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Antrim / Re: John Mays/Mayes/Maze in Magheragall and surrounding help please
« on: Thursday 18 April 24 14:23 BST (UK) »
Amazing! Thank you so much everyone for taking the time to look things up and comment - there's lots here for me to go away and investigate especially the John that died 1875 Island Kelly as well as the Annie Mayes who died 1868.
From The Belfast Newsletter dated July 24th 1908 I've found a notice of a John Mays who died the previous day at Upper Frank Street and references his interment at the City Cemetry but that date doesn't match the 1875 Island Kelly one mentioned above or my great-great-grandfather John who died in 1913.
Through a long Google search I found a book in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin called 'The Irish Mays : a family history by Michael Kinchin Smith' self-published by the author in the 90s. One of the librarians there is amazing and is ordering the book in for me so she can take a look at the contents and see if it contains any of the people I've mentioned here. Which is great as I'm based in the south of England and would otherwise have to fly over just to read a book in the library
(which I might end up doing if it's in any way helpful)
Thanks again and all your help very much appreciated!
From The Belfast Newsletter dated July 24th 1908 I've found a notice of a John Mays who died the previous day at Upper Frank Street and references his interment at the City Cemetry but that date doesn't match the 1875 Island Kelly one mentioned above or my great-great-grandfather John who died in 1913.
Through a long Google search I found a book in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin called 'The Irish Mays : a family history by Michael Kinchin Smith' self-published by the author in the 90s. One of the librarians there is amazing and is ordering the book in for me so she can take a look at the contents and see if it contains any of the people I've mentioned here. Which is great as I'm based in the south of England and would otherwise have to fly over just to read a book in the library

Thanks again and all your help very much appreciated!