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Messages - Sherry Campbell

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Antrim / Re: Nimmons Family from Randlestown
« on: Sunday 15 July 18 03:52 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: gaffy on Sunday 15 July 18 02:18 BST (UK)
Quote from: Sherry Campbell on Sunday 15 July 18 02:05 BST (UK)

The official NI Government 'GRONI' website (link below) has available online the civil record for a Belfast-registered marriage in the names of James Nimmons and Mary Graham, it took place on 3 June 1943, the full record should include their addresses, together with the names of the two fathers and fathers' occupations, it is pay to view:

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/

Oh geez.. I spent hours on that site a few months back looking for their marriage and couldn't find it.. lol. Thank you very much!
Sherry

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Antrim / Re: Nimmons Family from Randlestown
« on: Sunday 15 July 18 02:05 BST (UK)  »
I'm just seeing all of these James Nimmons listed in Randalstown area and wondered if anyone came across a James Nimmons and Mary Graham marriage or any details on who this particular James Nimmons parents may have been. I have no dates at all for James but Mary Graham was born about 1921 and died August 18, 2006 in (supposedly) Newtownabbey, Antrim, Northern Ireland. The only son I know of was born in Belfast n 1949 and died in 2005.

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Antrim / Re: What can I expect from PRONI records?
« on: Wednesday 02 May 18 14:23 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Elwyn Soutter on Wednesday 02 May 18 13:17 BST (UK)
Sherry,

In my experience, PRONI will do simple pieces of work for you. For example, if you want a copy of a will, and it’s in their possession, they’ll copy it (for a fee). Likewise if you want a copy of a baptism or marriage record that they hold, and you know the location and date (or approximate date) they will copy it, where copyright allows, or transcribe it when it doesn’t. What they won’t do is a trawling search. So if you are looking for all Murphy baptisms and marriages in a particular parish from say 1825 – 1900, that might be a huge amount of work. Hard to quantify and too time consuming.  You need a researcher for that.

Researchers in the PRONI area: http://sgni.net

Thank you so much.. I want to find as accurate info as I can.. been searching for so long. I had paid someone to get information for me here in Canada 20 years ago and when the records finally came online the person had transcribed them wrong.. children with wrong parents or mixed up dates... that's why I keep asking if you get the actual records. lol.

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Staffordshire / Re: Hancock/Smith - Hanley, Stoke upon Trent
« on: Wednesday 02 May 18 14:19 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much for your help on this family... I guess I'll have to give up my hopes of ever finding my Elizabeth Smith... only ancestor I have from England and she just has to have a name like that with no records found to follow.  :(

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Staffordshire / Re: Hancock/Smith - Hanley, Stoke upon Trent
« on: Friday 27 April 18 15:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: rosie99 on Friday 27 April 18 10:13 BST (UK)
Possible marriage for Elizabeth Smith (full age) at Hanley 9 February 1847 to Anthony Keeling.
Her father is named as James Smith occ Tobacconist.  That occupation would tie in with the 1861 family where John Keen is a Tobacco Manufacturer

A James Smith was a witness to the marriage

ADDED She is still in England in 1891 living with Catherine & Richard Ellis (Catherine Smith married Richard Ellis in 1864.)

Thank you for this info to follow up on.. I'm still hoping that my Elizabeth Smith is the one from the 1841 Census because ... one... Catherine (Smith) Ellis is not with the family in the 1841 Census so the Elizabeth from 1891 may be with her in that one.. and the 1891 Census shows that Elizabeth as being born in 1823 where all of the other people from the 1841 Census have been found to have correct ages and Elizabeth Smith is shown as born about 1826... I'm still hopeful but I won't cross anything out. Elizabeth Smith in England is like a needle in a haystack so that family could have had 20 of them all around the same ages.

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Staffordshire / Re: Hancock/Smith - Hanley, Stoke upon Trent
« on: Friday 27 April 18 08:34 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: BumbleB on Friday 27 April 18 08:13 BST (UK)
If it's of any interest, Thomas Hancock is said to be an Officer of Excise, a widower and from Burslem, when he marries Catherine in 1836 - information from the marriage licence allegation.

It is all of interest and useful... after 20 years of searching it would be really nice to finally find my Elizabeth Smith's family. All we know is she married William Campbell who was from Glasgow and they came to Canada sometime before their son was born in 1858. We've never been able to find a marriage record for them.

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Staffordshire / Re: Hancock/Smith - Hanley, Stoke upon Trent
« on: Friday 27 April 18 08:07 BST (UK)  »
Oh wow.. thanks. Did you find a baptism for Catherine, aged 12 in that census because she is listed as a niece in the next one... I just thought they were listed that way because the census taker put William Keen in as nephew and just marked the other two the same way.

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Staffordshire / Hancock/Smith - Hanley, Stoke upon Trent
« on: Friday 27 April 18 04:35 BST (UK)  »
My grandfather used to say that Captain Edward John Smith was his grandmother's brother but after years of trying to make a connection... I think I may have found that he was confused... Since Captain EJ Smith's mother was Catherine (Marsh) Hancock I'm thinking he assumed that that was the connection to his grandmother, Elizabeth Smith. Today while searching the 1841 Census I found a (K)atherine Hancock with an Elizabeth, Thomas, James, and Catherine Smith... all around the ages that my Elizabeth Smith would have been.

I'm not able to link the census page from ancestry because it's fee based but here is the link to the registry on the family search site.. the info on it is a bit off. Katherine Hancock could be either 45 or 65... the actual page could be either. Margaret Keen in the list says Margaret Karen on ancestry but looks more like Margaret Koen, and the 3 oldest Smith children are all listed as being 15 on the actual page which I doubt.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQT4-1LD

If anyone can shed light on who this Katherine Hancock was or who these Smith children belonged to... or anything at all... I would so appreciate it.

Edit: Was hard to find them in the 1851 Census on ancestry because someone transcribed them as Puth... here they are, minus Elizabeth Smith.. in 1851 Census at same place. It says James Smith is the son of Catherine Hancock and the other two Smith children are niece and nephew... and says Margaret Keen is the sister so looks like Catherine was a Keen. Hopefully someone has more information on this family...

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGLY-NDS




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Antrim / Re: What can I expect from PRONI records?
« on: Friday 27 April 18 00:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Johnf04 on Thursday 26 April 18 20:57 BST (UK)
There are sites like https://www.emeraldancestors.com/, that have transcriptions of Northern Ireland records.

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond... I appreciate it. PRONI holds the records that I'm looking for though and the only way you can see them is to book a visit.

Quote from: aghadowey on Thursday 26 April 18 22:46 BST (UK)
You can contact PRONI with your queries to see what currect policy is and ask if they have a list of researchers.

Thanks! I did look at PRONI for help but their services have a lot of "won't do this" and "can't guarantee that"... they also seem to want exact details of what you want with dates and names but if you aren't really sure then it sounds like a risk to go through them. I will try asking if they have a list of researches though.. that would help a lot.

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