hi linda , recieved your message my grandfather and his father were miners, they mostly all started in ireland, i know most of the history now, , but still a lot missing, my grandfather had 4 brothers and one of them was called patrick , he married a woman called jane ohara, they mostly lived in baillieston, they had 10 children and one of them was called margaret, , she got married herself, and lived in millar street baillieston, i hope you dont get mixed up with this, well margaret had a daughter called margaret and she got married to a mclean and they lived in millar st, as well , it might have been the same house, why im telling you this is part of the story, my grandfather john who was patricks brother was married twice, he was married to a catherine brodley about 1890 and they had a daughter called catherine who was born in 1892 and the mother died a few months later of tb, my grandfather married again to a roseann farrell in 1895,he went on to have another family and my father was one of the children, i have been checking young catherine who was still living with the family in the 1902 sencus, but my grandfather and family came to belfast in 1911 but young catherine was not there, i have found out she went to the little sisters of the poor,, not sure yet if she went on to be a nun, but the store as far as i have got at the moment is she died in st. josephs home robroyston in 1975 at the age of 83, but her next of kin was down as a mrs, mclean who would have been her neice, maybe you could help me in this, i wrote away yesterday to glasgow bereavement services to find out were she was buried, and i hope to get word about this in a few weeks i hope, then ill go over to baillieston and see if any of the mcleans are still living in millar st, as far as i know it is still there, thank you for reading this, patrick mcgowan, and i see a lot of the mclean names in roots chat , so maybe your related to some of them ,
patrick mcgowan in rainy belfast
