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Re: Help with Irish search
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 29 January 12 10:40 GMT (UK) »
cheers guys, its a strange one, but bar the few census details we know nothing about them or what happened to any of the children

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Re: Help with Irish search
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 29 January 12 11:12 GMT (UK) »
It's likely, from the records I found, that the surname was mistranscribed and it's possible that some/all of the children could have changed their surname to something more English sounding.
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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 29 January 12 11:20 GMT (UK) »
It's likely, from the records I found, that the surname was mistranscribed and it's possible that some/all of the children could have changed their surname to something more English sounding.
most likely, but that makes things very difficult

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Re: Help with Irish search
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 29 January 12 14:55 GMT (UK) »
cheers guys, its a strange one, but bar the few census details we know nothing about them or what happened to any of the children

Not sure if you have this:

death - if it is him, he didn't move far and I think the age is out a bit:

Adam Vandershaff  95 yrs

Liverpool North   Jul-Aug-Sep 1964  vol 10d pg 255


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Re: Help with Irish search
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 29 January 12 18:53 GMT (UK) »
cheers guys, its a strange one, but bar the few census details we know nothing about them or what happened to any of the children

Not sure if you have this:

death - if it is him, he didn't move far and I think the age is out a bit:

Adam Vandershaff  95 yrs

Liverpool North   Jul-Aug-Sep 1964  vol 10d pg 255



cheers its a poss, age out by 9 yrs

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Re: Help with Irish search
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 29 January 12 19:34 GMT (UK) »
How do you know that Betsy/Elizabeth is a Dixon? Do you have her in 1871?
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Re: Help with Irish search
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 29 January 12 20:09 GMT (UK) »
How do you know that Betsy/Elizabeth is a Dixon? Do you have her in 1871?
we are not 100 percent sure, but a relative whose grandmother was Elizabeths  daughter said it was Dixon, but she knows nothing else about that side as her branch settled in Canada in 1923 and her mother didnt speak about her family much

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« Reply #16 on: Sunday 29 January 12 21:17 GMT (UK) »
It would have been better if you explained at the start that Dixon was only a possibility for Betsy's maiden name  ;) Unfortunately, many of the searches I did yesterday were with the surname Dixon so it's quite possible I missed finding the real records.
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Re: Help with Irish search
« Reply #17 on: Monday 30 January 12 07:21 GMT (UK) »
It would have been better if you explained at the start that Dixon was only a possibility for Betsy's maiden name  ;) Unfortunately, many of the searches I did yesterday were with the surname Dixon so it's quite possible I missed finding the real records.
Sorry