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Down / Re: QUEE of Co. Down
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 14:55 BST (UK) »
As far as I know, all the details you have are correct - so the relationship between the two Williams is certainly interesting! I have been trying to find a death certificate for the first William for a while - what a pity they have such common names - but I think that the burial record confirms what happened.
My grandfather Samuel died on 20 August 1935 when my mother was just 3 years old. She, and her sisters, were always told by their mother that Susan's first husband was a sailor - a captain who was lost at sea and then she married another man with - coincidence! - the same name. So I was a bit suspicious when I discovered that Susan was in the workhouse in 1890 - giving birth to a daughter, Lily, on 15.9.90 - whose father is given as William Johnston, plasterer, whereabouts unknown. I feared she might have married the second William without a death certificate.
Would love to learn more about the family - which of William Quee's children are you descended from?
My grandfather Samuel died on 20 August 1935 when my mother was just 3 years old. She, and her sisters, were always told by their mother that Susan's first husband was a sailor - a captain who was lost at sea and then she married another man with - coincidence! - the same name. So I was a bit suspicious when I discovered that Susan was in the workhouse in 1890 - giving birth to a daughter, Lily, on 15.9.90 - whose father is given as William Johnston, plasterer, whereabouts unknown. I feared she might have married the second William without a death certificate.
Would love to learn more about the family - which of William Quee's children are you descended from?