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Lanarkshire / Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« on: Sunday 30 January 22 23:32 GMT (UK)  »
Wow- Thank You Forforan, I have enough there to keep me busy for some time. I appreciate your efforts in pointing me in the right direction. Once I have a starting point, I can usually muddle along, it will certainly keep me occupied for a little while. if i find anything of interest ,on what you gave me , I will get back to you about it. Thanks again, I appreciate time and effort you spent on it. very much so- regards James
Just for future reference, if I wanted to post a photo, what demintions? pixil side do i use?

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Lanarkshire / Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« on: Saturday 29 January 22 22:27 GMT (UK)  »
Forfaran thank you for your very quick reply, I was expecting to wait months! for an answer.  I stumbled across a reference to my great uncle Felix Brannigan in another post on a member looking for 'his' Felix Brannigan, who I know was a first cousin of mine. in the exchange of researchers helping him, they had information on 'my' Felix, and a reference to 59 Bairds Square Holytown, which lead me to this thread on Rootschat. And the accompanying photo of the McGogans at 59 Bairds Square , which peeked my interest, as it was on 'my' Felix's  application to join the British Army's Machine Gun Corps in 1918, as his forwarding address.
 Yes you are very correct,  Felix is son to Margaret White who married Nicholas Brannigan in Holytown in 1893. And Felix was born in Glasgow in 1836 .You were right too , of Nicholas being son of Felix Branigan and Mary Doran (Or Maria, or Annie which is on her death certificate)
 You were absolute right of some of the family returning to Ireland, after a period in Glasgow.
What I had said in the query, which by the way, took me 3 attempts to send, like I said first time enquirer,and having to type the message 3 times! as it disappeared on me in the first two failed attempts, and so the 3rd attempt was a bit reduced , because I was fed up at it, but what I had said in one of failed attempts was Felix had joined the Navy in 1913, when his family, Nicholas , Margaret and all the family but Felix, emigrated to Australia in1913. Felix did not want to emigrate to Australia, so chose to stay behind. Felix spent 6 years in Navy, he was discharged and joined up with Machine Gun Corps, in the last few days of the Great War.
He then joined merchant Navy, spending time in America and Canada, before finally coming to Australia in the mid 30's.
  I am trying to find any links with the McGrogan family with my White family in Holytown, which I have not the faintest idea about. I had tried to attach a page of  his Service Record from 1918, showing the McGrogan address, but again Roots chat said it was too large, even after I reduced the size . I am still coming to terms with the idiosyncrasies of the RootChat way of doing things! I promise you, I will learn!!
 So, thank you for your very detailed response,I appreciate your efforts, yet I am still no closer to finding an answer to the McGrogan Connection.
 

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Lanarkshire / Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« on: Saturday 29 January 22 06:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hello JasJer here, This is my first post so pardon any mistakes I make.
 I am interested in post arcmorality made with photo of 59    Square Holytown, which was accompanied by photo of McGrogan family at said address.
My great uncle Felix Brannigan, after 6 years in Royal Navy, in 1918 was signing on to British Army, and he used the McGrogan famiily address to forward on his mail. I wonder does anyone know of any McGrogan family connection to Brannigan or White family. His mother Margaret Brannigan White's family came from Holytown Henry White and Ann McGarry were her parents. They had a big family all the boys were coal miners. In his enlistment to Royal Navy in 1913, he said he was a coal miner before enlistment.


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