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Laois (Queens) / How can someone still be so elusive
« on: Tuesday 31 July 18 19:13 BST (UK) »
After taking a break for quite a few years I have picked up tracing my ancestry again.
I am still looking for my great grandmother Ellen Ross (Nee Burke), also known as Helena and Nellie.
She was born 23rd march 1906 and had a twin brother Thomas Burke. They were born in Mountmellick. Her father was William Burke and her mother was Ellen Burke, nee Roberts, nee Adaire.
She had a half sister Mary Roberts and half brothers William and John Roberts. I have the family on the 1911 census and know she married William Ross in August 1923 in Mountmellick and then moved to Kildare to have 3 children. This is where my information on her ends. I can find absolutely nothing on her after this date.
I have travelled over to Dublin twice to search records but with zero results.Ellen and William had( my nana) Lena , Kathleen and Christopher. When my nan was asked about her mum she just said she died when she was little and Kathleen said the same. Sadly, Christopher would have no contact with his sister's and his family still want no contact. Ellen's husband came to England (Stoke on Trent) in the 1950's, but came on his own and his death certificate doesn't state if he was single, widowed or divorced.
I have also not been able to find anything on her half siblings either. Surely, if she had died, then a record would exist somewhere or did she abandon her family ?
Any help or suggestions would be so very much appreciated as after 13 years, I am still none the wiser.
Many thanks
Michelle
I am still looking for my great grandmother Ellen Ross (Nee Burke), also known as Helena and Nellie.
She was born 23rd march 1906 and had a twin brother Thomas Burke. They were born in Mountmellick. Her father was William Burke and her mother was Ellen Burke, nee Roberts, nee Adaire.
She had a half sister Mary Roberts and half brothers William and John Roberts. I have the family on the 1911 census and know she married William Ross in August 1923 in Mountmellick and then moved to Kildare to have 3 children. This is where my information on her ends. I can find absolutely nothing on her after this date.
I have travelled over to Dublin twice to search records but with zero results.Ellen and William had( my nana) Lena , Kathleen and Christopher. When my nan was asked about her mum she just said she died when she was little and Kathleen said the same. Sadly, Christopher would have no contact with his sister's and his family still want no contact. Ellen's husband came to England (Stoke on Trent) in the 1950's, but came on his own and his death certificate doesn't state if he was single, widowed or divorced.
I have also not been able to find anything on her half siblings either. Surely, if she had died, then a record would exist somewhere or did she abandon her family ?
Any help or suggestions would be so very much appreciated as after 13 years, I am still none the wiser.
Many thanks
Michelle