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Wiltshire / Re: Perrys of The Pelican Inn Devizes Wiltshire
« on: Saturday 14 January 17 23:08 GMT (UK)  »
To all who have offered help on this thread.
I have inherited a huge amount of research started in 1946 !
I can now understand the Perys of The Pelican who move to Southbroom after receiving a large inheritance. It is complicated by Perys marrying Perys but the inheritance includes a large family tree. At the moment I am trying to double check this with evidence.
If there are any Perrys out there from Devizes you may be linked to mine !
I also now have info as to whom some are interemarried to. I hope this may be of help to someone. Please ask if you think you may be related to the Perrys of Southbroom and previously of The Pelican. :)  :)  :)

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Wiltshire / Re: CHANDLER Family from Devizes
« on: Tuesday 03 January 17 22:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,I don't think any of my living family is related to Chandler. We think that a Richard Chandler could possibly be the first husband of Sarah possibly Maslen. In her will of around 1852 she leaves her money to Louisa Elizabeth Maslen Perry of Devizes and Hackney London. There is no mention of any children in her compressive will.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: perry's in wiltshire & perry green?
« on: Sunday 11 December 16 16:45 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again all,
I'm still transcribing the letters from Louisa Elizabeth Maslen Perry to the solicitor and the replies. At on point she is living in Paris and asks for her allowance to be sent to Mrs Parker in Paris. Interestingly that is the false name they go on to use when her daughter Mary gives birth to a daughter Lilian. I have followed and tracked Lilian who when she marries puts her grandfather's name for her father ! Her birth cert shows a William Parker as her father but I've never found anything that would show he even existed.
My main search continues to be the birth of Louisa Elizabeth Maslen who married John Perry in Devizes. The marriage was very much an on off affair and complicated by her husbands affairs and illegitimate children.
Louisa always States that her birth was Covent Garden. On her marriage cert,she gives her father as George Maslen. I know nothing about her mother but have wondered if the mother's maiden name may have been Sissons. The reason being that her only daughter is named Mary Sarah Sissons Perry.Louisa's sister is Sarah as is her Aunt who ran The Castle in Devizes. Having investigated the name Sissons it seems to come from Yorkshire. Unfortunately I can find no link for a George Maslen to a Sissons. As Louisa's younger sister was adopted it lead me to think the mother had died but of course maybe the father George had died to. The name Maslen is so common I'm Wiltshire it has proved impossible to find.
All the links in the earlier postings now make sense and are proved and tracked. I am so grateful for everyone's help.
Would anyone have ideas as to where to look for Louisa Elizabeth Maslen who marries John Perry in Devizes in 1846? She has a sister named Sarah who was adopted and I can track her with the help on this site.
Louisa fist appears on the 1841 Census in Devizes with her Aunt Sarah Grace. This is Sarah Grace's second marriage which I have tracked but only think that she was married to a Chandler before that. And exactly what the relationship was I'm still not sure even having ploughed through piles of legal documents !
It doesn't help that Louisa is known to change her name both on census records and legal paperwork. Also she lives with her husband's illegitimate daughters ,one of whom changes her name to Louisa !!!!
I have wondered that her real name may be Elizabeth and not Louisa at all and have searched for both Louisa and Elizabeth with a father George Maslen who was a grocer but all to no avail !
Can anyone think of anything else please? I think I'll have to face the fact that it's a very thick brick wall !!!!
All I can hope is that more documents may come on line over the years.
 :D This mad Santa exactly shows how I feel !
Happy Christmas to all. Miggs

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Cork / Re: Hegarty Lahardane Skibbereen
« on: Friday 09 September 16 09:57 BST (UK)  »
Sin an and Whl,
Thank you for your messages.
Isn't it wonderful what some people will do.
I still can't believe it.
Yes, saw the Irish records yesterday,that will be many happy hours or should I say years ??!!! In front of a computer on winter nights. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

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Cork / Re: Hegarty Lahardane Skibbereen
« on: Thursday 08 September 16 23:46 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much.
I'll get back to you tomorrow I've just come in from a genealogy meeting.
I still can't get over your kindness at trying to find out who they are.
I always feel that my ancestors made me who I am so I have much to be grateful for .
Miggs. 🙂🙂🙂

