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Kildare / Re: Help needed RE Rowans and Nolans in Athy
« on: Wednesday 19 June 13 23:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi there - no, I only have a little photocopy my Mum picked up from Athy stating the names of her grandparents but sadly no marriage details. If this is something you'd be able to do for me you have no idea how grateful I would be - I'd love more than anything to find more info about my Mum's family for her as she is very sick at the moment so it would be a great boost for her and a wonderful surprise if I could give her a bit of her I family tree for her birthday - it's just so hard researching anything when I'm in England - thank you so much for your kind offer  :)

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Kildare / Re: Help needed RE Rowans and Nolans in Athy
« on: Wednesday 19 June 13 22:36 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that L&F - much appreciated. I'd spotted Mary in the marriage records and was intrigued - guess I'll have to wait until the cert arrives before I know more - am hopping from foot to foot with impatience! :)

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Kildare / Re: Help needed RE Rowans and Nolans in Athy
« on: Monday 17 June 13 22:42 BST (UK)  »
Oooh! now that's a very interesting entry and one I managed to miss - thank you for that - it looks like a strong possibility and yet another spelling of the pesky Rowan name!  :)

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Kildare / Re: Help needed RE Rowans and Nolans in Athy
« on: Monday 17 June 13 22:17 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Shane, i'll do just that.  I do wish it was easier to order certs online - I'll have to go down the paper route, I guess - just a bit reluctant to put my credit card details on a form in the post but needs must!   :-\

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Kildare / Help needed RE Rowans and Nolans in Athy
« on: Monday 17 June 13 21:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help me in my search for my Irish GGrandparents as I'm really stuck.

My grandfather was James Joseph Nolan born 1913 in Athy. I have a print out of his birth details from the parish records in Athy when my mother visited there. This details his parents as
James Nolan and Elizabeth Rouan. I know that my grandfather had a 1 sister only, known as Molly.

I found a 1911 census entry for a James and Elizabeth Nolan with a daughter called Mary, living in Athy. This states that James was 30, Elizabeth 28, Mary 1. All Catholic, all born in Athy.

I found my GGGrandfather James on the 1901 census, living in Athy but am unable to locate any mention at all of Elizabeth anywhere.

I know that the name Rowan has many different spellings. I found James Nolan and 'Eliza' Rowan's marriage record for 1908. I have searched endlessly on all variations of the name, even looking through all Elizabeths and Elizas in Kildare to no avail.

I did find a baptism entry on Rootsireland for an Elizabeth Rouen in Athy but this was in 1876 which would put the Elizabeth I found on the 1911 census the wrong age (by 7 years).

I'd really like to find the names of Elizabeth's parents if possible but I'm at a dead end. I will order the marriage certificate from Ireland for Elizabeth and James to give the name of her father but wondered in the meantime if anyone out there was possibly able to help? I'd be really grateful as my Mum knows next to nothing about her Irish ancestry as her father was a secretive man (he arrived one day back to their house in England with a small Irish child 12 years old and announced she was my Mum's cousin and she lived with the family for years but he would give no further details, for example!).

Yours hopefully,

M  :)


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Scotland / Re: Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« on: Saturday 18 September 10 22:31 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again - I have clearly been too eager in my searches on SP and totally missed that very important fact RE missing records!

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Scotland / Re: Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« on: Saturday 18 September 10 21:46 BST (UK)  »
Oh! I didn't know that not all marriages were recorded (not sure what an OPR is sorry).
I don't have her death cert as there are too many Mary Fishers in Carlisle and I'm not ordering certificates for all of them to see which one it is  :-\

Thanks ever so much for taking the time to reply - much appreciated.

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Scotland / Mystery RE maiden name on birth cert
« on: Saturday 18 September 10 20:50 BST (UK)  »
I'm not sure if anyone can point me in the right direction with a query I've had outstanding for the last year and which I can't seem to solve.
My ancestor is James Fisher born in Scotland 1790 approx. He married a Marion and I have them living in Carlisle and appearing on census there. I searched Scotland's people for Marion's surname and found the only Marion (or Mary and other similar names) who married a James Fisher was a Marion Russell in Ayrshire.
However, on the birth certificate of James and Marion's son Joseph it states that Marion's maiden name is Anderson. I can find no record at all of a James Fisher marrying an Anderson. Could this have something to do with Marion keeping her mother's surname? is that possibly a common thing with Scottish tradition etc?
I have conducted lots and lots of searches on SP to try and piece together how Marion Anderson and Marion Russell could be the same person - there are certainly a lot of Andersons and Russells in Muirkirk (the area of my search) and I can find tenuous connections between the families but no definitive proof.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated  :)

MC

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Ayrshire / Re: Help needed re Fisher/Russell/Anderson
« on: Tuesday 24 November 09 12:45 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jane

Thanks ever so much for that! I shall drop you a PM and we can compare notes  :)

Mel

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