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Offline Brosie

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travelling grocers.
« on: Monday 02 April 12 19:57 BST (UK) »
My ancestors, Michael Foley and his wife Catherine are mentioned in the censuses from 1855 till 1901 as being travelling grocer Nairnshire, I was wondering if there would be any record of this in Local papers etc.
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BOYD. BRODIE. CLOSS. Morrison. Kennedy. ROBERTSON. AYRSHIRE.  GEORGE. PATTON. STEWART. ALEXANDER. CARSON. HALL. BOYD. NORTHERN IRELAND. KIE BLACKSTOCK WIGTOWNSHIRE.

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Re: travelling grocers.
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 23 August 12 11:26 BST (UK) »
have you looked at the website libindx at all?

they have lots of records there and i just found this one that could be a reference to your Michael's death reported in the local newspapers in 1910:

Reference No.:    NM053959
Surname:    FOLEY
Forename(s):    MICHAEL
Occupation:    GROCER
Date of Birth:    c. 1826
Date of Death:  29 JAN 1910
Age:    84
Place of Death: 37 HARBOUR STREET NAIRN
Newspaper Articles
COURANT death 04/02/1910
NS death 05/02/1910

NS refers to the the Northern Scot and COURANT refers to the Elgin Courant

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Re: travelling grocers.
« Reply #2 on: Friday 07 September 12 21:22 BST (UK) »
Many thanks for the information, I am certain that is Michael Foley his wife was Catherine Ross and she was born Ireland in 1831. Her Father was Angus Ross and I think Angus was serving as a soldier in Ireland. The Libindx site has a lot of interesting history on it.
                     Thank you again.
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BOYD. BRODIE. CLOSS. Morrison. Kennedy. ROBERTSON. AYRSHIRE.  GEORGE. PATTON. STEWART. ALEXANDER. CARSON. HALL. BOYD. NORTHERN IRELAND. KIE BLACKSTOCK WIGTOWNSHIRE.