Author Topic: Help please on a place in Queens County  (Read 7136 times)

Offline Connie Sparrow

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Re: Help please on a place in Queens County
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 06 August 13 18:27 BST (UK) »

Looked at the record on Ancestry but just couldn't make it out but found the family in the UK 1901 Census also in Sandown and it gives Mary P Owens' birthplace as Maryboro (now Portlaoise)  Queens County. Could what looks like a G in the 1891 census be a M badly written? the rest would fit with Maryboro.
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The enumerator's 'M's are inconsistent but in the 1891 the initial letter is definitely a 'G'.  Variable birth places is one of the pitfalls of the censuses.  It makes things 'fun' though ;)

I'll pass on Maryboro to my friend and let her take it from there.

Thank you for your help.

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Re: Help please on a place in Queens County
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 23 November 13 14:34 GMT (UK) »
Wonder could it be Garryhinch - outside Portarlington/

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Re: Help please on a place in Queens County
« Reply #11 on: Monday 23 December 13 18:41 GMT (UK) »
2nd vote for Garryhinch  -  without knowing of Danishpots suggestion.