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Ireland / Re: HELP info in Ireland
« on: Thursday 19 March 09 21:45 GMT (UK)  »
Thats fantastic, I'd seen one or two of those images, but the text you found was excellent.  Just the sort of thing I'd been looking for.  Its disturbing to think that my ancestors had to live like that, but i'm hoping my Thomas was one of the ones refered to as working! He was noted in the Census as working, a Journeyman Shoemaker, and i believe journeyman meant time served as an apprentice and fully qualified.  Such a harsh life though, Cowgate.
Thanks for posting these up for me, you're right, very informative!
Solly

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cant read this, please can someone help?
« on: Thursday 19 March 09 13:56 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks.  Johns father was another John, i know that much.  But i hadnt spotted the Roman Catholic part!  Didnt know there were Catholics in the family, i'd only seen Church of Scotland so far.  Thanks.  The Chapman details are frustrating though arent they.  Cant go back further with her until i decipher this!  I've emailed ScotlandsPeople, fingers crossed they might help out.
Thanks again everyone!  I'm new to this site today, and already everyones being a great help!

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Ireland / Re: HELP info in Ireland
« on: Thursday 19 March 09 13:51 GMT (UK)  »
Oh, just out of interest TunjiLees.  Were your Irish ancestors located in Cowgate Edinburgh?  Thats where mine went, and from what i can gather Cowgate was a multitude of slums full of Irish!  Annoyingly i cant find any history regarding what life was like for these slum occupants in the mid 1800s.  Plenty of history available for Cowgate, but nothing on what these people had to live with.

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Ireland / Re: HELP info in Ireland
« on: Thursday 19 March 09 13:47 GMT (UK)  »
I think i'm in the same boat as TunjiLees.  My G.G.Great Grandfather Thomas Prior is detailed throughout 1851 to death in 1875 in Edinburgh, but I cant get any further back as he was born in Ireland (no county details) and his parents were Patrick Prior crofter and Rose nee McLaughlin.  I've no idea where in Ireland, but it would have been about 1812 or so that Thomas was born.  I guess Crofters were too poor to be notable enough to be documented.
 :(

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cant read this, please can someone help?
« on: Thursday 19 March 09 13:32 GMT (UK)  »
Doh! didnt know you could ask Scotlands People for a better image, i've been screwing my eyes up at this one for days....  Thanks.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cant read this, please can someone help?
« on: Thursday 19 March 09 13:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
This is the marriage certificate for my great grand father, and i can bearly read any of it!  Can someone please decipher it for me?
The lines to read relate to John Oliver and Elizabeth Chapman.
I'd like to know everything it says, especially about Elizabeth.
Thanks!

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