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Title: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Thursday 21 June 18 15:36 BST (UK)
Can I request some assistance from the great experts on this forum.

I have a neighbour who we have discussed their family history . I have a FindMyPast sub
but can I find his family on there .

Patrick Brennan -Born 19,12.1894 Liverpool . I have his Merchant Navy record but cannot pick him
up in the census records of 1901 -1911 .

Any wizards on here have a magic wand or something ? Im stuck ! Thanks in advance people.
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 21 June 18 15:39 BST (UK)
Possible birth registration
BRENNAN, PATRICK       mmn MCANEMEY     
1894  Dec Quarter in LIVERPOOL  Volume 08B  Page 98
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Thursday 21 June 18 15:52 BST (UK)
There is a Patrick Brennan age 17 on 1911 census  .West derby sub district 4
Born Liverpool

Did he have a sister Catherine?
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Thursday 21 June 18 16:03 BST (UK)
Hi Sorry - all he knows is that Patrick Married Margaret Garvey in 1917
but very little is known of his family .

Tricky one this
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Thursday 21 June 18 16:15 BST (UK)
There is also a Patrick Brennan in West derby lancashier in 1901 aged 6

(Sorry don't have access to the image )

Do his army records give next of kins or parents names ?
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 21 June 18 16:17 BST (UK)
Just adding there were a couple of Patrick Brennan birth registrations the previous year but in West Derby reg district
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Thursday 21 June 18 16:22 BST (UK)
Merchant Navy : not army no next of kin listed

Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Deirdre784 on Thursday 21 June 18 16:24 BST (UK)
How amazing, there’s a photo of him on his merchant navy record 😀
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 21 June 18 16:25 BST (UK)
Hi Sorry - all he knows is that Patrick Married Margaret Garvey in 1917
but very little is known of his family .

Tricky one this

Presumably you don't have the marriage certificate which should give information on his father  :-\
According to LancashireBMD it was Liverpool, Register Office or Registrar Attended
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 21 June 18 16:31 BST (UK)
Mothers maiden name is similar
BRENNAN, MARY       mmn MCINERNEY     
GRO Reference: 1893  S Quarter in LIVERPOOL  Volume 08B  Page 44

1911 Possibility for Patrick & Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW1X-NGF
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: antonymark on Thursday 21 June 18 16:55 BST (UK)
Hi there,
From freebmd - Marriage Dec 1917 Liverpool v8b p89 Patrick Brennan married Margaret Garvey.
Regards, Tony.
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: iolaus on Thursday 21 June 18 17:25 BST (UK)
Do you have his children's names?

There is a family which may match potentially

Patrick Brennan aged 6 in 1901 and 16 in 1911 in Everton in Liverpool
Father James - a dock labourer from Ireland
Mother Mary E
Siblings James, Joseph, Thomas, Margaret, Mary, Edward and Martin

Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: carol8353 on Thursday 21 June 18 17:33 BST (UK)
There's a Dec 1988 death for a Patrick Brennan DOB 18 Dec 1894 in Knowsley Mersyside.

All we have to do is fill in the missing 94 years  ;D

Carol
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Thursday 21 June 18 17:35 BST (UK)
iolaus

Patrick Brennan was married in 1917 to Margaret Garvey

They had children later on but its the period before 1917 that is vague .

carol8353- that is correct DOD
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: carol8353 on Thursday 21 June 18 17:47 BST (UK)
Found his Catholic baptism at St Alban's Church Liverpool on 4 Jan 1895,DOB 18th Dec 1894.

Parents    Thomas Brennan and   Bridgide Mc Arrery? 

Of 13 Barmouth Rd/St ?
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: heywood on Thursday 21 June 18 18:50 BST (UK)
Good find Carol
Transcribed names from Latin
Marriage 21 July 1892

Thomas Brennan 13 Barmouth Street son of James
Bridget McNerney 13 Barmouth Street Father Patrick

Witnesses John Graham and Johanna McNerney (that might be Jane or Johanna)

Fits with Rosie’s initial suggestion
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: heywood on Thursday 21 June 18 19:10 BST (UK)
This looks good for 1911 - Patrick Brennan b Liverpool

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW1X-NGF

I should have read Rosie’s post re 1911   ::)
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: heywood on Thursday 21 June 18 19:31 BST (UK)
1911 fits with the witnesses to the marriage of Thomas and Bridget.

