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Cavan / Re: Cavan. Schools.
« on: Monday 13 June 22 13:03 BST (UK)  »
Thanks KG. 

I had forgotten about that previous conversation.  Too many names in my head!

LF

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Cavan / Re: Cavan. Schools.
« on: Sunday 12 June 22 23:41 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Aghadowey.

Thanks for this information.  Any idea how I find the names of the missing children who must have died young?

I know the Davies family came originally from Shropshire England and moved around with the father's work which brought them first to Cavan?

BTW:  Ellen my grandmother married Watson Armstong and you were already helping with research into his father James Armstrong (gardener) in Belfast who died before 1901 census and his father Andrew who was a shepherd in Armagh.  I still have had no luck with them.  I even contacted the National Archives in Dublin without success.

LF

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Cavan / Re: Cavan. Schools.
« on: Sunday 12 June 22 23:05 BST (UK)  »
DAVIES family research

Hi is it possible to look up school registers in Cootehill for my grandmother and her brothers attending in the early 1900s.  William, Edwin, John, Ellen, Samuel and Arthur?  The last 3 were born in Cootehill.  They lived in the Gas Works cottages Cootehill and looking through street directories I note their father Edwin was recorded as gas manager and his surname was also spelt Daves.  They may have moved to Monaghan around 1912-14 but I don't know how to check that out.  Any information would be much appreciated.

Looflow

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Armagh / Re: Andrew & James ARMSTRONG
« on: Monday 30 May 22 21:07 BST (UK)  »
I checked through old research I did in 2009.  I never throw anything ou, t!  I found her name on rootsweb world connect posts by one of her sons.  She was called Nesta Ernestine born in Swansea on 19 Apr 1926, her married name was Roach and she died 31 January 2001.  Sorry to give you that wild goose chase when it has nothing to do with Armagh research. :(

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Armagh / Re: Andrew & James ARMSTRONG
« on: Monday 30 May 22 15:52 BST (UK)  »
Hello KG

In relation to Sarah Elizabeth Armstrong who married Walter Leonard, I think they also had another daughter Ernestine born in Wales?

LF

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Armagh / Re: Andrew & James ARMSTRONG
« on: Monday 30 May 22 15:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I got the information from Scotlands People about the 2 older brothers born in Scotland.

On a diffferent note searching records in GRONI I also found details of 2 older sisters of my grandmother.  They died aged 10wks and almost 2yrs.  That solved the mystery of the number of children born on the 1911 census although looking at the actual form the number has been overwritten so could be 8 or 9.

Thanks
Looflow

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Armagh / Re: Andrew & James ARMSTRONG
« on: Saturday 28 May 22 17:55 BST (UK)  »
William Watson Armstrong was my paternal grandfather,  His first wife died and left one son Wesley?James who lived with different relatives most of his life because my grandfather's work took him round Ireland.  He remarried in 1933 - to Ellen Eva Davies in Antrim at the Gasworks where her father worked.  There was a big age gap between them as he was born in 191 and she in 1902 in Co Cavan.  I have only got handwritten details of their marriage.  They had 1 son, my dad William Edwin in 1934.

My grandfather (Watty) also went to work in Leeds with the SWCS and was an ARP during the war. 

Thanks for you help - I am trying to compile a booklet for my father's birthday on 8 June so everything is gratefully accepted.

Looflow

PS:  My son is taking me to see the Cliffs of Moher in the summer.

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Armagh / Re: Andrew & James ARMSTRONG
« on: Thursday 26 May 22 13:30 BST (UK)  »
Hello from Newtownards

Thank you so much - my dad was just asking this morning about the son Andrew Armstrong who lived at Knocknagoney, Belfast.  We didn't know about his 2 daughters, so that gives me more to find out.  I am delighted you found the 2 deceased children of James & Eliz Emma (Joseph and Sarah - do you think her second name might be Lena rather than Lind).  I had found out about Minnie as she was the twin sister of my grandfather.

Any luck with James Armstrong's birth/death or his father the shepherd!

Looflow


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Armagh / Andrew & James ARMSTRONG
« on: Wednesday 25 May 22 15:48 BST (UK)  »
Hello I am trying to find out about my Armstrong relatives who were in Armagh in the 1800s.  My great-great-great grandfather Andrew Armstrong is listed as a shepherd on his son James' marriage details.  My 88yr old father says the Armstrongs were sheep stealers from Langholm (border rievers) but I do not know if they were the first generation to come over to NI.  I have no address for him and on searching in Griffiths Valuations I found several Andrew Armstrongs but do not know which is the correct one.  Is it possible to find out the name of his wife and any children other than James.  James married Elizabeth Emma Crozier on 1 Jan 1879 in the United Presbyterian Church, Portadown.  I do not know his date of birth it just says 21 which could be older.   They lived in Charles St and had their first 2 children born in Lurgan and later moved to Belfast.  Her father Robert was a weaver.

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