Irish in Co Durham

[CathP49]

Someone has put a lot of information about my family on here. This is the family of James Henry Dowdle (also Keechin McDonnell names) and . Some of the information is correct (information that can be found in the census records) - other information is incorrect. I don't think this person is related to me and I wonder why they have posted this information online. I have extensive information about the family's roots in Ireland - which has been incorrectly guessed at on here.
Catherine P

[Ruskie]

Someone has put a lot of information about my family on here. This is the family of James Henry Dowdle (also Keechin McDonnell names) and . Some of the information is correct (information that can be found in the census records) - other information is incorrect. I don't think this person is related to me and I wonder why they have posted this information online. I have extensive information about the family's roots in Ireland - which has been incorrectly guessed at on here.
Catherine P

I have already replied to your previous post on this issue, and suggested you make three posts and then you will be able to contact MK201 (Margaret) via personal message to ask her about her relationship to your family. Have you managed to do this yet? (click on her name to the left of any of her posts to send her a PM)

She may be related to your family by marriage or alternatively she may have been researching the Dowdles and others, on someone else's behalf as many of us do. (I have done extensive research on my brother in law's ancestors and made contact with several of his distant relatives.) She may even have obtained the information from elsewhere on the internet (online trees for example). I'm sure there are no ulterior motives in her mentioning your ancestors on this thread.

Sometimes surnames can give an indication of places of origin so presumably this can be used as a way to trace Irish origins in cases where information is scant or non-existent. We all get things wrong occasionally and I'm sure Margaret will welcome you correcting any inaccuracies in her research.

[BMcD76]

Derry man here, Rose Frain was my great grandmother, the mother of my grandmother Hannah McDaid (nee Doherty). Rose Frain and Daniel Doherty had four daughters and one son as far as I know, Winnifred, Hannah, Mary, Annie and Danny. My own grandmother Hannah married Charles Gerard McDaid (Gerry) and they had 12 children including my late father Brendan.Gerry played football for Derry City FC Sligo Rovers FC and some teams in England in the 1930s and 40s. I've traced Rose Frain's line through the maternal Green side back to the earliest Plantagenet kings and queens of England, Henry I, Henry III, Eleanor of Aquitaine etc and the kings of Scotland, Duncan and Malcolm but alas have hit a brick wall with Mathias Frain from County Roscommon and his wife Bridget (nee Lyon or Lyons). Irish ancestry is very hard to trace compared to English or Scottish.