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Renfrewshire / Re: Morrow or Virtue records
« on: Saturday 09 June 07 14:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi again Alan,  Thanks for keeping me in mind and checking in.  To answer your question I am sorry to say that I have not found out anything more than what I told you the last time I posted a response.  To be honest however, I have not been concentrating on that part of my family for a while as it seems that I had exhausted any leads that I had and other interests were more pressing.  It is nice to keep in touch however as you never know when some tidbit of information can get you going again.  Does the name Virtue figure into your family tree anywhere?  One female member of a Morrow family (Rebecca Morrow) that imigrated to Canada married a William Virtue and it was family lore that the Virtue's and Morrow's lived for a short time in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Both Morrow's and Virtue's settled in about the same area in Ontario, Canada when they imigreated  I do not know if there is any truth to this notion.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Morrow or Virtue records
« on: Tuesday 10 January 06 23:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Alan, I am pretty sure that the family came from Ireland as David's obituary says that he was born in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, Ireland, but obituaries are only written after the individual has died and David died rather unexpectedly when he was visiting his daughter in Kansas so he wasn't around to make sure the obituary was truthful.  It is the daughter he was visiting that wrote on her census form in the States that her father was born in Scotland.  That is why I am checking that area, to see if any leads turn up.  I am at a loss to find anything in Ireland as the records for the parish that includes Ballyjamesduff no longer exist and there seems to be no family on the 1821 census that include him with an older brother named Alexander.  David was only 7 when he came with his brothers but he did become literate and was a well known and respected businessman and politician in the area where he lived as was his brother Alexander, so I think the family must have been literate before they came. I think though that the name might have been written Marrow, or Murrough on very early census and directory records.  Thanks for responding. Kathleen

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Renfrewshire / Morrow or Virtue records
« on: Saturday 07 January 06 23:52 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for possible birth or chistening records for a David Morrow born in 1815 -unknown parents, or an Edward Virtue born in 1815 -parents are Robert Virtue and Phylina Morrison.  Both families may have been in Scotland for very short times and actually lived in Northern Ireland, County Fermanagh and County Cavan.

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