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Laois (Queens) / Re: How can someone still be so elusive
« on: Tuesday 31 July 18 20:41 BST (UK)  »
I really have and have spent thousands of pounds of flights , accommodation, copies of records and donations to various churches for any help they could give me.

Thank you for trying to help. I do very much appreciate it.

I'll leave here for now as I don't want to rub people up the wrong way.

Thank you for you help and time:-)

Michelle

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Laois (Queens) / Re: How can someone still be so elusive
« on: Tuesday 31 July 18 20:34 BST (UK)  »
Please don't think I'm wasting peoples time. I'm really not.

I have followed all other information and leads I have been given and have come up against dead ends.

It really is a last ditch attempt.

I'm also not sure how to close the other threads.

Thanks

Michelle

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Laois (Queens) / Re: How can someone still be so elusive
« on: Tuesday 31 July 18 20:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I've come over twice to the records office in Dublin and searched them. One of the ladies who worked in there searched alongside me and we came up with nothing.

It's so frustrating as I have family members who know the answers but say..leave the past where it is.

I made a promise to my mum before she passed away that I would continue looking, so I will and hopefully one day I will find the answers.

My nan spoke of being in the launderies  with the nuns but I'm not sure if that was in England, where she came to as she was pregnant outside of marriage or as a child. I have the records for her whilst she was in a home run by the nuns in Birmingham in 1945 and only her dad is listed not her mum so that was a dead end there too.

Thanks

Michelle

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Laois (Queens) / Re: How can someone still be so elusive
« on: Tuesday 31 July 18 20:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

On William and Ellen's children's birth certificates they are listed as living in Fontstown, Kildare. They were all Baptised in St. Michael's church in Athy. I have copies of their Baptism certificates, kindly sent to me by the church.

Ellen and William were married at the Church of Rath in Mountmellick.

These records are all that seem to exist for her or that I can find :-(.

Thanks

Michelle

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Laois (Queens) / Re: How can someone still be so elusive
« on: Tuesday 31 July 18 19:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I have a copy of the census from when I last went to Dublin.

Apart from her marriage record and her name on her children's birth certificates, I'm not able to find anything else out about her :-(

Thanks

Michelle

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Laois (Queens) / How can someone still be so elusive
« on: Tuesday 31 July 18 19:13 BST (UK)  »
After taking a break for quite a few years I have picked up tracing my ancestry again.

I am still looking for my great grandmother Ellen Ross (Nee Burke), also known as Helena and Nellie.

She was born 23rd march 1906 and had a twin brother Thomas Burke. They were born in Mountmellick. Her father was William Burke and her mother was Ellen Burke, nee Roberts, nee Adaire.
She had a half sister Mary Roberts and half brothers William and John Roberts. I have the family on the 1911 census and know she married William Ross in August 1923 in Mountmellick and then moved to Kildare to have 3 children. This is where my information on her ends. I can find absolutely nothing on her after this date.
I have travelled over to Dublin twice to search records but with zero results.Ellen and William had( my nana) Lena , Kathleen and Christopher. When my nan was asked about her mum she just said she died when she was little and Kathleen said the same. Sadly, Christopher would have no contact with his sister's and his family still want no contact. Ellen's husband came to England (Stoke on Trent) in the 1950's, but came on his own and his death certificate doesn't state if he was single, widowed or divorced.

I have also not been able to find anything on her half siblings either. Surely, if she had died, then a record would exist somewhere or did she abandon her family ?

Any help or suggestions would be so very much appreciated as after 13 years, I am still none the wiser.
Many thanks
Michelle

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Laois (Queens) / Mountmellick Institution 1911 census report
« on: Friday 13 August 10 15:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I have found my gg uncle William Roberts aged 23 on the 1911 census.

It is a census report for an Institution in Mountmellick but doesn't have the name of it on the top.

Would anyone know what it was called.

Thank you for your help.

Michelle

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Resources & Offers / Barnsley burials website
« on: Tuesday 12 January 10 17:50 GMT (UK)  »
I have just found a website which lists burials for Barnsley.

www.cemeteries. org.uk

Tokens are required and are £3.50 for 50 searches.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Wombwell cemetery
« on: Tuesday 12 January 10 17:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I am wondering if there is a kind person who would be able to take some photo's of some graves for me.

I live in Essex and am not able to get to Wombwell for quite some time yet.

I have the grave reference numbers and also the rown numbers if anyone can help me.

Thanking you in advance.

Michelle

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