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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Wexford => Topic started by: Prussian1874 on Saturday 02 December 17 12:58 GMT (UK)
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I would appreciate help to find the birth/baptism and marriage of my ggg grandmother who is believed to be Elizabeth KERWIN (GRO birth records for many of her children refers) born about 1838 in County Wexford, according to the 1911 English Census.
Elizabeth married Charles NASH (born Chiseldon, Wiltshire, England in 1835) about 1860. No such marriage has been found in the UK or Ireland. NASH is sometimes transcribed as NAISH.
Charles was in the British Army (76th Foot) and stationed in Belfast, Dublin and possibly Waterford in the early 1860s.
The couple lived in Radstock, Somerset, England from at least the 1871 Census and had 11 children.
https://www.myheritage.com/site-298095651/crispgordonfryarnorman-family
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Is he this one? If so,,,unmarried in early 1861
First name(s) C
Last name Nash
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Marital status Unmarried
Gender Male
Age 24
Birth year 1837
Occupation Soldier
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Birth place (other) England
Birth place other as transcribed ENGLAND
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Parish St Johns
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County Lanarkshire
Country Scotland
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Registration district High Church
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Record set 1861 England, Wales & Scotland Census
1861 army index
Country Great Britain
Record set British Army, Worldwide Index 1861
First name Charles
Last name Nash
Service number 3607
Rank Corporal
Unit or Regiment 76th Foot
Regiment stationed at Glasgow
Year 1861
National Archives reference WO12 / 8237
There is a one page pension record for this chap....discharged from pension 1887....did your man die in that year?
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Found his service record....so the above records all pertain to him.
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Hi there is a marriage for a Charles Nash to a Eliza Sherwan 1861 Calton Glasgow on Scotlands People might be worth looking at ?
Select Marriages Scotland
Gives a date of 4, September 1861
Rosie
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Nice find.
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Nice find.
Maybe if it is this right person ...The poster's Charles is in the 1911 census ;)
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Sounds good -well done :)
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A few spare credits - Marriage Cert - Charles Nash aged 27 years (Corporal - Barracks Glasgow) and Eliza Sherwan aged 24 years (spinster) Great Dovehill. Glasgow
Father William Nash and Mother Jane (maiden surname Bye)
Elizabeth's father John Kerwan and mother Ann (maiden surname Burns)
Sandra
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1861 Census - Infantry Barracks Glasgow St John Lanarkshire.
Parish - Glasgow St John - ED - Infantry Barracks - Page: 19 -
C Nash aged 24 years - Soldier.
Sandra
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Many thanks to everyone for their research - there is much for me to review.
Charles NASH was medically discharged from the army while stationed in Belfast in 1864.
The 1861 marriage in Glasgow looks very promising since Charles was stationed there at that time but begs the question what was Elizabeth's maiden name - KERWAN/KERWIN/SHERWAN?
Gordon
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I would say her name was Kerwan if you look at the marriage Sandra has posted the signature of Eliza could quite easy be mistaken for Sherwan ..
Rosie
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Rosie - I'm inclined to agree with you that we can dispense with SHERWAN. We are then left with KERWAN (Scottish interpretation/translation) versus the variant of KERWIN which is recorded by the GRO for 9 of her children born in England. There was also one of her children born in England where her maiden name is recorded by the GRO as KARWIN.
I've yet to find Eliza or parents in the Scottish or Irish (KIRWAN) census.
If Eliza was born in Ireland (1911 England Census refers) and migrated to Scotland before settling in England from about the mid-1860s it is no wonder that her spoken maiden name was interpreted/recorded differently.