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Messages - BILL H

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US Lookup Requests / Irish Emigrants
« on: Thursday 25 March 10 19:46 GMT (UK)  »
Could anyone tell me if the Irish tenants of Lord Lansdowne's estate in Kerry, who were fleeing the potato famine, joined the ''Guy Mannering'' at Cobh (later to be called Queenstown) or did they board the ''Guy Mannering'' at Liverpool, having been shipped over to Liverpool from Ireland?
BILL H

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Rev Lewis Morris Pease
« on: Thursday 25 March 10 19:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi jorose and dettori28,
thanks for your help on this matter. I think I have all the corect information that I was looking for.
Many thanks to you both.
BILL H

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US Lookup Requests / Rev Lewis Morris Pease
« on: Thursday 25 March 10 15:24 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching Rev Lewis Morris Pease who together with his wife, founded the Five Points Mission in New York City circa 1850. Nowhere can I find his wife's Christian name/names.
I wonder if someone has access to US census returns for New York City 1850 in the hope that it would reveal this information.
Many thanks,
BILL H 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with reading this
« on: Wednesday 01 April 09 09:34 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Magrat on Sunday 29 March 09 14:58 BST (UK)
Can anyone help with reading the surname of William and also what sort of glass cutter is it?
Hi Magrat,
Flint Glass was introduced in the beginning of the 19th century and is used in the manufacture of scientific lenses.
BILL H

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US Lookup Requests / Re: SS Guy Mannering May 1849
« on: Saturday 21 June 08 15:34 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to aghadowey and LissaM for the info. Both very useful.
BILL H

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US Lookup Requests / SS Guy Mannering May 1849
« on: Saturday 21 June 08 14:54 BST (UK)  »
Could anyone tell me where the Irish emigrants boarded the SS Guy Mannering in May 1849.
Did they first travel to Liverpool en route for  New York or did the SS Guy Mannering put into Cobh after leaving Liverpool?
If they traveled first to Liverpool, does anyone know on which ship they sailed to Liverpool?
Finally does anyone know how they would make the journey from Kenmare to Cobh?

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Norfolk / Re: Dennis Blower
« on: Friday 14 March 08 14:45 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that Newfster,
you are absolutely right. All the time I have been researching this family I hadn't noticed Frances and Walter on Boston and the other three on Downham Market.
A classic case of jumping to the wrong conclusion.
Thanks for steering me in the right direction.
BILL H

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Norfolk / Re: Dennis Blower
« on: Friday 14 March 08 14:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Newfster,
you have touched on something there that I couldn't understand.  The older boys as you rightly say appear in the entries for Downham Market Workhouse, but the whole family appear in the Boston Union entries.  John, Edward and Jemima appear on one page and Frances and George Walter, who at the time is only 3 months old, appear on another.
In my research, I have come across it before where there has been a double entry for the same person at different addresses indeed my grandfather appears in the 1901 census as being at home and also at the home of his mother in law.
Even though this can be irritating at times, it's what makes genealogy so interesting.
Thanks again,
BILL H

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Norfolk / Re: Dennis Blower
« on: Friday 14 March 08 13:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Newfster,
Thanks for your reply.
I have all the information on Frances and the children i.e. time in the workhouse and subsequently, her marriage to Robert Harrod, who was my great grandfather.
It is the elusive Dennis in whom I am interested. He seems to disappear after the 1851 census.  I can't find any record of his death. Assuming he was the father of Walter George, born in Jan. 1861 then he must have been around at the time of Frances conceiving which would be circa April 1860. But this is as far as I can go.  It is significant that the enumerator for the 1861 census (Boston Union Workhouse) records Frances as married so again it is fair to assume that Dennis is not dead at this time.
Thanks for your interest.
BILL H

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