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Cork / Re: Hegarty Lahardane Skibbereen
« on: Thursday 08 September 16 18:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi again,
I am so grateful that you thought to find the photos "home". Annie's home was Laharadane which is a tiny area of land in Castlehaven Skibbereen. It is about a mile away from The Atlantic right in the south west corner of Ireland. I don't think she or her brothers and sisters ever returned. She would have been born and brought up on a farm and any schooling would have been at a school on the beach at Tragumna. Her parents were Patrick Hegarty and Mary Driscoll. Annies's sister was my grandmother. I didn't meet her either as my mother was one from youngest out of ten and she didn't marry and have me until thirty five so the older relatives died before I was born.
I return to Skibbereen every year. It is very expensive but I always say I am "going home" even though I wasn't born there.
It is a beautiful country with wonderful people and very different to England.
Would you be willing to send the album to the UK ? Of course I would pay all your costs. I just can not believe the coincidence of you finding the photos and then finding me on Roots Chat. The wonders of ICT !
Annie and her brothers and sisters married but did not return home. It must have been so sad for their parents. At least when my mother who would have been her niece, came to the UK they knew they would be able to go home and regularly did.
As a family we are still in contact with second and third generation that went to Boston and New York but have no idea about the Hegartys apart from the bits I picked up on genealogy. They ended up in Deer Park Anaconda Montana.
If you would be willing to let the album "come home" please let me know how much it will cost and I can pay you with PayPal.
Thank you again for rescuing it and trying to find me.
Miggs.       'Full Circle'. 🙂🙂🙂

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Cork / Re: Hegarty Lahardane Skibbereen
« on: Thursday 08 September 16 10:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
This is amazing and absolutely unbelievable. I am sooo excited . Annie Hegarty was one of my great Aunts. Three of my grandmothers sisters went to the USA and we had no idea where.
With help from someone called Skibgirl who is a genealogist I managed to track them down to Montana. The records of Deer Park were excellent and gave their names and their parents names so I know it is definitely them. Birth dates and place correct too. As far as I know nothing more was heard but it may be that when my grandmother died in Ireland in 1955 the letters etc were lost as the farm had to be sold shortly after.
We have no photographic record of this part of our family but think that there are descendents still living there by looking at Montana records. We know they were in Anaconda.
I just can not believe it !!! '
I've been doing the research but there are many great nephews and nieces in Ireland who await my next piece of info ! I live and was born in the UK. Thank you for posting this letter and looking for a link. The photos you put in came through fine. We have one photo that came home from America around 1960. It was brought over by a visiting American family but no one can remember who they were. We are pretty certain that it is the brothers and sisters when they first went out.
I would be so glad to hear from you again. Such an amazing piece of good fortune.
Would you be interested in parting with it ?
Can you say exactly where you bought it as it may give a link as to where the next generations are living.
Thank you so much for making the effort to contact.
Miggs

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: perry's in wiltshire & perry green?
« on: Tuesday 06 September 16 09:59 BST (UK)  »
Hi again all,
Just transcribed some more paperwork from the Chippenham Record office.
Very interesting reading They are solicitors letters to and from my great great grandmother.
Confirms that they were living as Parker in 1871 census.
Confirms the two daughters Emily and Alice just appear on the scene . Solicitor asked who they are ?
Louisa avoids answering but makes reference to her husband John Perry. They may be living together again.
She refers to her illness of seven years,epilepsy, which later she is in a mental hospital for.
She constantly is asking for money,dividends to live on and money for my great grandmother's school fees.
These letters cross reference with info gleaned from various other sources. The most important being that they were living under an assumed name in the 1871 census. We believe because the daughter Mary ,my great grandmother gave birth to what is possibly an illegitamate child. I have the birth cert and a father is recorded but I can not find him anywhere else. Yet more legal documents state that Mary was married to a cousin and then again that she was never married.
It appears from the letters that a Mrs Chandler who is something to do with the solicitor Dixon may have been a friend of Louisa's
It also confirms the unexpected death of John Perry's brother William and that they will now inherit even more !

Just to say that the search goes on and all the help people have given is so appreciated. Slowly getting there.
Next bit is Loisa Elizabeth write from Paris asking for money! What's she doing there ? Where is her daughter Mary ?
Louisa and her sister Sarah both leave Devizes as it appears that Sarah who had a milliners business where her sister Louisa worked when her husband John left her,had run up huge debts ! Where did they go ? One address is Refent Street London. We wondered whether she may have become a high class prostitute ?!!
Again thank you. The puzzle continues.

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Cork Resources & Offers / Re: Castlehaven and Myross Tithe Applotment transcriptions are available
« on: Thursday 18 August 16 11:26 BST (UK)  »
Skibb girl,
Update ! Just in case you may be linked to mine !
Bridget Bohane dob 1918
Peter Bohane 1864 m Ellen Hegarty 1877
Ellen from Lahardane next to Killaderry daughter of Pat Hegarty and Mary Driscoll
Mary Driscoll from Drishane (Tragumna Not Castletownsend) her parents were William Driscoll and Anne Attridge ( the Attridges were sponsors for Hegarty baptisms)
Peter Bohane's father was Michael Bohane and as I've said in earlier posts I can not prove the link back to Daniel and Denis but as we'd been in Killaderry for ever the link IS there!
Maybe you are linked to some of these ?
I've also found Hegartys in Montana including great aunts and cousins that were completely lost to
us . And that was all from a link suggestion you gave me . Many many thanks. 🙂🙂🙂

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