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Banffshire / Re: Kininvie Mortlach
« on: Sunday 04 May 25 19:20 BST (UK)  »
Alan Boyd thank you for sharing all that. I will apply all the map info to other maps as well. And the newspaper article is amazing. Do you know if there is a local history society for the area>

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Banffshire / Re: Kininvie Mortlach
« on: Sunday 04 May 25 15:48 BST (UK)  »
Forfarian, thank you so much for all the info. I just like to have an idea of where people live. The ancestors are so much more than just names and dates.

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Banffshire / Kininvie Mortlach
« on: Sunday 04 May 25 13:30 BST (UK)  »
I am researching the Cobban family. Jane Cobban, who married first James Grant and then Hugh Craib, had at least 9 children. The birthplace on the civil registration certs is given as Backhill of Kininvie. I would really like to purchase a map of the area. Where exactly is Kininvie in relation to Dufftown?

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Denbighshire / Re: Phillips of Hand Hotel,Llangollen
« on: Friday 02 November 18 18:58 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Kloumann. I will definitely follow it up.

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Denbighshire / Re: Phillips of Hand Hotel,Llangollen
« on: Sunday 14 October 18 11:49 BST (UK)  »
Yes insofar as John Smith lived in Ireland and died in 1866 (I can't find any other death cert that would match) and Abigail married and died following childbirth in 1880. Some of her children were taken into care and sent to Canada as their father became unemployed and could not look after them. My great grandmother Mabel stayed behind, married and had one daughter my grandmother. I have an original letter written to Mabel by an uncle on her father's side in 1906 explaining the family history to her. In it he mentions John Smith but doesn't know what happened to him. I've hit a real brick wall. My gut feeling is that he remained close to the Phillips family and that they are the key to solving the mystery

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Denbighshire / Re: Phillips of Hand Hotel,Llangollen
« on: Saturday 13 October 18 17:38 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Rosie. John Smith would have been aged about 12 in 1862/3. So that's not him in either death cert. Back to the drawing board!

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Denbighshire / Re: Phillips of Hand Hotel,Llangollen
« on: Saturday 13 October 18 14:37 BST (UK)  »
Am following this topic with renewed interest as I am no further on in my research since my last post 4 years ago. John Joseph Smith the grandson of Amey Phillips (nee Richards) has proved impossible to find. I have his birth cert (parents Amey Phillips & John Smith 8th Dec 1850) and he is in a boarding school in the 1861 census. I think that the John Smith in Tranmere Cheshire, with Land Property income is the last record I have for him. With the name John Smith, he is a mystery man. Help!

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Down / Re: Family of Sir Rollo GILLESPIE
« on: Tuesday 08 November 16 18:45 GMT (UK)  »
Re KVG's Gillespie and Butler family tree, I have Mary Eleanor Sheppard and Henry John Gillespie in my family tree too. I am not connected to the Gillespies but to Mary Eleanor Sheppard. She was a first cousin of my great grandfather Henry Goddington Sheppard. I too discovered a Robert Rollo Gillespie born in Roscrea 1916. I think there must be a connection there to the other Robert Rollo. Why call your child after a well known figure from the past?

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Galway / Re: Fanny Kenny anf Father John Kenny
« on: Sunday 25 September 16 19:38 BST (UK)  »
Annafinney I am researching the descendants of Henry Kenny, son of Henry Kenny and Sarah Geraghty. Do you have any more information about Henry senior and Sarah? Were they from Eyrecourt or did they end up there from somewhere else? Without church records I am really stuck. How many children did they have? I only know about them because a family member told me but they have not further information.

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