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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: 23andme
« on: Saturday 17 July 10 10:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi Stephen

Just thinking about taking the plunge for a DNA test. Who did you get yours done by?

I'm female and wondering if the company you went with would be recommended for the maternal line? What do you think?

Thanks

Vanessa

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Down / Re: Ballykeel Artifinny / Gilligan / wills
« on: Thursday 03 December 09 22:57 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Otto - very evocative description! I'll do some more research.

Hunter

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Down / Ballykeel Artifinny / Gilligan / wills
« on: Wednesday 02 December 09 20:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Does anyone know any details of what Ballykeel Artifinny is or was like in the mid - late 1880s?

My great grandmother Emma b circa 1843 was from there and I believe these are her male relations

Surname     Forename     Townland     Parish     County
Gilligan    Isaac    Ballykeel Artifinny    Hillsborough    Down (farmer)
Gilligan    Thomas    Ballykeel Artifinny    Hillsborough    Down

They are mentioned above in Griffiths valuation - would any records still exist and if so where?

I'm related to and in touch with Moominmama by the way!

Thanks

Hunter

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Midlothian / Re: Edinburgh marriage in a Cottage
« on: Sunday 15 November 09 13:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much - this is just what I hoped for. Being able to see the street as it is now on Streetview is wonderful.

Emma, the bride, was living at Number 4 North Richmond Street, Edinburgh, at the time of the marriage. She is recorded as a spinster, age 22, and I did wonder if she was in service (she was from Belfast so might have been?), and whether Glenalmond Cottage was something to do with her employer? Or the Hussars? I'm clutching at straws I know, but having just found these ancestors, and the new Edinburgh connection I'm itching to get an idea of their lives.

Many thanks

Hunter.

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Midlothian / Re: Edinburgh marriage in a Cottage
« on: Saturday 14 November 09 16:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all so much for these very useful replies. Yes I think it is Sciennes Hill! Is it still there?

Hunter

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Midlothian / Edinburgh marriage in a Cottage
« on: Thursday 12 November 09 21:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I've just received my Great Grandparents' marriage certificate and wonder if anyone knows why they might have got married in a cottage. The wording under 'where married' reads "Glenalmond Cottage, (S******? - I can't read this word) Hill, Edinburgh, after banns according to the forms of the Scottish Episcopal Church". It's dated May 25 1865, with the marriage registered on May 29 at Edinburgh.

I don't know whether the fact that the groom was in the Hussars has any relevance - his address is given as Piershill Barracks.

Any info gratefully received.

Hunter

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Armed Forces / 4th Hussars - troopship Serapia
« on: Sunday 08 November 09 18:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Does anyone have access to, or know if I can get internet access to, the passenger list for the troopship Serapia which took the 4th Hussars to India (Meerut) on 15 October 1867? I think that my great grandfather Private Frederick Smith, gt grandmother Emma (formerly Gilligan) and possibly a child, James William who I have found as being born in Ireland (Hillsbrough) on 13 Dec 1867 but also on a subsequent census as born Newcastle upon Tyne.

Frederick and Emma had a baby born in Meerut (Susanna b 1870/71) who died in Canterbury in March 1872 on their return and it would be wonderful to find any information about them in India and the passenger list for their return too. I've only recently discovered this bit of my family history (Frederick died at some point after leaving the Hussars having moved to Wales, and Emma either married or moved in with someone called James Brown and we always believed him to be our great grandfather).

Thanks for any pointers - I live in the North of England so a visit to Kew isn't possible at the moment. I've contacted the Queens Royal Hussars HQ in London but not had any luck with getting any info from them, or from Easbourne Museum.

Hunter

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Durham / Re: Birtley Birth of Brown c1846
« on: Wednesday 04 February 09 15:27 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for all the help - I'll pursue the Lamesley one.


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Durham / Re: Birtley Birth of Brown c1846
« on: Sunday 01 February 09 22:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

This is a fantastic resource - I've not seen it before.

Thanks

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