slightly confusing as there were many of them in Bangor!
The Savage family that lived in Castle Square when I was a boy, late 1940's onwards lived about  4 or 5 houses along from me ( terraced houses ).
The Father's name ( if memory serves ), was again Alex so this is slightly confusing.
I was a friend of Maurice Savage, he was probably born about 1951, 1952, he had a  Sister Mabel that I remember also.
I will have a good trawl through what I have now got and see if I can piece some of this together re: Savage.
Hopefully you and George can continue with the Lightbody side of his family.
Meanwhile you might find this link useful, it shows a little bit of my childhood memories, turn on your speakers to fully enjoy it  :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5siE0f1Ef5E

Regards

Frank

Hi George,

Good to hear from you after all these years!
It was indeed Walter that I remember, as soon as I saw " Hayford and the Primacy " in your latest  post the pieces all fell into place!
It was only by chance that I came across this blog and seeing your name associated with Lightbody led me to join really in order to contact you.

Regards

Frank