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Dublin / Re: James Connolly
« on: Monday 08 May 17 19:35 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: hasta on Monday 08 May 17 17:36 BST (UK)
Ina Connolly Heron's witness statement gives some details on her father's brother John - namely that he was in the Army and died in 1916
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0919.pdf#page=119
A bit more snooping says that he enlisted using the name REID. That appears correct as one of his files (1914) exists giving his wife as Elizabeth Aicheson/ Connolly of 4 Fountain Close, Edinburgh.
His death is here:
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/416281/CONNOLLY,%20JOHN
and they married 8th August 1891 (you can buy that on Scotlandspeople)
The file says they have 5 children but none are named unfortunately.
You really need your g grandfather's birth cert - or failing that his marriage cert or I believe Scottish death certs name parents names as well ?

Thanks for that. I can now confirm that James Connolly was my great great uncle. John Connolly (husband of Elizabeth Aichison) was my great great grandad and John Connolly (husband of Elizabeth Wilson) was my great grandfather. I always knew that Elizabeth was my great grandmother as I used to visit her in her house in the Canongate and in the nursing home she was in on Little Road, Edinburgh until the day she died. My great grandfather married my great grandmother on 16th January 1920 witnessed my his parents John and Elizabeth (nee Aichison).

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Dublin / Re: James Connolly
« on: Monday 08 May 17 10:37 BST (UK)  »
I have been told that James Connolly is my great great uncle. My grandmother was Ellen Bain (nee Connolly) who dies in 2000 and her mother, my great grandmother was Elizabeth Connolly who stayed at 202 Canongate (beside the wee newsagent shop). She died in 1990? Her husband (my great grandfather) John Connolly died in 1975.

I have been told, my great grandfather John was the son of John Connolly Jnr, James Connolly's brother.

I cannot find any information on John Connolly Jnr, apart from Elizabeth Aicheson? who was his wife. This name would link with my great grandmother's name, Elizabeth.

Any help is much appreciated. Going up to Mount Vernon Cemetery later on to get some dates of births and deaths.

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