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Offline Rosezi

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missing birth for Alexander Dunbar from Belfast
« on: Sunday 01 November 15 15:48 GMT (UK) »
i am searching for a baptism record for a Alexander Dunbar born in Belfast around 1845. He was a mariner and probably left Ireland around the late 1860s and settled in Liverpool with his wife Margaret who was also a Dunbar, but from Dublin. His father was Daniel Dunbar a  Land Steward. I have no further information on any other family member from Belfast. I have looked on rootsireland and found nothing to match the date of birth. Any help to solve this mystery would be greatly appreciated.
Banks - Wick, Caithness
Dunbar - Co Antrim-Birkenhead-Liverpool
Kemp - Woodnesborough,Kent-Liverpool
Long - Ireland-Liverpool
Clarke - Ireland-Liverpool
Weldon - Dublin-Birkenhead
Thomas - LLandysilio,Anglesey-Liverpool
Roberts -Denbighshire-Liverpool
Spain-Woodnesborough, Kent
Seed - Ballyculter, Co. Down
Graham-Ayrshire-Ballyculter-Liverpool

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Re: missing birth for Alexander Dunbar from Belfast
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 01 November 15 16:26 GMT (UK) »
It may be that a baptism record for Alexander Dunbar doesn't exist but if such a record survives it might not be available online.

What religion were the Dunbars? What information do you have about the marriage?
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: missing birth for Alexander Dunbar from Belfast
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 01 November 15 17:43 GMT (UK) »
Alexander married a Margaret Dunbar in 1868 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, they moved to Liverpool and had 4 sons Daniel, Charles, John and William. The children were baptised Catholics, so he may have been a Catholic also, or married a Catholic. His second wife was a Maria Mullen who he wed in 1888. I have lots of info on his life as a mariner, crew lists etc.. but nothing about his life before he came to England
Banks - Wick, Caithness
Dunbar - Co Antrim-Birkenhead-Liverpool
Kemp - Woodnesborough,Kent-Liverpool
Long - Ireland-Liverpool
Clarke - Ireland-Liverpool
Weldon - Dublin-Birkenhead
Thomas - LLandysilio,Anglesey-Liverpool
Roberts -Denbighshire-Liverpool
Spain-Woodnesborough, Kent
Seed - Ballyculter, Co. Down
Graham-Ayrshire-Ballyculter-Liverpool