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Mr J T Arthur
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If it is Ardellis in the civil parish of Fontstown you are out of luck as it is in the Catholic parish of Kilmeade and Crookstown (sometimes listed as Narraghmore) which Kildare Genealogy stubbornly refuse to include in the Irish Family History Foundation site. I suggest you directly email Kildare Genealogy for an explanation and hopefully you will succeed where many others of us have failed.
If by holiday you mean you are visiting Kildare you will need to contact the priest at Crookstown.
Good luck,
J.T.A.
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Mr J T Arthur
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Beavis,
I note with interest your mention of the name Winter as that name was not listed in the whole of Kildare let alone the Crookstown district at the time of the Primary Valuation of Ireland (GV) which in the case of Co Kildare was surveyed in 1852, yet in 1869 a cousin of my grandmother Mary Butler daughter of George Butler and Marcella Cahill was baptised at Crookstown and her godparents were John Winter and Catherine Nugent.
Does the name John Winter mean anything to you and did your Winter ancestors arrive in the district after 1852?
Best wishes,
J.T.A.
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Mr J T Arthur
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The Parsons lived at Birr Castle and I note that in 1854, the year that Charles Parsons was born there was a Thomas Winter in the town of Birr who sublet several house he leased from the Earl of Rosse who was William Parsons the famous astronomer so there could be a connection there.
I have lived all my life on Tyneside and am therefore well aware of Charles Parsons but I know of no connection that he had with Sunderland. He first served his apprenticeship in the 1870's at the Armstrong's Works, Elswick in the west end of Newcastle less than than 5 miles from my home and later worked at Clarke Chapmans near Gateshead on the south side of the Tyne. Then in 1889 he founded C.A. Parsons and Co. at Heaton, Newcastle. He also acquired the Irish Grubb Telescopic Company in 1925 and renamed it Grubb Parsons but that was based in Newcastle too.
J.T.A.
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Mr J T Arthur
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Hello Beavis,
I just live 3 miles from Wylam, a pretty little village on the northern bank of the Tyne about 8 miles west of Newcastle. It was also the home of George Stephenson who lived in much more humble circumstances. I also have a family connection there.
http://www.wylamontyne.co.uk/
J.T.A.
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