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Cavan / Re: Staffords of Cavan
« on: Sunday 06 August 17 04:03 BST (UK) »
Hi Duncan,
You may well have progressed beyond the search for the name of Alexander Stafford's first wife (the one preceding Lydia Byars).
I am a great great granddaughter of Alexander Stafford and Lydia Byers. My great grandfather emigrated to Australia and settled in Queensland. He was also Alexander, Married to Annie Elizabeth Mulligan (or Milligan).
I was looking at some records of Bellasis Presbyterian Church, where lots of Staffords, Byers/Byas and Mulligans/Milligans were baptized, married, buried. (byersfamilies.com)
Among the records shown was the marriage record of Alex Stafford Jun, Widower and farmer of Carrickmore to 15 year old Lydia Byars. Among the same records were the marriage of Henry Stafford, aged 17 in 1858 - which would have made him born circa 1841. Further on I noted a child James born May 1843 to Alex Stafford, Farmer of Carrickmore and Jane. It seemed possible to me that Henry and James were brothers and that Jane was Alex Stafford jun.'s first wife. Unfortunately no surname shown for Jane ... but a possible lead??
I am really only just beginning my search - but you might have material of interest to me. Happy to share info about the Staffords in Australia if useful. My maternal grandmother kept house for her unmarried uncle, William, in his later years and he left her some small shops he had in the Sandgate area. This was how she met my grandfather - who lived close to the shops ...
If you have had correspondence with someone in NZ I wondered it if might be a descendant of my great aunty Cissy (Marion) King of Palmerston North. I am in touch with some but not all of her descendants.
Robyn Williams Hopper
You may well have progressed beyond the search for the name of Alexander Stafford's first wife (the one preceding Lydia Byars).
I am a great great granddaughter of Alexander Stafford and Lydia Byers. My great grandfather emigrated to Australia and settled in Queensland. He was also Alexander, Married to Annie Elizabeth Mulligan (or Milligan).
I was looking at some records of Bellasis Presbyterian Church, where lots of Staffords, Byers/Byas and Mulligans/Milligans were baptized, married, buried. (byersfamilies.com)
Among the records shown was the marriage record of Alex Stafford Jun, Widower and farmer of Carrickmore to 15 year old Lydia Byars. Among the same records were the marriage of Henry Stafford, aged 17 in 1858 - which would have made him born circa 1841. Further on I noted a child James born May 1843 to Alex Stafford, Farmer of Carrickmore and Jane. It seemed possible to me that Henry and James were brothers and that Jane was Alex Stafford jun.'s first wife. Unfortunately no surname shown for Jane ... but a possible lead??
I am really only just beginning my search - but you might have material of interest to me. Happy to share info about the Staffords in Australia if useful. My maternal grandmother kept house for her unmarried uncle, William, in his later years and he left her some small shops he had in the Sandgate area. This was how she met my grandfather - who lived close to the shops ...
If you have had correspondence with someone in NZ I wondered it if might be a descendant of my great aunty Cissy (Marion) King of Palmerston North. I am in touch with some but not all of her descendants.
Robyn Williams Hopper