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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can anyone date this photo from Co Monaghan, late 19th cent. (g-mother's family)
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 21:52 GMT (UK)  »
Cina
Yes, I do love this photo that I found only a few years ago, well on toward my 70th year. My grandmother Mary is the girl in white whom I remember only in her old age. She died in 1955. Around her are her brothers Joseph, Owen, and Patrick (in the front in the Lord Fauntleroy outfit). Her mother Catherine and father Joseph frame the group. Mary left Ireland forever about ten years after this photo was taken and six months after she saw her father die; I found his death certificate at the GRO in Dublin last year, and Mary was the informant named there. It's sad to note that once she left she never saw any of her family again. In the late 1970s my uncle, Mary's first son, visited Ireland and managed to find the grown and married daughters of  little Patrick in the photo, themselves by that time grandmothers. They knew only that they had an "Aunt Mary" and that she left for America long, long ago. By then everyone in this photo was long dead.
JG

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can anyone date this photo from Co Monaghan, late 19th cent. (g-mother's family)
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 20:10 GMT (UK)  »
I can see it, but it is not in good focus. I am going to try to send now a cleaned up version as a jpeg at 200 dpi, the most the system seems to allow me.
JG

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can anyone date this photo from Co Monaghan, late 19th cent. (g-mother's family)
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 19:20 GMT (UK)  »
I can see the first one and the giant second, but not the one I tried at 300 dpi.
JG

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Down / Re: Cunningham family of Ballymageogh, Kilkeel, Down, Ire.
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 19:19 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, I have a lot about Susy, even her initial stay in Dover, NH, lodging at her sister's house (my great grandmother). Her marriage cert says she is 35, but in reality she was about 39; they never had children, probably because of her age. However, this marriage is really interesting because in the 1900 and 1910 US census there are two ''boarders'' at the house, a John H Cunningham and a Mary B (sometimes J) Cunningham, Susy's nephew and niece, both born in Pennsylvania. They stay around Dover till just after the 1910 census and then I lose them. I think they are the son and daughter of Henry Cunningham (jr), Susy's brother; he was a twin to James Cunningham who lived Dover, NH with Susy (and Margaret, and their brother John). Unless I can some day get my hands on that Declaration of Intent for James, I will never know where they landed or when. All I can see is their arrival in Dover not long after Margaret Cunningham married my g-grandfather Patrick.
JG

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can anyone date this photo from Co Monaghan, late 19th cent. (g-mother's family)
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 19:09 GMT (UK)  »
Cina
No, I don't see anything at all.
JG

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can anyone date this photo from Co Monaghan, late 19th cent. (g-mother's family)
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 18:53 GMT (UK)  »
Cina
Did the last one scanned come through? At 300dpi it kept telling me the file was too big. I tried both jpeg and tif.
JG

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Down / Re: Cunningham family of Ballymageogh, Kilkeel, Down, Ire.
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 18:44 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, the Revisions book has '78 penciled in. I suppose I should take it to the bank, as the saying goes. I just thought the grave marker -- you're probably right about that too -- would put it absolutely beyond doubt. Do you have any suggestions about discovering when the kids left Ireland? I think they came over at different times, but nothing avails me. And yesterday, looking for the only naturalization declaration of intent (the doc where they tell the boat, the port, where they lived in Ireland, even their weight sometimes!) I discovered that the State of NH in its wisdom has sent them all from local courthousese to Concord, the state's capital. Trouble is, the archivists there have no room for the stuff and no time to organize it! The document that would help me is in the building, but impossible to find!  JG

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Down / Re: Cunningham family of Ballymageogh, Kilkeel, Down, Ire.
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 18:10 GMT (UK)  »
I have a cert from Ancestry giving the date as Oct-Dec 1878, but I am not certain it is the right one, Cunningham being a very common name in Kilkeel. There is little else there, beyond a guess at his death age, 57. I was hoping that someone had seen his grave marker in Kilkeel, at the Upper Mourne church cemetery perhaps and could confirm. Beyond that, I would really like to know when his sons and daughters came to the States. I know it was in the years around 1865, but it has proven almost impossible to pin port of entry, ship, and exact date down. There are simply too many Margaret, Rose, James, etc. Cunningham to allow any precision from what I have seen till now.
JG

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Down / Re: Cunningham family of Ballymageogh, Kilkeel, Down, Ire.
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 17:52 GMT (UK)  »
You're quite right. What I saw is what you cite here, i.e. he became the administrator. Patrick shows up later in the Revision books replacing Rose's name, I believe in 1890, for the house and land. He is head of household residing there with his sister Mary in 1901 and 1911 although their ages are off somewhat (not unusual on census forms). Patrick was the only son to stay in Ireland (and Mary the only daughter, as far as I can determine).
JG

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