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The Common Room / Re: Who is Henry James Wallis, born ~1831 and died 1904 in Liverpool UK
« on: Wednesday 30 November 22 23:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for sharing the free census search link.

I’ve been struggling with England because most of my family are Scottish and Scotland’s People works so well.

The link is therefore very helpful.

I will have a look more there tomorrow when I have fresher eyes to see what I can find on him / any potential parents.

I think his father may have sold fishing tackle in London, but, again, the further I go back the less reliable things seem

…just need to find a solid link to the next generation back!

Thank you again! 👍😀

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The Common Room / Re: Who is Henry James Wallis, born ~1831 and died 1904 in Liverpool UK
« on: Wednesday 30 November 22 23:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much indeed!

I have been using findmypast.com, but I find it quite hit-and-miss and it doesn’t pull up some of the census years you mention when I type in Henry’s name / estimated D.O.B.


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The Common Room / Who is Henry James Wallis, born ~1831 and died 1904 in Liverpool UK
« on: Wednesday 30 November 22 23:12 GMT (UK)  »
I’m struggling to find out anything about the history of my ancestor Henry James Wallis.

He was born sometime around 1831. He was married to Ann Morgan in Liverpool in April 1855 and he died in Liverpool in April 1904.

I think he may have been a photographer.

I just cannot find out who his parents were, who his siblings were, and where he and his parents originally came from.

I’d really appreciate any help as I am totally stuck ☹️

Thank you so very much to anyone who can help with this!

Ps. Attached is what I have so far, the further back it goes the less confident I am in it being correct 😬

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Help needed for mysterious Moffats
« on: Wednesday 31 March 21 02:16 BST (UK)  »
This is my grandfather, Albert’s nephew and David’s son, born in 1926 when Albert was (I think) around 20 years old. His name was Thomas Moffat.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Help needed for mysterious Moffats
« on: Wednesday 31 March 21 01:39 BST (UK)  »
I’d love to know the same!

The Moffats had links to the Hemphills through marriage. My great-grandfather David (that would be Albert’s brother) was married to an Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Hemphill.

There might have been another Moffat-Hemphill marriage further back in time. I might be wrong, but it looks like John Moffat married Rebecca Hemphill around 1849. John and Rebecca would’ve been my 3x great-grandparents.

All of them (the Hemphills and Moffats) seem very much ‘Ulster Scots’. The Hemphills appeared politically active.

It looks like Lizzie Hemphill and David Moffat (David being Albert’s sibling) lived in or around Coleraine, Ireland before moving to Greenock, Scotland when David was in his very early thirties.

David was quite a bit older than his brother Albert, they were about 14 years apart in age. So every single one of them moved across?

A lot of the Moffat family seem (1) very naturally intelligent and (2) very musical. Do any of your close Moffat relations share this? More than one of the descendants I know of are aeroplane pilots, a few are musicians, there’s a professional dancer.

I’m really interested in getting back further but I’m getting stuck at the same place as you! Happy to hear from you.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Help needed for mysterious Moffats
« on: Wednesday 09 January 19 21:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but hope it is interesting.

It seems as though I am directly descended from the same family

- Lizzie/Elizabeth Hemphill (1879-1966) was my great-grandmother
- Anne McGlaughlin (1861-?) was my great-great-grandmother
- Anne McGlaughlin was married to my great-great-grandfather Thomas Moffat.
- Lizzie was married to my great-grandfather David Moffat (1881-1953)

My grandad Thomas (Tommy) Moffat was Lizzie Hemphill's son, he died in 2002 and was born in Greenock in 1926.

My father, David, is Tommy's son. My father and the rest of my immediate family moved away to London when I was a young child. But my Dad still has recollections of my great-grandfather. My grandmother is 89 years old and will certainly remember Lizzie Hemphill and David Moffat (my great-great grandparents/her parents-in-law).

I have only recently started tracing my family tree and have been finding the Irish (Moffat) side difficult. The rest of my family have come from Scotland since the 1700s you see, so I'd gotten used to all the Scottish websites and resources. If you have any research you can share about the Moffats pre-1950 my father and I would be really delighted.

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