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Durham / Re: Family Secret - Turnbull/Kelly Gateshead
« on: Tuesday 28 February 23 17:20 GMT (UK)  »
So, on the highly unlikely chance that you remember my post from THIRTEEN YEARS AGO...... I finally found out what the secret was and why Nana refused point blank to help with my family tree.....

To cut a long story short, my sister past away in September, aged 43.

My dad was adamant that I'm banned from going (I haven't spoken to HIM in nearly 30 years, but I *did* speak to my sister)

Anyway, he turns up with HIS SON.... WHO NOBODY KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT. A son from his 2nd wife, but he was conceived and born when my dad was still with wife number 1.

He's onto his FOURTH wife now 🙄

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Durham / Re: Thomas & Mary Shaw, census look up sunderland 1891
« on: Sunday 25 February 18 23:31 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I know I'm joining the party a few years late.... Just to let you know, if you're interested, I work in the building where you Shaws worked. Not sure if you wanted a photo of the building? I walk down Blandford street to get to work so could have a look at where they lived. Just a thought.

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Massive Mystery .... Spanish Immigrant???
« on: Monday 19 September 16 19:11 BST (UK)  »
No... never occurred to me. I'll get onto it x

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Massive Mystery .... Spanish Immigrant???
« on: Monday 19 September 16 18:52 BST (UK)  »
Thanks! I'll give those links a read. I had thought perhaps it was a phonetic spelling of a Spanish name...There's actually an English(?) surname of Oweneley.
I wondered if they'd picked up on that and added a "De".


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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Massive Mystery .... Spanish Immigrant???
« on: Monday 19 September 16 18:17 BST (UK)  »
Ah right! We know he was a fireman at a paper mill. We don't have any actual certificates as I want to know that they'll give information that we don't already have. I know he had to sign at the police station every week during the war so I wonder if I can see those records?
The story is that he arrived in Dingwall (there's a few in the UK!) via ship and that his father was the captain. I've searched and searched and still haven't found anything to suggest this story was true, other than the fact that one of his sons appers to have joined the merchant navy.
I keep wondering what happened that was so bad that he came to the UK, changed his name, and never went back to Spain ever again. And what did the guy at the Embassy mean? And why did his wife have to hand his documents in there when he died?
Strange!

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Massive Mystery .... Spanish Immigrant???
« on: Monday 19 September 16 17:55 BST (UK)  »
Which register have you read that on, Cathy? Is it births? I'm confused x

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Massive Mystery .... Spanish Immigrant???
« on: Monday 19 September 16 17:43 BST (UK)  »
Bizarre! Maybe it's a child of his?

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Massive Mystery .... Spanish Immigrant???
« on: Monday 19 September 16 15:28 BST (UK)  »
Thanks x Yeah, it's really hard trying to find anything with that name. We've been trying to think what the background story could be. There was talk of a possible shipwreck and that's how Gurvilliam ended up in the UK, but apparently he was also a bit of a Walter Mitty-type character so everything that he said was taken with a pinch of salt! A name-change and a country move suggests running away from something..... but what? It's so annoying!!

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Massive Mystery .... Spanish Immigrant???
« on: Monday 19 September 16 15:07 BST (UK)  »
Great, that means we can look at merchant navy stuff as he's probably followed in his dad's footsteps. Thank you! x

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