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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Two Birthplaces in Quebec
« on: Sunday 26 September 21 05:39 BST (UK)  »
Found her on the 1911 Census.  They were living in Suffolk, which contains the hamlet of Namur, the mystery has been solved.  Thanks

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Two Birthplaces in Quebec
« on: Thursday 23 September 21 01:37 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: manukarik on Thursday 16 September 21 23:06 BST (UK)
dublin1850, Farellton looks good. Can't find anything that looks like Manmure though!

I found a person, right age, right name, from Maisonneuve.  I wonder if perhaps in f accent could have been interpreted this way. 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Two Birthplaces in Quebec
« on: Friday 17 September 21 00:15 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much, Farrellton was correct and I was able to find him in the Census under Wakefield.  I think I can find her place of birth if I can find their marriage certificate.  I know they were married by 1935 so that should be online if I can ever figure out how to navigate the Quebec Banc Numerique website ;)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Two Birthplaces in Quebec
« on: Thursday 16 September 21 21:47 BST (UK)  »
This is from an Ontario death certificate and it lists the parents birthplaces, both in Quebec, but I can't find any current location that even closely resembles them (or any birth certificates for them)  FWIW he was born in 1908 and she in 1910 (from gravestones)

The family is Presbyterian, he at least was Scottish.  I wonder if perhaps they lived in an English speaking settlement that has since been renamed.  I do not know what part of Quebec they were from , the family was living in Windsor Ontario by 1935 - do not know where they were married.  I haven't found a marriage certificate either.   

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks so much.

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Tipperary / Re: Roman Catholic Nuns
« on: Tuesday 23 March 21 14:54 GMT (UK)  »
Just to update this, I was able to get a full life story from the Ireland chapter via the archives in France.  Very impressed and appreciative.

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Tipperary / Re: Roman Catholic Nuns
« on: Friday 19 March 21 02:26 GMT (UK)  »
So she was my grandfather's sister.  I know she died of 'consumption' aka TB.  Running her name through Ancestry etc. the only hit I got was her birth record.

Looks like any records for Ceylon require $

I wrote to the convent and they never responded.  Not sure what other avenues there are left to explore.

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Tipperary / Re: Roman Catholic Nuns
« on: Thursday 18 March 21 03:22 GMT (UK)  »
Rather than start a new thread I hope you don't mind that I piggyback this one.

Please see attached.  She was born in Rathkea townland, May 31, 1911

I wrote to the convent in Ceylon where she died and got no response :(

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Lanarkshire / Can a 43 year old woman pass for 24?
« on: Monday 08 March 21 04:14 GMT (UK)  »
So this is the daughter of James Johnson from my previous post.  I have no trace of her beyond the Scotland Census of 1891.  Her mother dies in 1892 leaving her as a 9yr old orphan.  I found her sisters Hannah & Margaret at an Industrial School in Kilmarnock in the Census of 1901.  Don't know what happens to Hannah after that, but Margaret is my Great Grandmother, she emigrated to Canada.

Attached is a marriage certificate from 1926, Her name, her birthplace, and both her parents match 100% - the only variance is her birth year - listed as 1902 instead of 1883 - a whopping 19 years.  I dismissed it for a long time but I'm coming around to it being a possibility considering how common it has been for young women to falsify their ages, sometimes by a decade or more. 

Regardless I can't find either Annie Johnston anywhere else, particularly in the 1901 census (The Annie from Calderbank living with her uncle Samuel is a miss - I purchased that record)  Thoughts?

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Lanarkshire / Re: James Johnstone - My White Whale
« on: Friday 05 March 21 03:59 GMT (UK)  »
A few more details with regards to what I know about this branch of the family.

My Great Grandmother, Margaret Johnstone is not a reliable narater for two reasons.  1.  Her father was gone before she was born, and her mother died when she was a child.  I know this because I found her and her sister in an Industrial School in Kilmarnock in the 1901 census.  2. I know from my mother that she was virulently anti-Catholic - and she married a Scotish Presbyterian - I suspect she wanted to keep her Irish heritage hidden.

As for Jamess parents.  The closest I came was a couple, William Johnson & Hannah Coxon who married in Manchester in 1844.  However I was able to trace them up and it wasn't them.  I have researched every William & Hannah pair I could find - none were a fit.  Most importantly I scoured the 1871 census for any trace of the three of them - and every lead proved false (as oposed to unknown).  Thus  I do put weight on the 1881 Scotland census that said he was born in Ireland.  The names match, the location matches, and the very specific occupation as an Iron Puddler matches. and we know he was in Glasgow in 1881.  So my theory now is that he was born in Northern Ireland and when he moved to Manchester it was after 1871.  I have looked in Irish parish records and there are lots of candidates - but no proof since they don't have official records until 1864 and no census until 1901.

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