The child Albert Graham in 1911 has mmn McInerney.
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: heywood on Thursday 21 June 18 19:38 BST (UK)
1901 3409/63/38
13 Barmouth Street

Patrick McInerney 60 yrs
Mary McInerney   55 yrs
Bridget Breman   daughter 27 yrs widow b Ireland
Patrick Tracey 22 yrs
John Maker 23 yrs
Patrick Breman 7 yrs grandson
Mary Breman 7 yrs granddaughter
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Thursday 21 June 18 20:23 BST (UK)
Great find heywood

So Patrick and his sister Mary named after their maternal.grandparents 
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Thursday 21 June 18 22:14 BST (UK)
If there was only medals for the great people on here . I cannot thank you enough.

Who would think Brennan would be spelt Bremen !
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: heywood on Thursday 21 June 18 22:19 BST (UK)
If there was only medals for the great people on here . I cannot thank you enough.

Who would think Brennan would be spelt Bremen !

It does look like like ‘nn’ really but you would have to know that - so the transcriber wrote what they saw, I suppose.
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: garstonite on Friday 22 June 18 08:07 BST (UK)
go to
www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk
baptisms
Patrick
brennan
1895
search

For Full Details of this Baptism

1895-509 ST ALBAN 282-ALB-1-6 (663) 1894 1895 PATRICK BRENNAN - father THOMAS  mother BRIDGET McANERY  - REQUEST FORM

if you click on REQUEST FORM - YOU CAN BUY THAT CERTIFICATE FOR £3...and your neighbour can hang it on their wall ...lol
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Friday 22 June 18 09:33 BST (UK)
Found his Catholic baptism at St Alban's Church Liverpool on 4 Jan 1895,DOB 18th Dec 1894.

Parents    Thomas Brennan and   Bridgide Mc Arrery? 

Of 13 Barmouth Rd/St ?

No need to go to Liverpool History Projects (I don't think they provide a service now anyway people can't get a response from them) the baptism is on Ancestry see above.


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Friday 22 June 18 10:18 BST (UK)
Thank you everyone - It's starting to make much more sense!
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: carol8353 on Friday 22 June 18 12:21 BST (UK)
I see this has been moved to Lancashire, if your friend wants to go any further back we may be looking at Ireland of course  8)
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Friday 22 June 18 14:45 BST (UK)
HI Carol is that a needle in the haystack ? Any tips ? Thanks
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Friday 22 June 18 22:52 BST (UK)
Bridget McInerney

Birth in County Tipperary on 1 Feb 1872 (mother's surname is Tracey remember nephew Patrick Tracey was with family on the 1901 census):-

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1872/03260/2194973.pdf


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Friday 22 June 18 23:23 BST (UK)
Can anyone spot Thomas Brennan on any census records to give us a year of birth estimate? The GRO marriage record may be needed to get his approximate age and his father's occupation as it might difficult to find the right Thomas Brennan with any certainty. The RC church record says his father was James here's one of possibly numerous candidates, a County Tipperary birth in 1868:-

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1868/03428/2258219.pdf


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: carol8353 on Friday 22 June 18 23:32 BST (UK)
By 1901 Bridget says she is widowed,but I can't find a Thomas Brennan in Lancashire that I like the sound of. Maybe he went back to Ireland and died there?
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Friday 22 June 18 23:40 BST (UK)
As the birth for Bridget says and the 1871 marriage below, her father was a policeman he was in the RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary), here is Bridget's parents' marriage:-

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1871/11346/8165160.pdf


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Friday 22 June 18 23:42 BST (UK)
do we know that Thomas was born in Ireland

I.m interested in the various spellings of Bridget .I was always told mine Brigid was Irish spelling.   Can't access those Irish records shown
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Saturday 23 June 18 00:01 BST (UK)
They are viewable you need to follow the procedure for using the website ie do the captcha etc


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 00:46 BST (UK)
Here's Patrick McInnery with his family in 1881 Bridget aged 9

