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Antrim / Re: Comann na mBan in Belfast
« on: Thursday 27 January 22 09:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hi heywood,

Thanks for the advice, I have reported it to the moderator  :)

I've had a brief look at those resources that you posted before, but I'm just going through them more in depth with no luck just yet!

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Antrim / Re: Comann na mBan in Belfast
« on: Wednesday 26 January 22 22:19 GMT (UK)  »
Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this thread....

I am currently trying to look look into the life of one of my great aunts. She is supposed to have been a member of the Comann na mBan in Belfast during the 1920s but I have no idea how to start investigating this. Does anybody have any suggestions? I have a few snippets of information, but nothing so useful that it has produced anything in a few Google searches.

I have also been looking at this website: https://www.militaryarchives.ie/en/collections/online-collections but there is not very much information about the Belfast branches on there.

Many thanks in advance!

SorKir

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Kirker Family
« on: Wednesday 26 January 22 22:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again!

Good to meet you Fred21 - I am the great Granddaughter of Peter Sylvester, so William Kirker's great-great granddaughter?

Thank you for your reply also, Karen, I am related to the first William Kirker that you mentioned in your list, although sadly, I cannot seem to get past him. I will try to find your tree on ancestry too as I have just uploaded mine on there as well.

Thanks again for everyone's help - I live in hope that the mystery of William Kirker can still be cracked!

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Kirker Family
« on: Monday 17 January 22 11:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi!

Thank you so much for all of these! The wills and army records in particular are incredibly interesting and I have never seen them before!

I am not too sure about the link with Sarah and Alexander Kirker (will try to pursue this in case - but I believe we had thought that his parents were William Kirker and Mary Brown as I think they are named on his marriage certificate?). The problem is mainly regarding his birth as he claims he was born in a place that didn't really exist at that point in time! My Grandfather travelled to Ballarat in Australia and tried to do some research and could turn up nothing on William. The local historical society helped out and couldn't find anything, but they said this wasn't surprising as there were virtually no white settlers in the area around 1836/37 which is when he claims he was born in Buninyong :(

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Kirker Family
« on: Thursday 13 January 22 18:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

This is quite literally my very first post on here. I signed up for an account just because I found this thread!

I too am a William Kirker descendant (great-great-granddaughter I think?)! I have just received all of the research that my Grandparents did into the different family trees and am trying to progress things where they got stuck.

I realise that this thread was started in 2012(?), but does anybody have anymore suggestions about how I could keep trying to track down William?

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