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London and Middlesex / Re: solicitor, Marylebone ca 1900
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 15:32 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Louisa!

I'll definitely have to follow that up (I don't know what he'd be doing in Staffordshire, but stranger things have happened).

965
London and Middlesex / solicitor, Marylebone ca 1900
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 11:56 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have access to a list of solicitors, or know where I might look?

My great-uncle James Clement BROWN was b. in Preston, Lancs., 1870.
He was a solicitor in Marylebone in the 1901 census and I think later in Westminster.  I now discover that he m. in Dublin in 1902 Annie Beatrice Martin.  His relatives were never allowed to meet her: don't know whether he was ashamed of her Cork accent or what.  She admitted to 30 in 1911 but could have been younger.

There was a dau. Brigit Beatrice b. in SW London on 12 Mar. 1909.
I have found no marriage for her and no death for any of them.
They may have used the surname Clement-Brown, but I draw blanks there too.  Any suggestions welcome!


966
Antrim / Patten family, Streamville, Lisburn
« on: Tuesday 29 March 11 13:14 BST (UK)  »
Who knows something about this family?

I think that the Rev. Francis Patten (ca 1745 -1825), sometime rector of Magheragall, was the youngest son of the Rev. William Patten of Streamville.  That in 1769 he m. Rebecca, youngest dau. of George Higginson of Magheragall parish.

Rebecca's eldest sister Elizabeth m. Hugh Casement, and their granddau. Jane m. either James or John Patten (ca 1778 -1826).  Could he have been a son of Francis & Rebecca?  The generations can easily slip like that (there's 17 years between me and my 'kid' sister, for example).

Can anyone add anything relevant?

967
Down / Gillespie, Comber
« on: Tuesday 29 March 11 11:25 BST (UK)  »
Elizabeth Casement was m. in Calcutta cathedral on 26 June 1826 to Capt. R. Rollo Gillespie of the 4th Light Dragoons, AdC to the governor-general.

Was that Robert Rollo?  But I thought he was in the 25th?  And anyway he seems to have had a couple of other wives (not at the same time, presumably).  I think Elizabeth must have d. by 1833.
Can anyone shed any light?

968
Antrim / Re: John Gaston & Elizabeth McCartney, Ballymena
« on: Tuesday 29 March 11 08:45 BST (UK)  »
Stafford Church was a merchant who I think lived at Brocklamont House near Ballymena.  His wife Mary was the 2nd dau. of Hugh Harrison of Churchfield House (Magherintemple) near Ballycastle.  She d. in Dublin 27 Dec. 1847 "aged 80" acc. to the announcement in Freeman's Journal though I think she was just 79.  They had married by 1809: can anyone tell me when?
Yes, I'm fairly sure they were childless.

Thomas Davison of Glenarm was a brother of Alexander of Knockboy, Broughshane, who leased the Raceview mill from Mary's brother Robert Harrison.  There were later a couple of Harrison/Davison marriages, but that was after Stafford Church's death.  Stafford Davison was b. 1823, acc. to a Davison chart in the PRONI.

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