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27L-JY2F

In 1871 he was married but a labourer in a  boarding house in liverpool

Bridget s younger sisters Joanna and Catherine born in Seacombe
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Saturday 23 June 18 09:11 BST (UK)
Mary Ann McInerney's birth in 1868 which predates the marriage and Bridget's birth but includes both parents' names:-

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1868/03440/2263046.pdf


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Saturday 23 June 18 09:19 BST (UK)
In 1871 he was married but a labourer in a  boarding house in liverpool

Wasn't he more likely to still be in Ireland in 1871? He was a policeman in County Tipperary when Mary Ann was born in 1868, when he married in May 1871 and when Bridget was born in 1872.


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Saturday 23 June 18 09:23 BST (UK)
Blue - you are a hero . This is so fascinating. Glued!
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 10:35 BST (UK)
Blue:   I agree about Patrick McInnery but the one in 1871 is born Ireland and would fit if he is not with his wife and children

The marriage of Thomas BRENNEN and Bridget was in Liverpool. ..
Reply 14 &15

Has anyone  found him or hisomething fathere James in Ireland at all ...sorry if I miss the Irish records I do the captcha but the page disappears 
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Saturday 23 June 18 10:38 BST (UK)
GRO birth indexes

Name: Johanna McInarnay         
Mother: Gracy 
Quarter: Jan/Feb/Mar
Year: 1875
District: Birkenhead
Volume: 8a
Page: 550   
Occasional Copy: A 

Name: Catherine McInerney         
Mother: Tracy   
Quarter: Apr/May/Jun
Year: 1878
District: Birkenhead
Volume: 8a
Page: 576   


Blue



Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 10:45 BST (UK)
Well done for all those finds Blue

Bootle is not far from Birkenhead  I'm guessing Seacombe Cheshire is nearby too .
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Saturday 23 June 18 10:57 BST (UK)
Blue:   I agree about Patrick McInnery but the one in 1871 is born Ireland and would fit if he is not with his wife and children

The marriage of Thomas BRENNEN and Bridget was in Liverpool. ..
Reply 14 &15

Has anyone  found him or hisomething fathere James in Ireland at all ...sorry if I miss the Irish records I do the captcha but the page disappears

It looks like the McInerney family came to England between 1872 and 1875. Patrick registered the birth of Bridget on 9 March 1872 and he was still then a constable in County Tipperary. The first English birth was in 1875 in Wirral so initially they settled in Wirral then moved over the water to Bootle and Liverpool.

Thomas Brennan has not been found on the English census records so for more information about him it might be a good idea to get the civil version of the marriage record with his age, occupation and father's occupation on it.

If anyone is having problems accessing the Irish civil registration pdf record links message me with your e-mail address and I'll send you the confirmed McInerney records and the possible Thomas Brennan birth.


Blue 
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Sunday 24 June 18 00:04 BST (UK)
It might be a good idea to post asking for help and advice on the Ireland board about your RIC man. It's not an area of research I'm familiar with. There appears to be some records online so you may be able to find out more about Patrick. From what I can gather RIC men served in other counties not their county of birth so Patrick McInerney may have come from elsewhere, ie the surname is very common in County Clare. There may be an explanation for the marriage taking place after Mary Ann's birth. There appears to have been length of time served restrictions on RIC men marrying.

It appears to have been a tough job with low pay for a sub-constable, the bottom rank. Most police were Irish Catholics. They could be unpopular with local communities as there was discontent over landlords, land issues and British rule and the police were responsible for keeping law and order. The 1860s appears to have been a bit lively with the threat of a Fenian uprising but by the 1870s there are newspaper articles discussing possible reductions in police numbers in County Tipperary as things had quietened down. 

