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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Address?
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 09:56 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Leon47 on Tuesday 29 April 25 09:45 BST (UK)

... I still can't find Feniston/Finiston Terrace anywhere in lennonwylie, although I did spot 'Finiston National Schools' in Como Terrace, on Old Park Road. I would have been good to find it.

Thanks everyone.


It does appear in some later directories (listed under the Oldpark Road), for example:

https://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/nopcomplete1901.htm


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Address?
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 09:50 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Leon47 on Tuesday 29 April 25 09:45 BST (UK)

... I've found it now on the GRONI street directory of 1895, thanks gaffy. Although it's Finiston Terrace on that.


It gets both spellings in various sources, in the 1895 street directory I looked at (NIDirect) it's a double "NN".


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Address?
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 09:35 BST (UK)  »
John Dale Lowans' birth in 1871, parents William Lowans and Margaret Hoy/Hoey?:

https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1871/03301/2210010.pdf

Added: I can't find a birth record for Thomas, so I'm guessing his age was slightly understated in his marriage record and that his birth was before civil registration of same started in 1864.  But for now, James Lowans and Ann Dickey remain a possibility for his parents.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Address?
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 09:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Leon47 on Monday 28 April 25 22:06 BST (UK)

... The marriages seem to be within the same family - the husbands were maybe cousins?


I've literally only glanced at this, but a newspaper obituary for John Dale Lowans in 1935 points the family history back to Newry.  There's a Newry marriage of a William Lowans and Mary Hoy (Hence the Hoy middle name for John Dale Lowans' daughter Jane?) in 1868, also a Newry marriage for a James Lowans and Ann Dickey in 1848, in both cases the groom's father was recorded as John Lowans a shoemaker, so just a possibility to follow up.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Address?
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 09:05 BST (UK)  »
I initially thought that John Dale Lowan's occupation was carpenter, but looking at the birth of his daughter Jane Hoy Lowans the following year, it's more likely to be compositor:

https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1895/02208/1833889.pdf

So maybe John Dale Lowans and James E. Adams worked together.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Address?
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 08:57 BST (UK)  »
The nearest street directory I can find online (1895) shows a compositor named J.E. Adams at that address, I imagine that is the same person as James E. Adams who appears as a witness in Thomas Lowan's marriage.

https://streetdirectories.proni.gov.uk/


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Address?
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 08:51 BST (UK)  »
4 Finniston Terrace (on the Oldpark Road).


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Roscommon / Re: Looking for Strannane
« on: Monday 28 April 25 21:01 BST (UK)  »
There are various references online and in newspapers to "Stranuane, Arigna", including Gilhooly references with that address, so I suspect that is what is written here.

Some of the references confirm that it was/is a townland. Other spellings I've seen are Stranauane, Stranawane and Shananuane (the last one in the tithe applotment books). Here's what the "loganm.ie" website shows:
https://www.logainm.ie/en/43077

Anyhow, I've seen enough to be confident that Srananooan and (in your photo) Stranuane - and variants - are one and the same. For example, when Maggie Kate Gilhooly was born to Bartly Gilhooly and Margaret McKenna in 1899, note the spelling of the address:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1899/02047/1783627.pdf

Which reads across to the same folk in Srananooan the 1901 and 1911 Ireland censuses.

Added:  I should have mentioned, an initial "Str" is a known development of Irish "Sr" in English. For example, I used to live in a village in County Antrim called Straid, which comes from the Irish for street - sráid.


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Cavan / Re: Casserly, Smith, Kelly and Carolan Families - CAVAN
« on: Sunday 27 April 25 20:49 BST (UK)  »
I am not researching these folk, but I can respond with the following information anyway:

- 13 July 1889, at Clifferna RC Church (St. Michael's in Larah RC parish?), Mary Casserly living in the townland of Carrickacroman, daughter of Thomas a farmer, married Patrick Farrelly living in the neighbouring townland of Carrickallen: 
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1889/10751/5920641.pdf

- 31 January 1891, at Larah RC Church, Anne Casserly living in the townland of Carrickacroman, daughter of Thomas a farmer, married Patrick Smith living in the townland of Ratrussan:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1891/10660/5884385.pdf

- 1 November 1893, at Larah RC Church, Bridget Casserly living in the townland of Carrickacroman, daughter of Thomas a farmer, married Terence Smith living in the townland of Ratrussan:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1893/10617/5868101.pdf

Significantly, further to these civil records, note that transcripts of the corresponding church records of marriage I've seen (in a website I subscribe to) additionally and usefully record the identity of the bride's mother in each case, the name recorded being Margaret Kelly.  So a match for the couple you mentioned.

Here is Carrickacroman:
https://www.townlands.ie/cavan/tullygarvey/larah/larah-south/carrickacroman/

Here is a civil birth registration for a Margaret "Casselly" born at Carrickacroman on 27 April 1866 to Thomas Casselly and Margaret Kelly:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1866/03527/2298039.pdf

Likewise a civil birth registration for a Thomas "Casely" born at Carrickacroman on 17 April 1867 to Thomas Casely and Margaret Kelly:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1867/03483/2280308.pdf

The death of Thomas Casserly at Carrickacroman on 30 March 1875 indicates birth c. 1821, if the reported age by the informant Mary Casserly of Carrickacroman was accurate:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1876/020584/7222271.pdf

The death of Margaret Casserly at Carrickacroman in 1 July 1887 indicates birth c. 1837, if the reported age by the informant James Casserly of Carrickacroman (stated as her son) was accurate:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1887/06204/4774480.pdf

The following is a possible candidate for that son James in the 1901 census ...
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cavan/Larah_South/Carrickacroman/1048370/

... and his marriage to Mary Brady in  1893:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1893/10617/5868100.pdf

A search of Griffith's Valuation for the townland of Carrickacroman (local print date of 1857) shows a Thomas Casserly leasing a house, offices and just over 17 acres of land.

https://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=placeSearch


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