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Tipperary / Searching for Clara Atkinson (nee Vandrill), b1891
« on: Wednesday 16 September 09 10:35 BST (UK) »
I'm trying to trace back my family into Ireland, particularly because it is of interested to my septuagenarian mother and her interest in tracing her mother and my great grandmother back to Ireland.
It's been difficult going so far, my great grandmother apparently liked to tell stories, (I only remember milk and cookies and how the 2-step ladder in the kitchen seemed so terribly tall at the time!) and there was some scepticism that in fact some details of her past were mis-recollected or perhaps even untruths.
But after overcoming some transcription errors I've found marriage certificates and passenger records in Canada and now with the full Irish 1911 census coming online, I'm happy to see that there is a Clara Vandrill in Cromac, Antrim of the correct age (20) and with the correct profession (dress maker) (she apparently taught everyone including my mother how to sew) and born in the right location (County Tipperary).
So that is one good foot on the other side of the ocean!
Now, I'm trying patiently to await the 1901 census but I am wondering if anyone out there can help me finding any information (particularly birth but really anything) about a Clara Vandrill, born 1891, County Tipperary, Roman Catholic, father Henry, mother Margaret Davis.
Any help is much appreciated.
It's been difficult going so far, my great grandmother apparently liked to tell stories, (I only remember milk and cookies and how the 2-step ladder in the kitchen seemed so terribly tall at the time!) and there was some scepticism that in fact some details of her past were mis-recollected or perhaps even untruths.
But after overcoming some transcription errors I've found marriage certificates and passenger records in Canada and now with the full Irish 1911 census coming online, I'm happy to see that there is a Clara Vandrill in Cromac, Antrim of the correct age (20) and with the correct profession (dress maker) (she apparently taught everyone including my mother how to sew) and born in the right location (County Tipperary).
So that is one good foot on the other side of the ocean!
Now, I'm trying patiently to await the 1901 census but I am wondering if anyone out there can help me finding any information (particularly birth but really anything) about a Clara Vandrill, born 1891, County Tipperary, Roman Catholic, father Henry, mother Margaret Davis.
Any help is much appreciated.