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Tipperary / Re: If anyone needs help in Tipperary
« on: Monday 31 August 09 13:04 BST (UK)  »
Brilliant, thanks Pete, I found the grandfather and Great grandparents within minutes. The Irish 1911 census is also much better than the English ones with far more details particularly about the houses they lived in.

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Look Up Request - New York Passenger lists 1851-1859
« on: Friday 28 August 09 17:13 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Merjones for this fascinating extra bit. Perhaps this relates to the son William James Coult or the previous passenger list info couldn't have been my William. i.e. passenger list didn't have him coming into America until 1859 but the trail to Utah was in 1854. Sorry to be a pain but was there only one William Coult coming into America between 1851-9 ?

Thanks again.  Jo

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Look Up Request - New York Passenger lists 1851-1859
« on: Thursday 27 August 09 09:24 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much Merjones for looking both up. The Cemetery records fit with what I know but I'm a little concerned about the passenger lists missing the son William James and stating their birthplace as Scotland as they were definitly born in England. Is it possible this bit was just wrong on the records and the son followed them out or could there have been two families travelling around the same time ?

Any ideas on how I would find out what their lives were like in America and when they became Mormons ?

Sorry...so many questions !!!   Yours gratefully, Jo

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US Lookup Requests / Look Up Request - New York Passenger lists 1851-1859
« on: Wednesday 26 August 09 22:13 BST (UK)  »
I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to look up my great (x4) grandfather on the passenger lists to New York leaving England at some point between 1851 and 1859 please.
His name was William Coult (born 1801) and he took his son William James (born 1830) with him and I suspect he took his second wife Mary with him and possibly daughter Anna (b.1838) too.
Father & son ended up in Salt Lake City and the son appears to have married two women on the same day in 1859 so I suspect they were Mormons.
Any help would be greatly appreciated both on the passenger lists and whether they are likely to have become Mormons in rural Essex or converted when they arrived.
Yours in hopeful anticipation, Jo

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Tipperary / Re: If anyone needs help in Tipperary
« on: Monday 24 August 09 22:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi Ann Marie,

I've just started researching my O'Farrell name and I have only a few details from an elderly relative. A Thomas Joseph O'Farrell was born around 1892 near Roscrea his father's name was Edward and mother was Mary Ellen. There was a large number of children a lot of whom went to America. I understand the family owned a farm called 'Beha Glos' near Roscrea and the grandparents (Michael & Mary) are buried in a churchyard in a tiny village sounding like ' Cooraganeen'. If you can help at all or at least point this novice (particulalry on the Irish side !) in the right direction I would be very grateful.

Kind Regards,

Jo

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Official Workhouse Addresses post 1904
« on: Thursday 05 February 09 14:46 GMT (UK)  »
Oh that's great and thanks for your welcome too. My Grandmother was told by her brother, as an adult, that she had been born in a workhouse and this story was supported by her childhood memory of her father telling her that her birth had brought him good luck as he got a job. If it turns out her mother was just there using it as a hospital it will be a shame she died not knowing the truth. I suppose the LMA will have the records ? The other website you mentioned I assume is the facsinating Workhouse one run by a Peter ?

Thanks again. 

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Official Workhouse Addresses post 1904
« on: Thursday 05 February 09 13:19 GMT (UK)  »
My Grandmother was born in a workhouse in 1908 but the birth certificate shows an address of 77 Bridport Road, Edmonton UD. I understand this is just an official address given on birth certificates after 1904 but does anyone know what workhouse in London this relates to ? She believed she was born at either Bethnal Green or Homerton Workhouse but her family lived around Tottenham at the time.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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