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Offline Mumsie2131

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Re: Just had to tell someone
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 25 March 08 22:57 GMT (UK) »

I feel guilty that I found all my gt gt grandparents comparatively easily and have recently found all the females maiden names, just short of a few deaths.
Good luck everyone
Heap - Holmfirth WRY
Rhodes-Flockton WRY & NE Cheshire
Ridgway- NE Cheshire & Lancahire
Roebuck - Upperthong WRY
Wild - NECheshire
Riley - NE Cheshire & Derbyshire
Greaves - NE Cheshire & Lancashire

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Re: Just had to tell someone
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 25 March 08 23:16 GMT (UK) »
No guilt necessary Mumsie. We all have our brickwalls at different places. Some of us get lucky on certain branches and struggle with others. I started researching one side and went back many generations quite quickly. I have another branch where I can't get past the gg grandparents. One is Irish and the other is from outerspace  :o (or so it seems). And I have been working on them for 18 years, on and off.  :'(

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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: Just had to tell someone
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 06 April 08 02:37 BST (UK) »
Great news Skymoo  ;D

I have more that a few dead ends. I go back to look at them every so often to see what I can find as every day new stuff is put on the internet and you never know I might get lucky one day  ;D 

Then there's my Irish lot...... :P Hmmmmmm....I try not to dwell on them too much  :-\

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Census information is Crown copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Inishowen: Meenamullaghan (Big Hill), Foffenagh (Rock), Illies and area...mainly McCallion, Doherty, Bradley, Grant, Devlin
Kilmacrenan: Gortnacorrib....Bonner
Scotland: Bonar, Boner Bonner etc
Conwal: Kirkstown.....Toner, Parke
Derry City: Bonner, McGowan, McGilloway, McElwee, Bradley
Omagh: Bradley
Fanad Penninsular, Donegal.....McBride, Friel, Fielty
Sligo: McGowan