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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Passenger Lists to India from the UK - 1850s - Hallifax & Cox
« on: Wednesday 18 September 13 22:59 BST (UK)  »
In 1860, Benjamin Wilson Hallifax and Mary Ann Cox were married at the Church of St. John, Calcutta.  Benjamin was from Islington, London and Mary Ann was from Tiverton, Devon.  Where did they meet?  On a boat to India?  Which boats and when?  Was Mary Ann on her own?  Was this an elopement?  So many questions and no answers!

We know Benjamin, born 1833, got a job as Assistant to the Bengal Secretariat when he got to India sometime in the 1850s.  He later became a prosperous manager and proprietor of a 400-acre tea plantation and left nearly 30,000 Pounds when he died in 1906 back in England.  We know nothing of Mary Ann, born 1836, apart from the census records up to 1851 when she lived with her mother and father, Robert and Maria, in Tiverton.

If anyone has access to passenger lists to India in the 1850s, can you please either do a look-up for me or give me the sites so I can search myself.

Many thanks.
Chris

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Limerick / The DUFFS of Limerick
« on: Wednesday 05 January 05 02:03 GMT (UK)  »
Originally, I posted a message on the Clare site, but I've since learned my DUFF family came from Limerick.  My great-grandfather, Patrick Duff, was born circa 1815 in County Limerick, maybe even Limerick itself, and is known to have died in 1886.  He married Maria Kiely (Kelly?) who was born in 1838 and died in 1874.

They had children:
AMY (1870-1891).  She married Jack Pigott in 1890 and died possibly in childbirth.
JAMES CHARLES (1863-1928).  He married Maud Squance in 1894 in England.  An army man in England most of his life.
AGNES (1866-1943).  She married Francis Fahy in 1891 and lived in England.

Great-grandfather Patrick may have had a wife before Maria, because he had a daughter, Kate, who was born in 1850 and died in 1936 in England.  She was known to be James's and Agnes's step-sister.  She ran a hotel in Lisdoonvarna for a time, maybe in the 1890s.

My project in retirement is to trace my Duff lineage back from great-grandfather Patrick Duff to wherever it leads me.  My father once told me our Duff lineage originated in Scotland, possibly Banffshire.  I've tried one or two sources and haven't been able to find any Duffs in Limerick or Clare at all!

Any help from any source would be gratefully received.

Chris Duff

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Clare / The DUFF family name.
« on: Tuesday 16 November 04 00:07 GMT (UK)  »
According to my father and his brother, both now deceased, their father Charles James DUFF was born in or around Lisdoonvarna in 1864.  He had two step-sisters, Agnes, who died in London (I don't know when) and Kate, who married Francis Fahy the poet/balladeer and founder of the Gaelic League.  Kate and Francis had four sons, Connor, Dermot and the other two we don't know the names.

I have searched the census records available on the Internet and can't find a DUFF anywhere in the region of and surrounding Lisdoonvarna.  Does anyone out there share the name DUFF from the west of Ireland?

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Banffshire / The MURISON family name.
« on: Monday 15 November 04 17:47 GMT (UK)  »
My grandfather, John Murison (1871-1944), was able to trace his ancestry back to his namesake, John Murison (c1690-c1765), whose name appears in 1732 as the holder of the tack or lease of the croft of Crossford on the lands of Alexander Garden, the Laird of Troup.  Many of his descendents remained in the Troup, Gamrie, Alvah and Itlaw area of Banffshire for the next 200 years and many lie buried in the Kirkyards of Alvah and Gamrie.

I would be interested to hear whether any Murisons from this line are still in the area.  Has anyone researched the Banffshire Murison name, its origins and where the Murisons came from before settling in Banffshire?  One interesting aspect of this family name is that the spelling has been consistent for 300 years.

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