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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Armagh => Topic started by: RosemaryJoan on Friday 27 October 17 20:24 BST (UK)
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Just discovered these relatives of mine living in Victoria Street in 1916. Can anyone help me get in touch with them.
RosemaryJoan
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Any idea of their relationship to each other?
A Sarah Mitchell Victoria St. Aged 62 died 13 Jan 1917
Had a sister Ellen Lavery
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1917/05226/4446685.pdf
Looks like the sisters were McConnell before they married
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Lurgan_Urban/Black_s_Court/335760/
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Yes, that was their mother, my g.grandmother. I did it know she had more children, and these are her grandchildren.
RosemaryJoan
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Just discovered these relatives of mine living in Victoria Street in 1916. Can anyone help me get in touch with them.
RosemaryJoan
Not sure what exactly what you are asking for here. Presumably the 4 people listed in the title are deceased if they lived in Lurgan in 1916?
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I am hoping someone will recognise the names and will help me find some living relatives.
Rosemary
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This isn't a forum for tracing living people but perhaps eventually someone with some information will see your post.
1911 census shows a Mitchell family living Victoria St., Lurgan- James Mitchell, wife Sarah, daughter Elizabeth & one boarder.
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Lurgan_Urban/Victoria_Street/297034
An 1911 an Ellen Mitchell living with her mother same street-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Lurgan_Urban/Victoria_Street/297031
Birth for a Priscilla Mitchell registered in Lurgan district in 1916- birth certificate should show parents' names-
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FBYX-P32
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Yes I understand that. I am looking for someone who has these people who are probably all dead in their family tree. Sarah Mitchell was my newly found g. Grandmother.
RosemaryJoan
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Perhaps if you included more details about the family then someone might recognise them.
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My great grandmother Sarah McConnell married James Martin in 1888. She already had produced 3 illegitimate children before then to different men. One of them was my grandmother. If you look at her 1911 census entry in Aghadoweys message above, you will see one of her children living there as a boarder. I didn’t know that she had eventually married until recently and didn’t know that my grandmother had two more siblings, Mary Elizabeth and William James. William James married ? Doak and it is his children so I named in my original post. I know all Sarah McConnell’s previous history, bu am interested in her Mitchell descendants. Any help much appreciated. Rosemary Joan
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Mary Laura Doak was the wife of Wm J. Mitchell. I think she is the daughter of Rebecca Jane Doak who is in Gilford in 1901 and died 1908. Her son, John George Doak b 1876, said his father was Samuel and Mary (born Mary ANN Doak) said her father was Thomas. The birth records list no father. Rebecca is almost certainly the dau of Joseph and Mary Smart of Ballynagarrick. Rebecca also had a son Robert b 1893 in Gilford.
There are a few Wm J. Mitchell in Lurgan in 1911 and a Lurgan Wm J. Mitchell who died in WWI. There is a book which talks about most of the families of those who died in the Lurgan area in WWI, but I don't have the page for this Mitchell nor the title. If he died, Mary would have young children and might have returned to live again with John George Doak in Gilford.
At marriage Wm J says his father is James. James is a widower when he married Sarah. Wm JOHN Mitchell (not said to be Wm James) who died in WWI said his parents were James and Annie of James St, Lurgan. I'm not finding them in the census. I am finding Annie Eliza Steenson married to a James Mitchell in 1877 and she probably died in 1886 in the Lurgan area. James said his father was Samuel and I have a Samuel and Annie in Moyraverty with son James b 1854, slightly earlier than the several dates James claims. I don't know if anything fits together with all these name changes, but perhaps someone can access more information.
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I think William James Mitchell survived the war, this from a local (NI) newspaper of May 1918:
Mrs. W.J. Mitchell, 51 Wellington Street, Lurgan, has received intimation that her husband, Sergeant W.J. Mitchell, Royal Irish Fusiliers, has been wounded in action and is now in hospital in England.
Wellington Street Lurgan is the address recorded in the birth record for a further child born in 1920 to William James Mitchell and Mary Laura Doak, I'll pm you the details.
Also noticed that GRONI online has a marriage on 7 August 1935 for a Priscilla Mitchell to William Wilson, the registration district given as Craigavon, it could be a co-incidence of name, though the name isn't common.
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Many thanks Gaffy and Kat . I am really grateful to you for this and I shall follow this up. Hopefully the Priscilla marriage will help me. X
Rosemary xx
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Looks like Priscilla lived in Lower Lake Street in 1935 and her husband William Wilson came from Bridge Street South.
RosemaryJoan