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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Sarah Keyland
« on: Monday 30 May 11 03:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi Suzy,

It seems like the Irish populated most of the world following the potato famine - although they were at it before too.

Sarah & James possibly came to Durham to set up home, find work etc, before collecting the other children. Of course, baby Daniel would need to be with his Mum.
Durham, at that time would have had plenty of work in the mines and low cost housing.

As I said, Sarah Agnes could have been born on the trip back to collect the older children.

Regarding John Keylands 1st wife, I had presumed she'd died in childbirth  but couldn't find a record of her death but when I found the passenger lists for Mrs R Keyland travelling between Port Said and England in 1910 & 1920, it made me wonder.
Maybe she left and returned home to Egypt.

I'm researching my husbands tree, he's the "Keyland". He comes via Johns eldest surviving son, Joseph.

Thanks for the information, re: William Keyland, I had wondered if there was a link.
There's also a James, aged 53 - (living with his mother, Mary aged 99) in the same area, in 1851. Mary would have been too old to be the mother of William and Daniel,  though she could have been the Grandmother, making James the uncle.

Irish families are such a problem.

Dawn

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Sarah Keyland
« on: Sunday 29 May 11 07:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi Suzy

I'm pretty new to this, so please bear with me.

I've been researching the Keyland family from Durham/Co Antrim too but through Sarah's brother, John Keyland.

From what I've gathered, Sarah and James Keyland moved from Co Antrim to Durham.
On the 1861 England census, there is a record, in Durham, for Sarah, James and 10mth old baby Daniel.
The two older children (John and Rose) are not in Durham with them. Unfortunately there was a transcription error and it appears as "Heyland".
I presumed Sarah & James returned to Ireland to collect the older children around 1864 and that was when Sarah was born.

As you know, the whole family were in Durham in 1871 but then disappear from the 1881 census,

I have found John Keyland (under the spelling Kyland) at Chatham barracks in 1881, as a soldier but I can't find any of the others.
 
John then went to Egypt, aboard the HMS Monarch (there was some uprising at the time).
It appears he married a local woman, called Rachel Golubzow and they returned to Spennymoor, Durham. (There first child, John Jrs was born there in 1884)

The elder sister, Rose, marries in Durham in 1881 but I can't find her on the census for that year either.

It makes me wonder if they just weren't away from home at census time, as other than John, they all disappear.

I have a query of my own, the HMS Monarch was docked at Port Said, Egypt, at the time John Keyland married Rachel Golubzow.
They returned to England and had a few children.
John then got remarried to a Mary-Ann Harrison in 1887 and states he's a widower. I presumed Rachel had died but I couldn't find a death on the registers.

I've recently found 2 entries in the passenger lists, for Mrs R Keyland, in 1910 and 1920, travelling from Port Said to England.
As its quite a rare name and not only is the initial correct but she's travelling from the place Rachel was born, it seems more than a coincidence.

It seems odd that Johns trips abroad where also at the time Sarah was on her travels.
I wondered if there was any connection

Dawn

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