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Cavan / Re: James family Cavan
« on: Wednesday 18 December 24 15:53 GMT (UK)  »
That's a good joke hahaha. I've looked into religious denominations for this before.

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure about the James's financial status early on. John wrote a will in 1860, in which he stated that he gave his 99 acres to his wife Eliza. His son (also Thomas William James (1850-1912)) later became a successful farmer and was reeve of Osgoode for a couple of years. John gave his 3 daughters 10 British pounds (about $1900 USD today) each, which seems to be somewhat substantial for a farmer in his mid thirties. This will isn't online and I bought it from ONLAND a couple of years ago.

 On the other hand, Harriet and her family seem to have completely disappeared. They were servants in a neighbors house in 1861 (this neighbor also witnessed John's will, Henry Hannah) and there is no further record of them after that. One would think if they came from influence that there would be some other record of them.

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Cavan / Re: James family Cavan
« on: Wednesday 18 December 24 02:34 GMT (UK)  »
The letter that my grandma's cousins wife wrote stated that Thomas was a shoemaker and that he ran a store in Vernon, Ontario but I am not sure if that is true. John was a farmer so I always thought that his dad would have farmed as well but there is no source for that. But maybe Thomas wasn't qualified to be on the tithe books.

That's an amazing point about religion and spouses. For years I had Thomas who married Mary Williamson as the mother of John, since it fit quite nicely with the parish records for BDJ only starting in 1826. And if Mary died, and Thomas married Harriet ----, she was born in England according to the 1861 census, so she would have been Anglican and maybe that's why Thomas was supposedly buried in an Anglican Cemetery - that always struck me as strange since John was a Methodist but John's wife Eliza's family, the Little's, were Methodists as well so maybe that's where that came from.

Thank you for your input. A fresh perspective can really help!

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Cavan / Re: James family Cavan
« on: Wednesday 18 December 24 01:29 GMT (UK)  »
There are many children baptized under 'Thomas James and wife Mary Williamson' in the Presbyterian Church in Ballyjamesduff. They're on rootsireland, Jane 1827, Robert 1828, William 1830 and Jane 1832. I think the Thomas James on the Moodoge tithe books and the valuation books for the 1840s seems to be the same guy.
Honestly I don't think this could be the same person as the Thomas in Osgoode... seems like too much of a religious difference. He could've easily gone to the Presbyterian Church in Osgoode if he was Presbyterian.

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Cavan / James family Cavan
« on: Tuesday 17 December 24 22:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,
I have been researching my grandmother's family, the James's. Her great great grandfather was John James (1824-1860), who died of consumption on 31 Jul 1860. He lived in Osgoode in the 1851 (Jan 1852) and 1861 census death register. I also have him and his wife appearing on early 1850s Methodist Church records. His wife was Elizabeth Ann "Eliza" Little (1833-1909), her second husband was David Fulcher and third was Alex Stuart. John was buried in the Metcalfe Union Cemetery. My grandmother's aunt said that John was born in Cavan but I was never able to confirm that. An old letter from a cousin's wife in the 80s said that John's father was a Thomas James who was murdered and buried in an Anglican Cemetery in Metcalfe.

I found a Thomas James in Cavan on the 1821 census but I don't think that was him since he was a Presbyterian. I would really appreciate it if anyone was able to help me.

The first record of the James's in Osgoode was the baptism of Thomas William James, I think he was John 1824's half brother. He was baptized in 1844 to Thomas and Harriet James. Harriet, Thomas W and another son Joseph were living together in 1861 census but the husband Thomas Sr was dead. I am guessing Harriet is John's step mom and her husband was his father but I have not been able to prove anything beyond this. I would appreciate any help anyone would be able to give.

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Limerick / Baptisms of Adare Parish 1804-1826 - Royal Spear- Mary Wallace
« on: Monday 25 September 23 00:55 BST (UK)  »
Hello there,
I have seen many references to early baptisms of the Anglican St Mary's church of Adare Parish in Limerick in a family document sent to me by a cousin who eventually referred me to a Mary Wallace, who died soon after I made contact with her and she sent me a limited amount of data that she had on my family in adare. I was making this post hoping that someone would be able to help me to get a copy of whatever registers she had from St Mary's early history. Mary had told me that she received the registers from the late Royal Spear, who I presume had either been able to copy them from before the fire in 1922 (as after the fire only the 1826-1878 registers survived) or he got a copy of a copy, and she said that what she got was badly damaged.
If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.

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Lanarkshire / Re: James Ai(t)kenhead and Ann Fleming
« on: Monday 03 July 23 01:00 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Kim and Anne. It seems that James A*K*N of Cadgerloan was not the James Aitkenhead who married Anne Fleming, as I just found the baptism of William Aicken, b. 5/3/1741 in Cadgerloan to James. Thank you for all the info.

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Cavan / Re: Helen Burrows Family in Cavan
« on: Wednesday 14 June 23 19:50 BST (UK)  »
Thank you! The family was indeed in Monnery, Francis being in lower in 1821 census. I did not know that there were baotisms for Frances, Mary and William! They had a daughter Jane in 1814, is her baptism recorded?

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Roxburghshire / Re: How to get more on Barbary/Barbara Oliver?
« on: Thursday 09 February 23 14:35 GMT (UK)  »
The 1861 census for Mary says that she was born near Edinburgh. Maybe she wasn't connected to the Roxburghshire Olivers?
Found here: https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1080&h=2885638&ssrc=pt&tid=164173685&pid=372265908189&usePUB=true&_gl=1*o8vhdl*_ga*MTE1ODI3Mzk4MS4xNjQwMzA0NzQy*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY3NTk1Mjg3OC40MTMuMS4xNjc1OTUzMzA3LjQxLjAuMA..*_ga_B2YGR3SSMB*Zjk2MGY3MjktYWFhMC00ZTEyLWE1Y2EtYzIyOGE3ZDUwZjcxLjU1My4xLjE2NzU5NTMzMTAuMS4wLjA.

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Roxburghshire / Re: How to get more on Barbary/Barbara Oliver?
« on: Wednesday 08 February 23 11:43 GMT (UK)  »
I have, Frank has so much good information! Unfortunately it is a one name study, which does not extend to the Oliver’s. Thank you for mentioning it though!

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