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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #207 on: Friday 30 April 10 14:56 BST (UK) »
....it get's better  ;). Can't see the wood for the trees (the Ancestry type  ;D) Two main trees showing there for this line - we must have checked this when we were first looking around...where have these sprung up from I wonder!

Mother Mary Milroy showing as Margaret Mary Milroy.

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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #208 on: Friday 30 April 10 15:10 BST (UK) »
http://www.kirkyards.co.uk/borgue/borgue.asp?Inscription=mcMinn - no.142 :)

The two trees are new...and I am in touch with one of them, who has told me, she copied hers from the other!  Have written to the "other", and am awaiting replies.  I am also waiting for a reply from the Ian McMInn in Liverpool, who is researching the McMinn name...but you know what...who needs all them, when I have Rootschat????  You guys came up with this info from the beginning!  So nice to be able to confirm it all though!

Oh Kath & Monica...so delighted you guys were online...I was fit to burst when I saw the gravestone.  What a TRIP!!!!!
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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #209 on: Friday 30 April 10 15:49 BST (UK) »
I have a few queries on my "new" found family...would it be better now, to post them on the Scottish boards, d'you think, as a completely seperate thing?
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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #210 on: Friday 30 April 10 15:55 BST (UK) »
I would start a new thread if you  :) This post focused on our young soldier Alex and his wife and children.

Alexander's mother, Mary Milroy (not sure where the Margaret comes in from the trees on Ancestry as she had a sister Margaret chr. 1800) shows with sisters on batch code C118732 on IGI - maybe the brothers on SP given it looks to be one of those girl only batches. You should be able to verify her parents names of Peter and Janet Muir from her DC.

Plenty of new stuff for you to get stuck into now!

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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #211 on: Friday 30 April 10 16:24 BST (UK) »
Yes, and I am so excited!

Okay...back to my new findings!

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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #212 on: Monday 03 May 10 12:23 BST (UK) »
:):):)

Yes, Gadget gave the MI's, with just one small difference, the Alex she listed, was in fact Peter.... oh, I am dancing inside...really has opened up the world of the McMinn's now.  Why oh why didn't I check out that wesbite at the time????

And don't worry Kath, I constantly have to refresh myself too...the only reason that I have come on it all again recently is that someone contacted me regarding the WRONG Alexander that I had at the beginning!

So we finally have a proper family for our dashing dark haired grey eyed rogue from Bogue!

Am now proudly inputting the info on my tree  ;D ;D


Just in case people think that I overlooked anything, see this message:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,453776.msg3155378.html#msg3155378

Daisy would not have found him, even if she had checked as the online site was only set up this year.  The booklets have a whole chunk of the MI missing  ::)


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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #213 on: Wednesday 02 June 10 19:40 BST (UK) »
Hi to MonicaLesl & Gadget

Thanks for your response to the posting.  Yes, I am the missing link who is descended from the "other" Alexander McMinn - a family we all love.

Marty has been kind enough to pass some info we did not have - but we are keen to learn about where our alexander met his wife who died from "the booze" after marrying her 2nd husband (of course fibs were told about her age!) or he would presumably have thought twice!!!  poor Alice left with kids without a husband died of cirrh of liver and exhaustion.  What a ghastly time she probably went through in the 1890's era poor woman.  Since Clonmel now looks likely as where they met - our only other clues from the Military records held are Dublin and Cork.  We hope s.k.s. will help to unravel this deepening by the year and minute saga of "how they are likely to have run across each other" when he was stationed in Eire.

One message for Gadget on reading 15 pages of the previous postings - brilliant stuff I must say - is "Please do you have a record for our William McMinn in KKD  who was a police supt. (policeman) in the District and would be buried in Borgue area with presumably his wife Grace nee Clark (also nee McMyne) (Perhaps this lady was married before she wed him?).  Any assistance might clear the mists which have shrouded this family link for such a long time.  Knowing our Alexdr was a "naughty" boy in the Army - court martials etc. but left with a clear g/conduct record and was a Corporal Service No 2468 in the RA who died not long after his pension was paid and he retired/ ???completed his service. ???
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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #214 on: Wednesday 02 June 10 20:24 BST (UK) »
Hi Radhima

Welcome to Rootschat :)

Just to let you know that I've got your message and will try to find something for you in the next few days. I have a few pressing problems to sort out at the moment.

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Re: McMinn Mystery Deepens...
« Reply #215 on: Thursday 03 June 10 14:31 BST (UK) »
Hi there Gadget

Have just read your message and thank you for agreeing to have a "mooch" to try to unscramble this McMyne and Clark link to our *Alexander McMinn.  Grace Clark on the marr cert in 1832 had our Alexander  c. 1835 Kirkudbright - *He was, according to Daisy Loo s of William B c 1811  who marr Grace nee Clark ne McMyne.  Hope that's enough info - if not, we shall be stumped out at present!!!

We know the family names carried on i.e. Isabella, Janet and David as well as William  and know that a lot must be buried in Twynholm Rerrick Borgue KKd and perhaps elsewhere in the area.

Fingers and toes are crossed something comes up.  Thanks a billion Gadget - 'cause we already have your detailed info on MI's from the posting requested by Daisy Loo.

In your own time, of course, as we have only been researching this line since 1981......... pause for breath - never thought we would get this far somehow.

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