Hello
I'm trying to trace the ancestry of Patrick McDonald, born Castlebar in 1841 or 1842. He joined the British Army in December 1862 at York when his "age last birthday" was 22. His birthplace looks like "Parish Angles, Castle Barr" (could this be the enlisting officer mishearing Aglish???).His occupation was given as "Farm Labor". Family legend is that he had an ancestor Walter McMahon (or similar) who fought at Waterloo but I have no documentary evidence of that. In 1870 in Brighton he married Bridget Brangan of either Clare or Tipperary (Clare in 1891 census, Tipperary in 1911 census). She was the daughter of John Brangan, shoemaker, and his wife Bridget whose ancestors I would also like to trace but perhaps that's another topic.
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http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,358842.msg2357688.html#msg2357688Any help warmly welcomed.
Thanks
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