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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 07 May 08 01:06 BST (UK) »
Not that I'm an expert - but I gather they get some good things. Apparently they get much more information on their marriage certificates, I was told and can download them for £1 - anyway that's what they said on Sunday at the WDYTYA live show.
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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 07 May 08 01:51 BST (UK) »
Paulene

For anything 1855 onwards you get heaps of info onbirth, death and marriage certs. Parents names and maiden surnames etc all for just over £1. The OPRs are not as good - depends on how church kept the records tho on a baptism you'll get parents names. On marriage banns you don't normally get parents names. And of course no death certs pre 1855 alas!

But still good value. Would be lost without it

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Torrens, Thompson - Tyrone & Fermanagh,Connolly, Campbell - Monaghan & Cavan, McGovern, Carroll, Orr - Ireland <br />Connolly, Fulton, Stirling, Cameron, McKellar, Robertson, McGovern, Torrance, Bisland, Fraser, Hamilton, O'Hara, McAusland, McTaggart , Lambie, Twedale, Hart, Clark(Paisley/Barrhead/Glasgow)<br />McGovern, Liddell - Falkirk<br />Mair, Muir, Carroll, Stewart, Law, Orr - Lanarkshire <br />Torrance - Brisbane<br />Connolly , Robertson- NSW<br />McGovan(?), Robertson , Agnew-

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 07 May 08 13:05 BST (UK) »
Hi Ann,
Thanks for that bit of information, Ann - it's always good to pick up bits of information that might help others find their way. That's what we all try to do isn't it. Happy hunting! :)
Paulene :)

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 08 May 08 01:10 BST (UK) »
Just a shame I havent got any roots in Scotland  :(
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering


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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 08 May 08 02:22 BST (UK) »
Lol Vasquez

Never mind keep digging you never know what'll turn up! I thought had no Welsh and few Irish and turns out I got Welsh and loads of Irish.

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Torrens, Thompson - Tyrone & Fermanagh,Connolly, Campbell - Monaghan & Cavan, McGovern, Carroll, Orr - Ireland <br />Connolly, Fulton, Stirling, Cameron, McKellar, Robertson, McGovern, Torrance, Bisland, Fraser, Hamilton, O'Hara, McAusland, McTaggart , Lambie, Twedale, Hart, Clark(Paisley/Barrhead/Glasgow)<br />McGovern, Liddell - Falkirk<br />Mair, Muir, Carroll, Stewart, Law, Orr - Lanarkshire <br />Torrance - Brisbane<br />Connolly , Robertson- NSW<br />McGovan(?), Robertson , Agnew-

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 08 May 08 02:24 BST (UK) »
Yes, I thought that, too, Ann. I'm still hope there might be some Scottish link in ours somewhere - red hair on both sides! You just never know!
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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #24 on: Thursday 08 May 08 02:51 BST (UK) »
lol tho I suspect we may have a wee bit of Viking in there somewhere but as for finding any records - well........
Torrens, Thompson - Tyrone & Fermanagh,Connolly, Campbell - Monaghan & Cavan, McGovern, Carroll, Orr - Ireland <br />Connolly, Fulton, Stirling, Cameron, McKellar, Robertson, McGovern, Torrance, Bisland, Fraser, Hamilton, O'Hara, McAusland, McTaggart , Lambie, Twedale, Hart, Clark(Paisley/Barrhead/Glasgow)<br />McGovern, Liddell - Falkirk<br />Mair, Muir, Carroll, Stewart, Law, Orr - Lanarkshire <br />Torrance - Brisbane<br />Connolly , Robertson- NSW<br />McGovan(?), Robertson , Agnew-

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #25 on: Thursday 08 May 08 12:23 BST (UK) »
Always thought I might be from Viking descent as im tall, blond hair, blue eyes and like the cold weather!
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 03 October 09 09:42 BST (UK) »
Hi Ann,
Thanks for that bit of information, Ann - it's always good to pick up bits of information that might help others find their way. That's what we all try to do isn't it. Happy hunting! :)
Paulene :)

Thank you!  I enjoyed reading all the posts here.  I gleaned lots of information here on where to search for my uncle's burial site.  I have very limited facts but will try anyway.

 I'm looking for Arthur John Robin who died at the Seaman's Hospital in Greenwich, Kent.  He was in the Merchant Navy.  He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1915 and died 1953 in Greenwich, Kent at the Seaman's Hospital.

Thanks again!
Karola
Robin  =O:> Glasgow, Scotland and England
Cameron, Mason, 
  Beaumont Neilson,
       Buchanan Gilkerson [of Kentucky],
               Meikljohn, Eltze.
Walter Robin 1719-1784 & Isabel Gardner 1724-1769
  
...if I don't make haste, I shall have to go back through the looking-glass...back into the old room-and there'd be an end of all my adventures! .