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Re: Kissock/McDonald in Kells
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 02 November 16 15:41 GMT (UK) »
Hi Joseph,
I have already located most of the info relating to Charles in Iowa.
Can you please make one more post.... write anything.

Once you've made 3 posts, we can send private messages and exchange emails.

Do you have Charles's 1888 birth record?
Everything adds up now and yes, your family and mine do share the same Ancestry.
It's not exactly what you thought though! LOL

Anne

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Re: Kissock/McDonald in Kells
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 02 November 16 15:42 GMT (UK) »
Here is some information I have on my Elizabeth Hamilton and family. She was born 28 November 1879 in Ballyclug, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to Samuel Hamilton and Ellen Leitch. It looks like Samuel and Ellen had a few other children: William (born 27 March 1877 in Ballyclug), Ann (born 20 August 1874 in Glenwhirry), and possibly David. One sister is mentioned in Elizabeth's obit - Mrs. Margaret Johnston, who was married to James Johnston. Margaret and James lived in Ithaca, New York (Danby Town) when Charles and Elizabeth were living there too - Margaret and James came to the US in 1914, I think. Elizabeth died March 19 1962 in Ithaca, New York...my mother remembers visiting her when she was very, very little. Elizabeth farmed like her husband, and had with Charles a few children: Fred, Velma, David (I think he died when he was young), Paul, and Laird. I can try to come up with birth dates if of interest.

I remember my grandmother saying that people had thought Elizabeth was very beautiful when she was younger.

Here is Margaret and James Johnston in the 1940 US census (free): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ3V-N2H

For some reason Charles and Elizabeth Wray aren't coming up in the 1940 US census but I had found them before so will try again later.

Here is Elizabeth's obit: http://www.grinnell.lib.ia.us/Obit/W3/WrayElizabeth.pdf

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Re: Kissock/McDonald in Kells
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 02 November 16 15:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi anne_p, this is very exciting! Sorry, I don't have Charles's birth record for 1888 :( I'm so very excited to hear from you, I have been trying to learn more about him and his family for years! :) Talk soon, just getting ready (I'm on California time).

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Re: Kissock/McDonald in Kells
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 02 November 16 15:47 GMT (UK) »
Ok Joseph,
I am sending you a Private Message containing my email address

Anne


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Re: Kissock/McDonald in Kells
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 02 November 16 15:50 GMT (UK) »
Here is some more information too, if of interest, for Margaret Hamilton and James Johnston...they had a child, Charles Ray Johnston ("Wray Johnston"), born May 7 1917, in Rock Creek, Jasper, Iowa. Named after Charles Rae/Wray? Also, Margaret and James had another son, James S., that I know of...looks like he was born in Northern Ireland. The family is found living in Danby Town, New York in 1930 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4LG-KGT).

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Re: Kissock/McDonald in Kells
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 02 November 16 15:50 GMT (UK) »
Hi Anne! Okay, I look forward to hearing from you! :)

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Re: Kissock/McDonald in Kells
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 05 November 16 01:41 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
I have done extensive research into different lines of Beggs. I have an Elizabeth Beggs, father Robert, who married Joseph Kissock. Anne_p's posting in March 2015 said that there is a Margaret Kissock who married James Minn  in 1874 in Ballymena and her previous married name was Begg. Could it have been Beggs?
I see that witnesses to the wedding were the aforementioned Elizabeth and Joseph Kissock. Could Margaret's first marriage have been to one of Elizabeth's brothers or at least a relative of Elizabeth's?
Elizabeth had brothers Andrew and James who both died before 1874.
Peggy
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