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Merionethshire / Re: Corris where is/was Dolwen
« on: Wednesday 16 September 15 02:21 BST (UK)  »
It would be easier to work out where the house is or was from the census return.  Were the same family likely to have been living there in 1891 or 1901? 

There were a great many chapels in the area so being close to the chapel doesn't narrow it down much.

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Kildare / Re: Laurence McDonald from Castledermot
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 15:06 BST (UK)  »
That's fantastic - I'll get digging.  Thanks for your help Shane

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Kildare / Re: Laurence McDonald from Castledermot
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 14:25 BST (UK)  »
Almost certainly Catholic - certainly his daughter was.  Are there really records still around from that far back?

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Kildare / Laurence McDonald from Castledermot
« on: Monday 28 March 11 18:04 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking for help tracing the birth of Laurence McDonald who said he was from Castledermot and born in 1804.  Is there any chance of being able to trace this?


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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / McDonald in Castletown and Douglas
« on: Monday 31 January 11 17:22 GMT (UK)  »
I am searching for more records of my ggg grandparents and two of their children who show up in the 1861 and 1871 censuses.  I'd dearly like to know whether the parents died on the Isle of Man, how to get copies of the death certificates if they did, whether the daughters married and/or had children there and again how to get certificates.

In 1861 Laurence McDonald (b. 1804 in Ireland)is down as a librarian, sergeant major and pensioner in Castletown barracks. His wife Mary (b 1808-15, Ireland) is with him and so are two daughters Catherine (b.1844 in Ireland) and Ellen (b.1845 in Stockport).  The daughters are a milliner and  a dressmaker respectively.  By 1871 they are in Douglas at Wesley Terrace and he is instructor to the Rifle Volunteers.

There is also another member of the family James, born in Ireland in 1837, who I cannnot track after his childhood. Probably he died then but it is possible he was also in the army. 

Any church records will almost certainly be Catholic ones.

Does anyone have access to further references to them?  And if so would they be kind enough to look them up?  Thanks

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Armed Forces / Family life in the army - 19th century
« on: Friday 26 November 10 14:52 GMT (UK)  »
While looking into my family history, much of which involves men in the British Army, I've become more and more interested in the wives and children.  I just catch glimpses of them on census returns or, if I'm lucky, on baptism or burial records.  Whereas with the men there is a chance of records that fill in the picture for the rest of the family I find nothing.

Have any of you ever come across any sources of information on things like accomodation, travel, childbirth, education, religion - anything?

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