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Cheshire / Re: Utkinton Hall, Cheshire
« on: Tuesday 19 April 22 20:53 BST (UK) »
Thanks, I did the old fashioned thing last week and went to Chester Library. YOur help appreciated very much.
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Cheshire / Re: Utkinton Hall, Cheshire
« on: Monday 11 April 22 10:23 BST (UK) »
Good morning all, I'm Chair of Utkinton PC and have been trying to get an online edition of Cheshire Country Houses - can anyone help?
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Cumberland / Re: Frank Tunney, Harrington, c.1923
« on: Monday 22 October 12 00:27 BST (UK) »
Its as long story but my father was a brother to two sisters and a half-sister (MLT), a lot of the miners from the North East 'migrated' to the Midlands during the war and the Tunneys and McDonoughs are well populated there. The irony is that the Tunneys also came from Cumbria but all originated in Ireland.
My 'spin' on this is that, somehow they managed to list Francis (Frank) Tunney as the father but as he had been dead for 8 years something was concocted on the grounds of respectability to enable Mary C and MLT + brothers and sisters to return back to Northumberland. I guess whoever the father is, he was a fruit farmer in real life and (in the well known movie catchphrase) 'only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
One day I will unearth the story - but I have other generations to explore...
Uncle H
My 'spin' on this is that, somehow they managed to list Francis (Frank) Tunney as the father but as he had been dead for 8 years something was concocted on the grounds of respectability to enable Mary C and MLT + brothers and sisters to return back to Northumberland. I guess whoever the father is, he was a fruit farmer in real life and (in the well known movie catchphrase) 'only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
One day I will unearth the story - but I have other generations to explore...Uncle H
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Cumberland / Re: Frank Tunney, Harrington, c.1923
« on: Sunday 21 October 12 22:52 BST (UK) »
What confuses me here is the reference to him being a fruit farmer, I would love to find reference to the father elsewhere. it is likely that Mary had a dalliance and I would love to resolve the story.
Uncle H
Uncle H
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Cumberland / Re: Frank Tunney, Harrington, c.1923
« on: Sunday 21 October 12 22:22 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that, but the Frank (my grandfather) there was killed at the Somme in 1915. He was a miner, it is either a clerical error of Mary remarried another Frank Tunney - I am puzzled.
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Cumberland / Frank Tunney, Harrington, c.1923
« on: Sunday 21 October 12 20:37 BST (UK) »
I'm looking for records/evidence of a Frank/Francis Tunney listed as Father of Margaret Laura Tunney b.1923, Harrington. He is listed as a fruit farmer, can anyone help?
Uncle heFTy
Uncle heFTy
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Durham / Re: Durham Light Infantry
« on: Saturday 29 September 12 19:41 BST (UK) »
They are all Tunney, of one initial or other
Uncle H
Uncle H
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Durham / Re: Durham Light Infantry
« on: Saturday 29 September 12 11:00 BST (UK) »
Actually Derek, you make cogent sense. For me history comes alive with pictures and to find none is frustrating in the extreme. The problem is that many of the generations we are seeking to find were either too poor or didn't have access to the luxury of photographs and those who did don't look after them (or perhaps I'm being a tad disingenuous here) - but immortality relies on pictorial and aural records.
I have a picture of my great-grandfather only because he posed for a shot with some colleagues as part of recording the work of a colliery, we found out much about our history from "A history of Brandon" but everything else has been through forensic research or the available data (I wish they would release the 1920 and 1930 censuses) and inspired guess-work. We live too far to visit the DLI museum and archive but will make the trip before long.
We know that my grandfather died at Ypres (or thereabouts) and the army records on the web are scant so it will be by 'talking' to others and unlocking that door, or pushing one that is slightly ajar (as I have done this week and revealed two generations further back) and finding that piece of information that will allow us to see more.
Forgive my ramble, but...
Uncle H
I have a picture of my great-grandfather only because he posed for a shot with some colleagues as part of recording the work of a colliery, we found out much about our history from "A history of Brandon" but everything else has been through forensic research or the available data (I wish they would release the 1920 and 1930 censuses) and inspired guess-work. We live too far to visit the DLI museum and archive but will make the trip before long.
We know that my grandfather died at Ypres (or thereabouts) and the army records on the web are scant so it will be by 'talking' to others and unlocking that door, or pushing one that is slightly ajar (as I have done this week and revealed two generations further back) and finding that piece of information that will allow us to see more.
Forgive my ramble, but...
Uncle H
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Durham / Re: Durham Light Infantry
« on: Saturday 29 September 12 00:15 BST (UK) »
1St/8th DLI; he was killed in february 1915 at the Ypres Salient. His brothers were in the Northumberland Fusiliers and also the 1st/5th DLI. I first knew about this when I went to Ypres and saw the Menin Gate - probably 15 years ago, it was gut-wrenching.
Uncle h
Uncle h