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Lanarkshire / Re: Help with adoption
« on: Tuesday 25 June 19 20:05 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
Saw your post re adoption.
I can give you all the information that you require.  Isabella and John were my parents.
Problem with privacy, because I can't post this information in a public forum and Rootschat doesn't let us publish our email addresses.
I don't know how we can get around this. Unless the administrator can give you my email address privately, which I'm happy to give permission for.
What do you think?

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Lanarkshire / Re: grove street glasgow
« on: Tuesday 17 January 12 06:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
Yes, you are right, I was quite young then, but I think there were two Cameron families in Grove Street.  Number 79 would have been at the Garscube Road end, while Grove Street Primary School was down at the other end, on the corner of St. Peter's Street.  I don't remember much about the Camerons, except my older brother had a friend called John Cameron who would have been born around 1945.

Raglan Street ran between North Woodside Road and Garscube Road. St Joseph's RC Primary School in those days was on North Woodside Road, and they had the famous playground on the roof.  St Joseph's is still there, but the Raglan Street that I remember is long gone (good!).  All of this area, known as the Cowcaddens was demolished in the early 1970s.  Some parts survive, but Grove Street School is gone, as is the Grove Street Institute and many other landmarks. There is a new Abercorn School there now.

My late parents would certainly have known your family, as my father grew up in the area and went to St. Josephs.  Sorry I can't be more helpful.  I do have my father's school photograph from St. Josephs circa. 1935.
Cheers
Maz

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Lanarkshire / Re: grove street glasgow
« on: Monday 16 January 12 13:02 GMT (UK)  »
I started school in 1955 at Grove Street Primary.  We lived around the corner in Abercorn Street, Cowcaddens.  How can I help?
Cheers
Maz.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Death registered at Possilpark,Glasgow 1936, burial?
« on: Monday 16 January 12 12:36 GMT (UK)  »
There's a big cemetery at Springburn, on the main road going in.  Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it.  It's closer to Possilpark than Lambhill.  You could give it a try.
Cheers
Maz

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Australia / Re: O'BRIEN family Moggill Pioneers
« on: Saturday 14 January 12 13:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Maxine

My apologies.  That date 10 September 1857 wasn't the marriage date of Charles and Catherine News.  Sorry.  It was the baptism date of their son John.  He was baptised at Shankill RC Lurgan on 10 September 1857 and John Hogan and Margaret McCorry were his sponsors.

Cheers
Mary


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Australia / Re: O'BRIEN family Moggill Pioneers
« on: Saturday 14 January 12 12:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Maxine
Wondering if we have a connection.  I'm a direct O'Brien descendant.  My O'Briens were from Lurgan, County Armagh.  I've done a lot of research on Lurgan.  I've often wondered if Charles O'Brien, who married Catherine News at Shankill RC Church, Lurgan on 10 September 1857 is related to my Joseph O'Brien (born c.1831) husband of Margaret Patterson.  I took number of BDMs from the Shankill register microfilm a few years back.  According to my research on the marriage of Charles O'Brien and Catherine News, the witnesses at their wedding were John Hogan and Margaret McCorry.  Does this tally with the information you have on this family?  I also have a baptism of:

Edward O'Brien, son of Charles and Catherine News, on 11 May 1859 at Shankill, Lurgan. Sponsor: Pat News.

Mary O'Brien, daughter of Charles and Catherine News, on 30 August 1860 at Shankill Lurgan.  Sponsors: James Coulter and Mrs News.

Charles, son of Charles and Catherine News, on 19 July 1856 at Shankill, Lurgan.  Sponsors: Edward and Mary J. News.

Let me know if this is your family and maybe we can work out if there's a connection between our families.
Cheers, Mary

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Armagh / Re: O'Brien Patterson Ditty of Lurgan
« on: Thursday 12 January 12 07:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I think Elwyn answered your question admirably.  My family crossed the water to work in the shipyards of the Clyde.  Some of them worked on the Forth Bridge near Edinburgh, and some on the new railway system.  A lot of Irish people used to work seasonally in Scotland in the agriculture sector.

If you could come up with anything on O'Brien and Ditty in Northern Ireland, that would be fantastic.  Family oral tradition says that the O'Briens were originally from County Clare before they went to the north.

Many thanks
Maz :)

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Armagh / Sheena Mac re Patterson
« on: Thursday 05 January 12 12:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Sheena
Please get in touch. I've made a lot of progress with the Pattersons.

cheers
Maz.

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Armagh / O'Brien Patterson Ditty of Lurgan
« on: Thursday 05 January 12 11:38 GMT (UK)  »
I've just joined and posting my interests:

Looking for the family of Joseph O'Brien and his wife Mary Ditty, both born early 1800s.

Their son Joseph O'Brien and his wife Margaret Patterson had their family in Lurgan and moved to Glasgow in the late 1870s.

The O'Briens were tenant farmers of Lord Lurgan (Charles Brownlow) and lived in the hamlets of Boconnel, Drumnakelly and Knockramer.  These were all part of the Brownlow Estate.  I have a book about the Brownlow Estate which mentions many leaseholders.  Look ups available.

Joseph was born c.1831, his brother William c.1834 in Armagh.

I suspect, although have not proved, that Joseph was related to Charles O'Brien and his wife Mary McAlindon.  Many of the tenants on the Brownlow Estate followed the O'Briens to Glasgow, i.e. the Cassidys, Haugheys.


cheers
Maz.

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