Gallagher - Rodgers

[Wexflyer]

I am hoping to try again to find my grandfather's military records, so any info anyone has on that front would be greatly appreciated.

I haven't looked, but unfortunately a large percentage of Great War era British soldier service records went up in flames in WWII, just to warn you. Courtesy of the Luftwaffe.

There is an armed services sub-board on here, with some real experts. I would recommend posting a separate query there.

[BelfastBoy56]

Great point, shanreagh, so if she was adopted child of Patrick Bradley, would Patrick have had to have been married? Not sure where it would lead finding out...
You also mentioned Patrick Gallagher being a witness at the marriage of Bernard and Lizzie, not sure how to go down that path either...

Thank you Wexflyer - will head over there asap and make a post, at the moment just looking to lay down in a quiet dark room somewhere   

Once again really do appreciate all the research and help 

[Wexflyer]

Did any of the adults on the 1911 census leave a will when they passed away?
In the case I mentioned myself, my big breakthrough was to obtain the English will of my great-aunt's adoptive "grandfather".

[BelfastBoy56]

Take you mean Patrick Bradley, Bernard and Lizzie Doherty - Good point, that's my weekend sorted, another avenue for me to look at over the coming days. Thank you.

[shanreagh]

Take you mean Patrick Bradley, Bernard and Lizzie Doherty - Good point, that's my weekend sorted, another avenue for me to look at over the coming days. Thank you.

Ha ha I bet you wondered what you were going to do this weekend.....joined by several others of us no doubt from several continents/countries....

[Neale1961]

Not sure if I would agree with Neale1961's comment that Kate/Catherine retained her father's surname, i.e. Gallagher. Perhaps she did, but would be useful if Neale could elaborate on why he thinks so?

Wexflyer, I don’t think that at all. I have never said that. You are mistaken.
Do take the time to read what I have actually written.

I think the 1911 census for Catherine Gallagher living in Long Tower Street is probably the correct one. Even though she was adopted, she still seems to have retained her surname. She may be able to be found.

AND ….

What I have not had time to do is look at ALL the births for Catherine/ Kathleen Gallagher in Derry (~1903-1908), or for Catherine with a mother Gallagher, and then back track and check for deaths of one or both of her parents before 1911.
It will be a little time consuming, but I can’t think of a short cut to this, and it may bring results.

What a lot of wasted time on this thread, because Rootchatters are not reading earlier posts!

[Wexflyer]

Neale1961 my apologies if I misremembered, or misunderstood.  I know instances like this have have annoyed myself on occasion. All I can say is that it can sometimes be difficult to remember all the details of multipage threads, especially when reading other threads also.

In the end, we are all just trying to be helpful.

[Neale1961]

In the end, we are all just trying to be helpful.

Agreed. 

[shanreagh]

So now that we have heavy rain warnings here in summer in NZ all weekend can we have a head's up on what we should be trying to find.....

I don't find it especially edifying to be part of a group told we are going over old ground, even though we may have been albeit inadvertently.  I do this when searching and I call it 'going round the traps' as I've found even when you think you have been there done that carefully looking again does sometimes yield a result. So that is why I am keen to look at the BDMs of all those on the census, not just Kathleen.  Also ponder on the wording of things......

So from this point on

Who are we looking for
What are we looking for eg BDMs? places associated with families? Relationships?