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Tipperary / Re: Houlihan
« on: Wednesday 18 March 09 13:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi.

It maybe a long shot, but tracing Irish family links you have to explore all possibilities!!

I wonder, Your James Houlihan married a Margaret Spencer of Clonmel. Do you have anymore information regarding Margarets parents?

My gt, gt grandparents Henry and Anne (Brophy) Spencer left Ireland for England in 1854 and the name Margaret features in their children and the generations following. I don't know of their exact Irish origins, hence I'm exploring any possible links.

Cheers. Spencer

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Tipperary / Re: William Beard
« on: Monday 16 March 09 11:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Dawn. 

It is possible that my neighbour could have been born about 1906, he certainly would have been in his 70s. I recall that he was religious and was planning a visit to the 'Holy Lands', has he referred to Isreal, in the year I left Wolverhampton. I liked him alot and took a picture of him before I left. I think his address would have been 5, Burleigh Road if you wish to chase up any possible connections with your tree in future.

Good Luck.
Spencer

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Tipperary / Re: William Beard
« on: Wednesday 11 March 09 12:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Dawn. I was just reading your Beard post and wondered if a Bill Beard was in your line? When I was a student in Wolverhampton in the mid 1980s I lived next door to Mr Beard in Burleigh Road. Penn Fields. Wolverhampton. He was such a nice bloke and had a little dog by the name of Beauty.

Spencer

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Laois (Queens) / Re: Cemeteries in Laois
« on: Friday 27 February 09 12:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hi seanmac.

When you get a moment whould you see if there are any spencer's or brophy's on your headstone list for co Laois.

regards

Spencer59

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Laois (Queens) / Spencer & Brophy Families in Laois
« on: Friday 27 February 09 12:08 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking into the origins of my Great Great Grandparents Henry and Anne (Brophy) Spencer who came from Ireland. Henry was born about 1811 and Anne around 1821. Both were of the Roman Catholic religion.

There were a family of Brophy's who were Stonemasons who moved from Roseanalis. Co Laois to Vicarstown in the same County. This was at the same time as the canal was been built there. My gt gt grandad Henry Spencer was also a stonemason and records show that a Henry Spencer also lived in Roseanalis. He married Ann Brophy around 1835 and she may have been part of the above family?

Around 1854, along with their children Susan, Lucy, George, Mary, Ann, Ellen, Margaret and Elizabeth, the family sailed to Liverpool from Newry and eventually settled in the North of England where Agnes (Preston), Julia, Henry jnr (Blackburn) and Joseph (Bradford) were born.

If anyone has any information on the above family I would be pleased to know.


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