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Surname deciphering please
« on: Saturday 14 October 17 02:02 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Can anyone please decipher this maiden surname? The first surname, I believe, is O'Hara.

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Re: Surname deciphering please
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 14 October 17 02:18 BST (UK) »
Shiress  ???

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Re: Surname deciphering please
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 14 October 17 02:47 BST (UK) »
Thanks Dawn. Could I just add this snip from the same record that seems to say coalminer (deceased) William? it's the way they do their "m" that makes me wonder.

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Re: Surname deciphering please
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 14 October 17 03:25 BST (UK) »
What is the document?
What year & where?
Where/when was the person born/married?

Dates & areas can help a lot.

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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

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Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

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Re: Surname deciphering please
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 14 October 17 03:55 BST (UK) »
I think the maiden surname looks like Shiress.

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Re: Surname deciphering please
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 14 October 17 04:03 BST (UK) »
The second snippet says "Coachman (Deceased)"

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Re: Surname deciphering please
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 14 October 17 20:56 BST (UK) »
Thanks again all. That's great. It was a marriage in Scotland of a widow from a mining accident. At least some of them were originally Irish. It was in 1899 in Uphall, Linlithgow. The surname that looks like Shiress is of the mother of the second husband, so is really important to help get further back.
With the coachman bit, I was too influenced by this snip from the same record that I do think says miner. The extra line is from the surname above.


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Re: Surname deciphering please
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 14 October 17 21:50 BST (UK) »
Is the groom's name from the second marriage in 1889 in Uphall, O'Hara? I so, what was the name of the groom's father? Could it be James O'Hara. Only because I saw a reference to a James O'Hara and an Alice Shivers - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FRCC-QRG

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« Reply #8 on: Saturday 14 October 17 22:45 BST (UK) »
Yes! Thank you so much.