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Scottish or Irish last name
« on: Tuesday 26 January 21 17:38 GMT (UK) »
Hello, I'm trying to decipher this ocean arrival document and am having no luck.

My great grandmother Jean Mcfall put her sister as the closest relative on this sheet annd I'm hoping it'll direct Me to exactly where in port Glasgow she was and why she left.

I'm unable to read her sister's last name...

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Scottish or Irish last name
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 26 January 21 18:27 GMT (UK) »
Possibly a variant/mispelling of Cushnahan or Cushnaghan? 

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Re: Scottish or Irish last name
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 26 January 21 18:39 GMT (UK) »
I'd agree. There is no record of a Cushnahan (or any variant) marrying a McFall (or any variant) in Scotland from 1880-1940. Perhaps they married in Ireland, unless the document is from the 1950s.

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Re: Scottish or Irish last name
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 26 January 21 20:22 GMT (UK) »
Wow you guys are incredible,  I definitely see Cushnahan.

It looks like ms Mary Cushnahan,  I wonder if she was an adopted sister of Jeanie Mcfall.
Jeanie's mother Ellen died in 1911 and I don't know what happened to the family after.

Can't find a death for her father William either.

There's also a Mary Ellen Cushnahan from port Glasgow born 1909.

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Re: Scottish or Irish last name
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 26 January 21 22:07 GMT (UK) »
An Edward Cushnahan married a Mary Jane Girvan in Port Glasgow in 1917. Not sure how Mary Jane could connect to Jean McFall though  :-\ Maybe have a look at the marriage on SP for further details.

This Canadian arrival card entry is from 1923 I think from what I have seen on her before. Parents William and Helen married in 1900 in Port Glasgow as you have.

Valuation Rolls for at least 1920 and 1920 show an Edward CUARNAGHAN or CUSHNAGHAN at 10 George Street Port Glasgow. Spelling of this surname will be tricky. I am searching for C*U*H*N for the surname.

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Re: Scottish or Irish last name
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 26 January 21 22:09 GMT (UK) »
Found this as a possibility for Mary Jane Givan https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LYCT-8LL/mary-jane-girvan-1891-1952

I think you have a family tree on Ancestry for Thomas McDonald and Jeannie McFall don't you? There is this family tree for Edward and wife Mary Jane www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/163093070/person/102156554562/facts

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Re: Scottish or Irish last name
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 26 January 21 22:22 GMT (UK) »
With William McFall being left a widower following the death of wife Helen in 1911, have you considered that he may have remarried? He was still relatively young, born 1874.

There is a possible marriage:

WILLIAM MCFALL and ANNIE BLANEY
1913
574/ 128
Port Glasgow

If you do confirm that it is the correct William McFall, you also have Annie Blaney McFall's death in 1932, aged 59, in Port Glasgow. A quick check on that will let you know whether husband William was still alive. Like you, can't easily see his death so far.

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Re: Scottish or Irish last name
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 26 January 21 23:37 GMT (UK) »
From the VRs (Valuation Rolls)

CUSHNAGHAN EDWARD Tenant Occupier
HOUSE C GEORGE STREET PORT GLASGOW (doesn't show a no.)
1931 - VR007100046-

From at least 1921 - at least 1925

CUSHNAGHAN EDWARD Tenant Occupier
HOUSE BLOCK 10 GEORGE STREET PORT GLASGOW
1921 - VR007100041-

Same address 1920 as CUARNAGHAN

Looks like he was at the same address throughout, No. 10c although on the doc. it looks like 19c...

CUSHNAGHAN EDWARD Tenant Occupier
HOUSE NO C GEORGE STREET PORT GLASGOW
1915 - VR007100038-


1911 - CUSHNAHAN EDWARD 21
574/ 7/ 14 Port Glasgow Renfrew


Annie

Add...Sorry for duplication, hadn't noticed Monica's 1920 VRs ref.  ::)
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Scottish or Irish last name
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 27 January 21 08:43 GMT (UK) »
Sadly, the Arrival cards only ask for an address of a contact person.

The address for Jean herself on the actual passenger list is 8 Bachron Lane, Glasgow.  I can't find it on a map; perhaps it has been renamed?
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