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Ireland / Re: Flu in Ireland in the late 1890s. Death certs inaccurate?
« on: Thursday 12 February 15 14:41 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: gaffy on Wednesday 11 February 15 04:59 GMT (UK)
I've had a look through newspapers from November 1897 to March 1898 and there is no indication of an "exceptional" outbreak of influenza in County Mayo or indeed more widely in Ireland, in fact the regular health reports from the Dublin area suggest that things were pretty quiet, with figures for scarlet fever, typhoid fever, influenza, diarrhoea and dysentry being slightly below the preceding 10 year average.

Thanks for doing that! That's interesting that there were no reports of it. It was a fairly rural area of Mayo, so perhaps, if there was a small outbreak, that it didn't warrant reporting. They must just have been a very unlucky family.

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Ireland / Re: Flu in Ireland in the late 1890s. Death certs inaccurate?
« on: Tuesday 10 February 15 14:09 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for the input! It's good to know that I can trust the death certificates then :)

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Ireland / Re: Flu in Ireland in the late 1890s. Death certs inaccurate?
« on: Friday 06 February 15 15:53 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Milliepede on Friday 06 February 15 15:32 GMT (UK)
Family stories sometimes are just stories and I don't see any reason a doctor would make up death causes like those. 

Not saying they didn't have the flu in their time but

Maybe it was a different set of 4 ancestors?

Yeah I hear ya. Hearsay is a terrible thing! The flu story (or some other contagious virus) does tally with the rest of the story, that the two sons had come home from England to look after their parents who were sick, and then they all died within a few months. I'm wondering now were the bronchitis, epilepsy, and stomach ulcer all side effects of a weakened immune system because of the Flu. Ironically, the eldest, who was the Mother, was the last to die.

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Ireland / Flu in Ireland in the late 1890s. Death certs inaccurate?
« on: Friday 06 February 15 15:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

I'm following up a family story that 4 of my ancestors died of the Flu, within about 2 months of each other in Dec 1897/Feb 1898 in Mayo. I have obtained their death certs and all four have given different causes of death:
Cancer of the stomach (3 months certified). Aged 68
Ulcer of the stomach (3 days certified). Aged 38
Bronchitis (3 weeks). Aged 63
Epilepsy (4 weeks certified). Aged 41

I have been googling flu outbreaks and haven't found any at that time in Ireland. Has anyone heard of any flu or other types of outbreaks at that time? Is it possible that these causes of deaths could have been made up by the doctor to prevent panic that there was an outbreak?

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Wales / Mother and Baby home run by nuns in North Wales
« on: Saturday 23 August 14 18:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

I've just heard that my ancestor briefly stayed in some sort of mother and baby home, in North Wales, run by nuns. She was unmarried so her baby was given up for adoption and the family never heard what happened the child. It would have been in the 1930's and possibly in the Prestatyn area. My ancestor was Irish, and returned home soon after but didn't have a good life unfortunately.

Would anyone know of such a place? Obviously Ireland has a bad rep with the Magdalene Laundries, so I'm hoping she wasn't in a similar type place.

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World War One / Re: Patrick O'Connor. Royal Munster Fusiliers
« on: Thursday 10 July 14 16:13 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Rudolf and thank you mmm45. That forum link was brilliant. I downloaded the war diary for the 8th batt RMF and tried to find him but no luck. So many wounded and killed that the officer didn't bother writing their names half the time, which is sad. But at least I can be fairly confident that that was his battalion and i know roughly where he was when wounded.

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World War One / Re: Patrick O'Connor. Royal Munster Fusiliers
« on: Saturday 05 July 14 19:21 BST (UK)  »
I don't have his medals I'm afraid. Lost in the family somewhere.

I just received this info from someone else:

"Silver War Badge entry for 5935 Patrick O'Connor, RMF. Discharged as a result of wounds."

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World War One / Patrick O'Connor. Royal Munster Fusiliers
« on: Saturday 05 July 14 16:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

I've had no luck finding my relative's WW1 service record on Ancestry, so I presume it didn't survive. But given I know the below details about him, are there any other ways I could find more about his time in the war?

Patrick O'Connor.
B. about 1895, Kerry.
Served with Royal Munster Fusiliers.
Received shrapnel wounds.
Survived and when he returned, was given a home in the Gap of Dunloe by the British Army (possibly under the Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust).
Died around 1929 due to complications with the shrapnel wounds.

I also know his wife and child's name.

Any push in the right direction appreciated  :)

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United States of America / Re: Hannah O'Connor, Kerry to San Francisco
« on: Friday 03 January 14 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
After weeks of searching i think I'm FINALLY getting somewhere!

So I got the marriage certificate of my great grandmother and I can confirm that Hannah's father was Timothy O'Connor. I couldn't find the family on the census records for such a long time because it turns out that they were incorrectly transcribed!

Timothy is down as 'Thimothy'..and my great grandmother (Mary or Molly) is down as 'Dollie'. No wonder I was pulling my hair out! In fairness the original document looks smudged so I'll forgive them. They have also dropped the 'O' and are all the 'Connors'. This is repeated on the 1911 census and also matches up with birth records I have found for Hannah's half siblings from Timothy's second marriage to Nancy Foley.

Here is a link to the 1901 census where Hannah can be found aged 16.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kerry/Churchtown/Killoughane/1416109/


I'm still working off the verbal history that her mother was Sullivan, however I haven't been able to find a marriage between Timothy O'Connor/Connor to anyone that matches for around 1885.

I'm guessing Hannah's mother died between 1891-1893 as that is gap when the last child is born from the first marriage, and the second marriage occurs in 1893.

I'm going to look back at everything that you guys have sent me and see if I can confirm or rule out anything.

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