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Down / Re: Church Records, Newtownards N.I.
« on: Wednesday 14 May 14 08:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi Kerhal,

From your posts it looks like my mother's grandfather - Patrick Quinn - had a load of siblings that we had no clue about, and it appears that they liked to use the same names over multiple generations...

If I'm reading your posts correctly, Patrick's "missing" (from our perspective) siblings are as follows:

James
John
Annie 
Hugh
Thomas
James
Cecilia

Patrick's wife we have down as Alice Ann McCann b. 08/08/1877, who married Patrick in St Malachy's Church, Belfast, on 12/07/1896.

Cecilia, my grandmother, is one of the six Patrick and Alice's children listed in the previous post. Confusingly, Alice is sometimes referred to as "Ann" in our family records. BTW, four out of the six of the siblings (Sarah, Isabella, William, James) moved to Detroit in the US back in the '30s. We've had some contact over the years with the family of one of them up until fairly recently.

I think you've just filled in a massive hole in our search - a million more things to check up on as a result, but thank you :-)

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Down / Re: Church Records, Newtownards N.I.
« on: Tuesday 13 May 14 10:26 BST (UK)  »
Hi Karhel,

I'm still trying to get the full details of the tree nailed down, and you're highlighting a lot of gaps, but what I have up to now is as follows:

Patrick Quinn's father: James Quinn - flax dresser in Comber.

Mother: Isabella Quinn Bohal

Patrick Quinn b. 01/09/1874, Maryborough Terrace, Comber. Patrick married Alice Anne Quinn nee McCann around 1896.

Their kids were:

John, Cecilia (my grandmother / mum's mother, b. 16/12/1910), Sarah, Isabella, William and James.

I've just spoken to my mum, and she doesn't know whether Patrick had any siblings - from what you're saying, there're at least two (Cecilia and Anne, your connection) that we didn't know about, assuming that there is actually a connection in our family lines. The dates for Patrick Quinn coupled with the Quinn Bohal name would certainly seem to indicate a connection - it would also explain why my grandmother's name was Cecilia!

Regarding Patrick Quinn, apparently he used to work over in Salford for a while, which is why my grandmother (Cecilia) was born on the mainland. Additionally, my grandmother's brother John moved to Salford, which is where my mum ended up when her parents passed away.

Is that sounding any more likely re: there being a connection?

Kind regards,

Robbie.

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Down / Re: Church Records, Newtownards N.I.
« on: Tuesday 06 May 14 08:08 BST (UK)  »
Karhel: I'm not sure if you still frequent this site, but I believe that we have a number of shared relations from Belfast - I'm currently looking into my mother's family, and during a search for Isabella Quinn Bohal came across your query.

My mother b. 1944, who lived in the Newtonards area - had parents John Curley and Cecilia Quinn. Cecilia Quinn's parents were James Quinn and Isabella Quinn Bohal, with father Patrick Quinn born 1st September 1874 - which is another exact match for your query! Apparently Isabella came from a very proper family, so you weren't allowed to call her 'Bella' - it was the full name or nothing :-)

Both of my mother's parents passed away within 6 months of each other around 1962, and she and her sister came over to stay with relatives in Manchester for a short while. She's 70 this year and has a sudden interest in finding out what happened to everyone that she lost touch with both in Ireland and the UK. we have a lot more detail about her father's family, so she's asked me to start digging into her mother's side.

Would you mind dropping me a message please when you're online - I'm a newbie so can't send you a direct message, any info very much appreciated!

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