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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Topic started by: Davy MacLean on Sunday 07 April 24 16:24 BST (UK)
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Hi all,
The Scotland's people website document isn't very clear, and struggling to make out the name of the town my 4th great-grandfather came from.
I know it's David Arnot, tobacco pipe maker can't make out the age or the first part of the town in Ireland where he comes from, Could anyone make an educated guess based on what can be made out?
been suggested where I've mention it on the Scotland sub fourm County Down?
(https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=881762.0;attach=556137;image)
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I see it as County Down, Ireland. You can see the descender of the ‘y’ at the end of the first word.
Original thread here https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=881762.msg7544106#msg7544106
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Thanks. Something to go on if I can work my way around any surviving records
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See also this Scotland thread.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=881762.0
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For what it's worth - I agree! ;)
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And as I have just said on your other thread,
. Scotlandspeople will always try their best to provide a clearer copy if you contact them and ask. Just use the 'Report an issue' button when logged on:
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/technical-help/reporting-issues
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Peter Wade is shown as deceased in 1867. Death registration only started in Ireland in 1864 so if he died before that, tracing him may be hard going. As a labourer he probably doesn’t have a gravestone.
The Ros Davies Co. Down site has one Peter Wade who married in Downpatrick in 1822, in the Church of Ireland (Episcopalian). If you get no other leads you could try searching that parishes records though it probably needs a trip to PRONI in Belfast where they hold copies.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/genealogy/SURNAMES/W/WadWam.htm
That parishes Church of Ireland records start in 1701. Some years are on the rootsireland site (subscription).
Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church, after which she’d normally attend her husband’s. So can’t guarantee it was Peter Wade’s church too but it might have been. But he could have been Presbyterian. 2 Presbyterian churches in Downpatrick. The mainstream Pres church has records from 1827. The Non Subscribing Pres church has records from 1837. I don’t think they are on-line but there are copies in PRONI.
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Is it possible that it says 24 years, County down Ireland?
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Peggy,
That's what I think it's 24, But with people highlighting the down stroke for the "Y" in county then I can read it as County Down
Elwyn Soutter,
The records I've got seem to suggest Sara/Susanna was born in Edinburgh not Ireland, Could be a mistake of those carrying out the census reports.