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Messages - gaffy

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Ireland / Re: Patrick Quirk
« on: Saturday 27 December 25 13:29 GMT (UK)  »
With the usual health warning about the accuracy of online trees, note that there are several of them on the "Ancestry" website, citing Mogue (Aidan-Moses) Quirke and Catherine (Kate) Cullen as the parents.  But in line with that health warning, you would need to do your own validation of the extensive information in them, before accepting same.


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Ireland / Re: Ireland BMD
« on: Friday 26 December 25 09:39 GMT (UK)  »
If no success, consider posting details on the forum, our heads are all wired differently and I never cease to be amazed how quickly folk can find stuff.  :)
 

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Ireland / Re: Ireland BMD
« on: Thursday 25 December 25 20:03 GMT (UK)  »

https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ civil births, marriages and deaths all free from start of registration up to the usual 100,75,50 year privacy cut-off  (approx) with register images - all that's not included is deaths from 1864 to 1870


The only qualification I would add is that records post partition in 1921 for counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone should instead be sought on the website of the General Register Office Northern Ireland (GRONI). Unlike the "irishgenealogy" website, GRONI records are pay to view.  The same sort of privacy rules apply to their availability online.

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/go-groni-online


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Deciphering occupation
« on: Wednesday 17 December 25 09:05 GMT (UK)  »
It would be a truly dreadful writing of "stoker asst" if it were that... could it be?


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify this Belfast Streeet name?
« on: Wednesday 10 December 25 01:14 GMT (UK)  »
Almost all of the several hundred Ulster newspaper references I can see to Lower Grosvenor Street are to the street at the SE corner of Grosvenor Square in London and these peter out after the 1860s (presumably when the London street became just Grosvenor Street).

There are literally only a handful of newspaper references to Lower Grosvenor Street relating to Belfast, probing a couple of these further, I discovered that one wasn't so much stating a Belfast street name as it was indicating an area at one end of Grosvenor Street, ie. the Lower Grosvenor Street area of Belfast and the second was a mistake, namely someone with the distinctive name of Robert Conroy of 28 Lower Grosvenor Street in an 1897 newspaper item, whom I was able to readily find at 28 Little Grosvenor Street in a contemporary street directory.


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Ireland / Re: Brunkard, not sure where to post
« on: Wednesday 03 December 25 00:17 GMT (UK)  »
I also noticed on a subscription website a marriage record for a George Brunkard of 'Cornascribe' who married an Eliza Grundell at Tandragee Presbyterian Church on 22 March 1837, they had a son Robert Brunkard baptised in the same church in 1839, I don't know how they fit into the overall picture.  A quick check of the 'Ancestry' website shows several trees for this family, who ended up in Canada from the early 1840s.


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Ireland / Re: Brunkard, not sure where to post
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 23:14 GMT (UK)  »
It's not something that I'm 100% about, so I'll rely on others to keep me right, but my understanding of Ireland in that era is that a mixed marriage required Papal Dispensation otherwise it wasn't considered valid from the RC Church perspective ... unless the other party first converted to Catholicism (ie. 'problem' solved).


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Ireland / Re: Brunkard, not sure where to post
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 18:11 GMT (UK)  »
Just for the record, here is the actual image from the Drumcree RC parish registers of the baptismal record for Isabella Brunkard (in preparation for her marriage to Thomas Morgan), the baptism took place on 10 March 1875 (3 days before said marriage), John Brunkard and Eliza Wright were clearly stated as her parents, the sponsor was Mary Catherine Morgan:

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632569#page/51/mode/1up (left page)


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Ireland / Re: Brunkard, not sure where to post
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 08:02 GMT (UK)  »
A record of the proceedings of a Regimental Board (dated 26 March 1868) to verify and record the service, conduct, character and cause of discharge of 1439 (scored out and replaced with 3169) Sergeant William Brunkard states that this William Brunkard was discharged (to pension) at his own request on completion of 21 years service,  7 1/2 years of which was in New Zealand.  It also states that he was a weaver born in the parish of Kilmore near the town of Portadown in County Armagh, he attested for the Royal Artillery at Lisburn on 18 February 1847 when he was 20, his intended place of residence on discharge was Auckland, New Zealand.


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