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Family History Beginners Board / Re: New member needs a little help
« on: Tuesday 02 March 10 20:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks everyone for your help with this. Im still feeling a bit lost because I would have thought she would have appeared on the 1891 census . According to my G grandparents ages in 1893 she was 21 years old ( so 1872 birth ) . I cannot find her anywhere on the census for 1891 . Her father was James Mehan ( deceased at the time of marriage )

The nearest  I have found is on the LDS site a James Meehan & Mary Flaherty ( daughter Anne Meehan born 1872 ) there is no place or anything to go by  besides this  :-\.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: New member needsw a little help
« on: Monday 01 March 10 23:28 GMT (UK)  »
My Uncle & Aunty both met her & remember her with an Irish accent .

I also just read this brilliant post on one of the other pages which might sum this problem up .

Birth Place

It is not uncommon for birth places to be confused especially in larger urban areas.  Individuals providing information for, say, the census were unlikely to know anything about parish boundaries and gave their birth place as they understood  it.  In such cases,  it could be where they grew up, rather than their actual place of their birth.  In an age of great geographic mobility, many were born and then were baptised or spent their early years in a nearby parish or perhaps even far from their place of birth.  In more rural areas, individuals often give the nearby largest town as their place of birth when perhaps they were born in a village nearby.

It is therefore not unusual for an individual to give their birthplace as a 1) a neighbourhood name 2) a sub parish name 3) a parish 4) a county 5) a landmark or institution (e.g. a hospital) 6) the nearest larger town.  The information provided can also change from census to census.  In addition, it appears fairly common that individuals would give their place of birth as the place they were living at the time of the census; one can only guess that in response to the question of birth place, the person would probably have said ‘around here’ or ‘here’ or ‘locally’.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: New member needs a little help
« on: Monday 01 March 10 23:22 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your reply . 1901 - stated as "where born" Liverpool

1911 Liverpool .  I am not sure why she states this . Another frustration is that her Husband( G Gfather ) is from Wales
yet he states he's from Liverpool !!!!!!!  But I want to remain on the search for my GGM .

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Family History Beginners Board / New member needsw a little help
« on: Monday 01 March 10 23:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everyone , My G.G mother ( Annie mehan )is causing me some issues with finding where she came from & when she arrived in Liverpool to meet my Grandfather. Now I have their marriage certificate ( she was born in 1872 ) marries at 21 ( so 1893 ) in Liverpool with her father as listed as James Mehan deceased.

I have searched on the .familysearch site & this is the only record I can find with their name as " meehan " . Not the same spelling but did they use different spellings to avoid something or am I barking up the wrong tree????

Where do I look to ? I have the ancestry & census sites  but its this information that is eluding me.

Any help will be so welcome.

Thank you

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