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Montgomeryshire / Re: mctavish in forden welshpool
« on: Wednesday 14 April 10 11:54 BST (UK) »
so your dad is my nans first cousin,my nan is still kicking lol shes 85 i will show her this info
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Montgomeryshire / Re: mctavish in forden welshpool
« on: Tuesday 13 April 10 10:23 BST (UK) »
great news,i would certainley like that info.my nan new were her dad came from but not her grandparents cant wait to tell her,
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Armed Forces / patrick joseph ryan
« on: Friday 02 April 10 22:09 BST (UK) »
i am looking into my grandfathers naval service record during world war two,i know a few ships he served on hms,hotspur,scout,truelove,vanquisher,fortune and eskimo,but thats about it,any other info would be most helpfull.
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Montgomeryshire / Re: mctavish in forden welshpool
« on: Tuesday 23 March 10 12:56 GMT (UK) »
bingo ,my nan is 85 she told me her dad was born in liverpool,there was two marriages.my nan s mother was alice m hughes,we live in barnsley.this has to be them,so donalds father was from argyll and bute in scotland.name john mctavish
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Montgomeryshire / Re: mctavish in forden welshpool
« on: Monday 22 March 10 20:53 GMT (UK) »
thats my great grandad donald william mctavish,i wonder were he come from having a name like that ,my nan told me he built the railway line in welshpool so he could be from out of the area,i would say scotland.
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Kent / Re: george king
« on: Monday 22 March 10 20:46 GMT (UK) »
thats great work how can i be certain its definatley,my great grandfather 
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Kent / Re: george king
« on: Monday 22 March 10 10:39 GMT (UK) »
i got him on a census return in galway in 1911 and he was 56 years old.i still have an 85 year old uncle alive and he told me about the maidstone connection
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Kent / george king
« on: Sunday 21 March 10 16:52 GMT (UK) »
my great great grandfather was a man named george king believed to be from the maidstone area,i think he was in the british army and he went to serve in ireland in the 1870s and finally settled in galway ireland with a local girl,any help on the king family would be apprieciated
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Galway / Re: RYAN-Galway
« on: Thursday 21 January 10 03:12 GMT (UK) »
i was digging around and found a marriage entry for martin ryan and bridgette butler in 1875,seems they werent galway people,martin was from borrisoleigh in tipperary and his wife from pallas in tipperary.there are thousands of ryans and butlers there.intresting.hope theyre the right ones