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Hi all,
I have the possible surname in my tree Mckeallaich
Those in my distant family researching believe this was used when the surname McDonald was no longer allowed to be used. ??
Just wondering if anyone else has come across this name ?

Sue   

Just wondering if I can have a fresh pair of eyes, please.
I have an x 2 great grandfather, his name is a quandary. On his son Thomas's birth certificate in 1867, he gives his name as collexter George Brown. this is the only birth certificate of any of his children where he uses collexter. He does use it on some of their baptisms, but nowhere else. On the 1851 census, he is with his mother Ann j, brother Frederick and sister Ellen and you can just make the collexter out. His father Edward is on holiday in Clerkenwell goal. I have is birth about 1845 possibly Paddington or Marylebone Middx and as an adult, he is either a carpenter or painter. It is probable and I will have to live with the fact he may never have had his birth registered and he probably was never baptized as his father was possibly in prison. Years ago I ordered about 5 birth certificates for a George Brown Marylebone as this was where the family was living and on censuse, he gives Paddington as did his mother on the 1851 census.
Collexter is such a strange name and my gran remembers he was collexter.


Any fresh ideas would be welcomed as I have been trying to find info on him for the last 25 years.
PS do you know how many George Brown's there are for about 1845 in Marylebone and paddington.


Kind regards

Sue Ault

I am going to ask a really silly question,
but how do I find a death in Jersey.

 sue ault 

Hi all
Happy new year

Can I ask if a child is baptised would the parents need to say where they are from. I know as Church of England you have to live in the diocese of the church in which you either wish to marry or have children baptised.
I have 2 Irish catholic ancestors, one is a Elizabeth Cronin and I sort of believe she maybe from Cork. I cannot find a marriage of my Great x 3 Grandparents and as my x 3 great grandfather died in 1840 In Southwark surrey, and his wife remarried three years later in a Belgium catholic Chapple in Bloomsbury London stating she was a spinster. I digress here as my x 2 great grandmother a Mary Ann Moore had her children baptised in a catholic church in Marylebone London, and I have copies of baptisms and they are all in latin, so when mary Ann first arranged the first of her childrens baptisms, would she have to state where in Ireland she originated.

Hope this makes sense as I am clutching at straws as to where Mary Ann originated from in Ireland.

ta
sue ault

Anyone possibly have any of the Davies clan

from Killarnie  Ayrshire



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