Moneypenny - Liverpool - 1861

[Missy2]

  Hi Lynne,

Pleased to meet you, cousin.  I thought you may have much of the info as there seems to be plenty of it on the Web through various sources.  Ayla has been in touch with info for me which is much closer to home and I didn't know it!!!

I have screeds of early Scottish info through the old website put on by Chuck Moneypenny in the USA and passed on to me by my niece back in about 1997 but I seem to come to a dead end with David and his migration from Ireland.  I had thought that Matthew and  David could be cousins.  All the families seemed to lack imagination as far as naming their children and the same names crop up again and again in each generation.  Mary Moneypenny, daughter of David and Elizabeth was baptised at a place called Brown's Meeting House near Armagh and William Henry was christened at Muhlabrach Church, also somewhere near Armagh in 1844.

  This information was passed on by letter to my grandfather, Leontes (Leonard) here in Australia in 1914 by Mary Ball's son, Robert, when the family was trying to trace a William Moneypenny who died here, supposedly dying intestate. They were unsuccessful, but I have found him since.

I have only returned to reseaching after holidays but will keep you posted if I come across anything further.

Noela

[impware]

Hi, thanks Noela (and everyone else) for fleshing out a few details about my line (such as my great grandfather William Henry's baptism). 

I've been collecting info on the Liverpool Moneypennys (I'm one, Iain) for a while and am trying to build up a small web resource, with photos and a bit more depth.

It's limited at the moment to my direct line tracing back to David (b 1821 Ireland) but I'm intending to branch out a bit more as time goes by. You can find it at http://www.moneypenny.org.uk/findex.htm

There's a contact email link there - the one for me posted earlier in the thread is no longer in use. If anyone's got an old family picture with William Henry on it I'd really like to see it!

[MissM]

Hi Iain

Nice to hear from you!

I can send you some more information if you like.  I think I still have your email address at home (in work at the moment!).  I've mainly concentrated on Irish/Liverpool Moneypennys and put them into an alphabetical table which I can send to you.

Thanks to Donna way back in Jan 05 I found Mathew had a cousin, Elizabeth and I've recently found the reference for her wedding certificate.  This might give me her father's name (I HOPE!) and therefore possibly Mathew's brother's name.  As I think your David is possibly his brother, this might make it easier to trace their father. 

Phew!  Lots of if's and might's there!   

Let me know if you want the records I have.

Lynne