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Ireland / Re: Susan Grant (Irish in Uniform) in Malta 1949 - ??
« on: Friday 28 April 23 17:02 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to all who responded to my query on behalf of Peter. I have relayed any pointers back to him. His best hope. (given his limited information ) seems to be a search for a Susan Grant, serving in Malta in 1949 , when the searchable Service Records Database is created by Ancestry. 

 

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Ireland / Re: Susan Grant (Irish in Uniform) in Malta 1949 - ??
« on: Monday 03 April 23 16:24 BST (UK)  »
Photo provided by 74 year old Peter of him as a baby in Susan Grants arms

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Ireland / Re: Susan Grant (Irish in Uniform) in Malta 1949 - ??
« on: Monday 03 April 23 16:20 BST (UK)  »
Sorry for the confusion, I will clarify the request. I am trying to help a friend of a friend who is named Peter, is Maltese, and living in Malta. When he met an Irish person in Malta recently, he asked , can you help me find any background information about  the Irish Lady who was  Godparent at my Baptism in Malta in December 1949. Her name was Susan Grant, was Irish and was in the Services.

All he has is a photo, showing him as a baby in Susan Grant's arms. I will attempt ( never did it before), to put up the photo he provided. Perhaps someone can recognize the uniform? Or suggest what databases are searchable for someone who was stationed in Malta in 1949??

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Ireland / Susan Grant (Irish in Uniform) in Malta 1949 - ??
« on: Wednesday 29 March 23 20:11 BST (UK)  »
Trying to help trace a Susan Grant, who in 1949 was godmother to a Baptism in Malta. Have photo of her in what looks like a military uniform, holding the baby. The family believed she was Irish. Am trying to help  the baby (Peter ) . who is now grown up and trying to trace her relatives. Any help or advice very welcome.

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Ireland / Re: Assistance With Birth Location And Name Please
« on: Monday 18 October 21 08:50 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the info on the filming of the books. News to me, must check it out.

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Ireland / Re: Assistance With Birth Location And Name Please
« on: Thursday 07 October 21 16:06 BST (UK)  »
Re your comment that it was "surprising " that a name was not found in Griffiths Valuation, one needs to bear in mind that it was quite different to a Census, in which an attempt is made to list all the inhabitants.
 In Griffiths, the only people listed for any one House/Property are (1) The Owner of the property, and (2) where the property is leased to a Tenant, only the name of the Person who signed the Lease. 
So take a Fictional but Typical small farm holding, say Owned by a landlord called Lord Louth, and rented from him by the Keating family , made up of Grandfather Tom Keating, His son John Keating, wife Bridget, and 8 children. In the Census all 11 Keatings will be listed. In Griffiths , only 2 people are listed, the Landlord and Grandfather Keating.
And changes afterwards down the years are contained in the Valuation Office, Abbey Street, in Dublin, and can be seen only in person there. Changes were made by crossing out the old tenant and adding in the new one using coloured ink!!! The colour was different each year. These "Change books" are very delicate, and a project is underway to digitise them but it is only at pilot stage yet, and covers only 1 or 2 counties. And can still only be viewed in house. 


 

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Ireland / Re: Assistance With Birth Location And Name Please
« on: Wednesday 23 June 21 23:47 BST (UK)  »
Looking at census 1901 and 1911 there are a number of Hastings families in Kilkee in County Clare, and one person has the First name "Senan". If your bride was 19 in 1879 she was born in 1860 but civil registration did not start in Ireland until 1864, so the birth can only be searched in church baptism records.  Its late for me here (in Ireland) now but I will try to search further tomorrow.

Kevin   

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Meath / Re: Meath Ireland
« on: Monday 05 September 16 10:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi again,
To answer your questions,
(1) these registers I am looking at for Oldcastle are for the Church of Ireland i.e. Protestant, and it would be most unusual at that time for Catholics to be baptised in a protestant church, especially as in Oldcastle at that time 1820 there was also a catholic church.
(2) Also you asked about Wicklow , well in the late 1700s early 1800s lots of Ireland was a war zone, with Wicklow and Wexford at the centre and movement to them would be unlikely.

But, the records in Oldcastle only begin in 1814 so the James , a tailor living in UK aged 45 in 1841 census could well have been born in Oldcastle , as he would be in the earlier registers which unfortunately no longer exist.

Lastly I am interested in whether Whiteland Lyndsay and his wife Catherine who are buried in Oldcastle could possibly be parents of Thomas ?? Its such an unusual firstname that it might be worth searching widely for it??

But you really are getting to the limits of all existing Irish records.

Cheers
Kevin (meath999)

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Meath / Re: Meath Ireland
« on: Thursday 01 September 16 12:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
Apologies but in my earlier post I   left a dot out of the name of the website of the RCB Library in Dublin. It should have read www.library.ireland.anglican.org

As to Other Lyndsays in the Oldcastle Register, can I observe that different scribes seem to use different spellings for the same family, so "Lyndsay" , "Lindsay" , "Lynsey" all appear.

There are two entries in the burial section for -
       Cath. Lyndsay wife of W??????? aged 79 died Jan 1822

 then later

       Whitehand Lyndsay aged 80 died 1823


There are Birth entries for two children of David and Frances Lyndsay

       Frances a daughter b Jan 11 1816
and  Charles a son b Jan 13th 1819

There is a baptism entry for William Lyndsay Jan 29 1814 with no parents listed.

I will try and type all these up again in table form to make them more readable.

Lastly there is nothing in the register to show whether your James is an Uncle or not.

Cheers
Kevin (Meath999)





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