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Thank you JJ. I have sent a message to Carol nee Bristow. Really appreciate this speedy response.

Thank you. Will try this.

You have me searching out my FH files on Wiley/Mellon part of the family. Rootschat were very helpful I see at the time. They gave Matilda Wiley's father as John Wiley, and this was recorded in the Civil marriage registration. Apparently missed from the church record. I had another theory which led to the Ormsbys and Lindsays of Cork, but I now believe this to be ERROR on my part, but at least clarified this part of the tree.

I'll try and update my tree for you to view, and include the remainder of Agnes Jane Mellon, my great grandmother's siblings. She married Charles Martin in Magherafelt, N.Ireland in 1883. They had 5 children when they went to Scotland to work in the mines in about 1900. My GF William Martin was the oldest of the children. Jane had another 4 children in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and some died very young. She also died at about age 42 (this is all from memory just now), leaving Charles with a number of children. He re-married within a year or so, and had another 6 children! We met one of his grandchildren from the second marriage, but no photos became available of Jane nee Mellon.
Regards Joseph Wiley - it seems I got the list of Jane's siblings from the IGI including Joseph, and have had another look on the free search. The only Joseph is one whose estimated year of birth 1844 would fit, had apparently moved to America, and died in Chicago on 23 Oct 1917. He was a Ticket Agent with Eco RR.
Regards Robert Mellon's father - John Mellon - I can find only one entry. This is in the 'Ireland, Landed Estate Court Files, 1850-1885. There is limited info in the free search. You need to subscibe to request a copy, which I didn't want to do just now. But as his occupation on robert's marriage cert was 'farmer' it's quite likely he had land to leave. There is a farm where my grandparents William and Jane nee Haggarty Martin lived. This was in County Antrim and there was some hint that maybe it belonged to the family.
There was a lot of coming and going between Ireland and Scotland, depending on work etc. and our family likewise. My dad was born in Airdrie, but his dad was born in Ireland, and returned there I think when my dad was in his teens. he went with them, and always loved it, and met my mum over there. She was on a holiday from Coatbridge. I am now rambling ...!  Irish documentation can be hard to track down, but ...
We'll get there! And it's lovely to have a Mellon/Wiley connection. THANK YOU for contacting. It will be nice when I can email.
June

I'll look forward to your photo of William, and sort out one or two of our families. At the bottom of this message square there's an arrow for attachments. Might work ok. I have a photo of a pipe band in N.Ireland and my dad had written on the back James Mellon. Probably the James you have with a date 1868. He turned up with the family in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland. I didn't know about your William, or Margaret.

I'll look forward to more contact and sending you the info. We're busy with village digs which has taken over the summer!! I'm looking forward to completion - just 3 more digs to do!

I've managed to attach 3 photos with this message. The one of my mum and dad was in the 1950s soon after we'd moved from Coatbridge, Lanarks to east London. Both now deceased. I have one brother James Haggarty Martin.
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Does anyone share this ancestor of mine? Bruce was my grandmother's brother and born in Lanarkshire, Scotland. At 13 he was working in the coal pit in Greenend, but in 1891 census, he was a professional footballer for Derby. He signed the death cert for my great grandmother Mary Chalmers nee Roy who died in 1904. I have the info from somewhere that about this time he was in the Merchant Navy and in Tyneside.
I would love to hear from anyone who may have this connection. THANK YOU.