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/ireland/


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Sunday 24 June 18 12:01 BST (UK)
Mary or Maria Treacy/Trac(e)y's father was a labourer called Patrick and she was from Killea according to the 1871 marriage record. One of the witnesses was a Stephen Treacy. Possible death entry for her father Patrick at Killea in 1891 informant is son Stephen Treacy:-

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1891/06062/4728374.pdf

Patrick's wife, Mary/Maria's mother Mary died in 1885:-

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1885/06287/4801471.pdf


Mary was born at Coolcormack, County Tipperary to Patrick Tracy and Mary Armstrong and baptised on 30 Aug 1836:-

https://registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls000632698_011


Mary/Maria's brother Stephen Treacy on Irish census records at Killea, County Tipperary:-

1901

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003902514/


1911

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003356217/


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: wise1 on Monday 25 June 18 17:57 BST (UK)
Barmouth Street Liverpool!

Seems to pop up a lot ! Anyone have electoral rolls ? Or is that a trip to the Liverpool Library ?

Thanks so far
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Monday 25 June 18 19:57 BST (UK)
The Liverpool electoral registers are online and available to view free at all Liverpool libraries, the later the records the more people you will find on there. You can search in five year intervals. For the years in between you need to use the browse facility, a longer process, you need to locate the ward and polling district for the street and try to determine where it may appear in a large batch of records. I looked at the Liverpool street directories on Family Search (I don't have any subscriptions at the moment) unfortunately it's one of those streets the compilers overlooked. Here is a link to the electoral registers on Ancestry:-   

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61319


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 26 June 18 01:52 BST (UK)
I have access to ER on Ancestry  but have never looked by address
Talk me thru what or who to look for and I.ll make some time to look
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: garstonite on Tuesday 26 June 18 05:04 BST (UK)
http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/liverpoolaz/gi1012.htm

Barmouth Street runs between Boundary Lane and Athol Street - in the Vauxhall area of Liverpool.
I used to drink in The Athol Vaults - a beautiful pub ...sadly closed down - it is not far from the Dock area ...

http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/the-lost-pubs-of-liverpool/athol-vaults/
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Tuesday 26 June 18 10:16 BST (UK)
I have access to ER on Ancestry  but have never looked by address
Talk me thru what or who to look for and I.ll make some time to look

An example of how you would go about this is to take Patrick McInerney who we know was at 13 Barmouth Street on the 1901 census and search for him on the electoral registers. If you find him at that address you then have a way in to looking at other years by having the ward and polling district number for that street which is stated at the top of the page in the register.


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Tuesday 26 June 18 10:39 BST (UK)
I've found a way in. Do this search as per the spelling below:-

First name: Michael Patrick
Surname: Mc*nerney

You should get results for him at 13 Barmouth Street for years 1894/95, 1899/1900, 1904/05 and possibly other years. I can't view these records to investigate further.


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Tuesday 26 June 18 15:14 BST (UK)
I found the following electoral registers at my local library. Records for other years not listed below exist but I didn't get around to viewing them, no other household members are listed, remember this was before all adults had the vote:-

Michael McNerney, 13 Barmouth Street, 1884-85
Michael Patrick McInerney, 13 Barmouth Street, 1885-86, 1886-87, 1887-88, 1888-89, 1889-90, 1890-91, 1891-92, 1892-93, 1894-95, 1899-1900, 1904-05, 1905-06, 1907-08.


Do we have Patrick and Mary's burials at Ford Cemetery? If not here they are, the ages look well out though both would have been around 70 years rather than 60 years:-

Patrick McInerney, 13 Barmouth Street, 60 years, buried: 5 Jan 1908, Public grave: X 1118
Mary McNarney, 13 Barmouth Street, 61 years, buried: 18 Jun 1909, Public grave: X 1436?


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: brigidmac on Thursday 28 June 18 06:05 BST (UK)
Well done blue

I haven't learnt how to do the electoral search properly. I just. Come up with the  1 name
Other people seem to find address and names of others in household
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: Blue70 on Thursday 28 June 18 08:54 BST (UK)
These records are from before WW1 later records have more household members. Records from the 1920s and 1930s are more useful as they include other people living at the property.


Blue
Title: Re: Struggling with Neighbours Family history-HELP!
Post by: carol8353 on Thursday 28 June 18 09:00 BST (UK)
Don't forget that early records only showed the person eligible to vote- ie usually the man of the house.Women didn't get the vote until later. And electoral rolls only ever show those over 21 until 1971 when the voting age was lowered to 18.