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Tipperary / John Cooney, Tipperary early 1800's
« on: Friday 16 January 15 03:29 GMT (UK)  »
Searching for John Cooney, married to Bridget.  Lived in Tipperary.  Son also John born around 1820 and who came to Australia around 1840 ish. There is a family story that John jnr was a convict. We have the death certificate of John Jnr,he died 1875 and his father and mothers name is on that.  John Snr is down as being a labourer and he is deceased. We also have wedding certificate of John jnr and harriet mary Herring/Hearne.  We think John jnr left Ireland around 1840 to come to Australia.  John snr could have been born around the late 1700’s

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Lancashire / Re: help tracing mary prescott nee belshaw born 1792 living in hindley
« on: Monday 29 December 14 01:03 GMT (UK)  »
I have many Prescotts on my tree from this area, i will check.

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Lancashire / Re: Skeet - Atherton/Tyldesley area ? Joseph Neal(e) - same area
« on: Monday 14 October 13 22:07 BST (UK)  »
Ted, could very well be.  I know there is a link to Newall, they were coal miners - might they have been working their way round all the pits, as one closed they moved to another. Mums dad Joseph Neal died when he was 25 ish and she really doesn't remember any of her relatives from that side of the family.  We'll keep digging, we might still be cousins LOL.  Strange co-incidence that they were down as Freemans in one of the census.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Murphy's in Maesteg
« on: Thursday 23 June 11 05:27 BST (UK)  »
Okay, fast forward a bit to my friends mothers time.  He's just remembered that his mother Elizabeth Murphy (the daughter of Joseph Murphy and Elizabeth Ann Spencer) married a John Murphy who was a baker in Maesteg, her sister Eileen married john murphys brother.
This was probably in the late 30's or the early 1940's.  Both sisters left the murphy boys and remarried. Eileen remarried a man with the surname Crocker/croker.  Both sisters came to australia.

J

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Glamorganshire / Re: Murphy's in Maesteg
« on: Thursday 23 June 11 04:30 BST (UK)  »
On the 1891 census she is down as being born in Maesteg.

I've read up on the history of Maesteg and Caerau and learnt that there was a large influx of Irish (not all legal).  I've also been told that a John Murphy is down on the Memorial as dying in the great war. Don't know if he is connected or the same john murphy down as Joseph' father.
I'm just nipping dowen the road now to get the names of the friends aunts and uncles and maybe try to jog his memory about family stories.

J

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Glamorganshire / Re: Murphy's in Maesteg
« on: Wednesday 22 June 11 03:59 BST (UK)  »
Jospeh Murphy is down as a coal miner. He was 23 at the time of the 1909 wedding. I checked out the witnesses - Agnes Begley (thought she could be a reli with a married name), couldn't find her in Maesteg. Then William Cookesley(?), couldn't find him either.

Elizabeth Ann the daughter was born in Caerau Rd, Caerau, Maesteg in 1915.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Murphy's in Maesteg
« on: Tuesday 21 June 11 04:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi there Carole, I couldn't find any matches to look up in the 1911, for all permutations of any of the names.
My friend says his mother refused to talk about her life before Australia, lots of family secrets.

I'm trying all ways to just move that one brick, but it refuses to budge.

 It doesn't help that they were flitting back and forth between Maesteg and Wolsingham in Durham.
I have a couple of clues through someones family tree that might validate that I actually have the right Spencer Family.

You would think I would learn when someones says to me, can you help me find my roots.  But I just can't resist the hunt.


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Glamorganshire / Murphy's in Maesteg
« on: Monday 20 June 11 23:16 BST (UK)  »
Hoping that someone can help find a link. It is important that a family friend finds his irish ancestry.
He has very little to go on.  He also has very little on his welsh roots also.

Joseph William Spencer (b. around 1867 in Wolsingham, Durham) married a Mary ? (b. Maesteg around 1870)

They are down as being in Durham in the 1891 census.

Their daughter Elizabeth Ann Spencer married a Joseph Murphy at St. Patricks in March 1909 and had a daughter also Elizabeth in 1915.  Joseph William Spencer (coal miner) is down as deceased at this time.
Joseph Murphys father is down as John Murphy, General Labourer.

Elizabeth the daughter also married a Murphy, but left him and came to Australia with her new husband. I think there were two other sisters and a brother. 


Many thanks in anticipation

Jan

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Wiltshire / Re: Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks
« on: Thursday 30 December 10 09:08 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that.  Its so frustrating when you are on the hunt and then you hit that brick wall.  I suppose I'll have to go do the housework or some other boring thing instead.

Jan

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