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Other Countries / Re: Chandranagar Cemetery Dehra Dun look up offered
« on: Sunday 24 April 16 05:26 BST (UK)  »
hi, I am interested if your book contains inscription for William Rollins, buried at Chandranagar in July 1946. He is listed on p127 of the burials book, which is no longer available at BACSA.

thanks
Brian

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Clare / Marriage name traditions
« on: Saturday 01 January 11 06:12 GMT (UK)  »
Did Irish women usually retain their own surnames after marriage or adopt those of the husbands?

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Clare / Looking for Farrell birth records 1850/60
« on: Saturday 01 January 11 06:10 GMT (UK)  »
Mary Morrissey and Patrick Farrell had between five and nine children together between 1850 and 1870. I have not yet found the marriage record.

The birth dates for two of the five born after 1864, Margaret and Patrick, are registered in Dublin or Galway according to the LDS FamilySearch Ireland Births and Baptisms Index 1620-1881 and are consistent with death records in Australia. The birth dates for another three, Elizabeth, Mary, and Thomas are not yet validated against other records. Records for Elizabeth and Mary are similar to the two validated records being in Dublin and Galway. Thomas is recorded as being born in Scarriff, Clare.

The older four according to death records in Australia, Bridget, James, Ann and Winifred were born before Irish registration began in 1864 and are said to have been born in Clare (possibly around Scarriff). Are there any online sources I can search to check these details?

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Clare / Re: O'Farrell
« on: Friday 31 December 10 04:19 GMT (UK)  »
ok, seems like a might have some info for you if Morse's Creek is in play. A couple of weeks ago I chased down a story on a Patrick O'Farrell / Mary Leydon / Leadon/ Laden/ Ladain) that had so much in common with the story passed down to me in terms of names and places. Unfortunately the son James of this Mary Leyden died ten years earlier than the son James of Mary Morrissey, something which I could not explain especially after the other Morrissey children lined up with my Dad's recollection of aunts and uncles and even funerals.

This Patrick was born in Wexford and presumably arrived in current Portland and worked his way through the central goldfields to Morses Creek, later renamed to Bright, where he met and married Mary Leyden. Patrick and Mary then moved with the gold to Woods Point and Jordan so not difficult to assume they later made their way to Beechworth and Yackandandah. Anyhow, they had two daughters called Mary Ann, the first in 1866 d one year later and another in 1872.

A guy kindly looked this up on his Diggers Database when I was trying to confirm "MORS" referred to Morses Creek. All of the details at http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/10072.1/mb.ashx.

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Clare / Re: O'Farrell
« on: Friday 31 December 10 03:06 GMT (UK)  »
Daniel would be of right age to possibly be a brother to Patrick O'Farrell however I have not sussed out that generation as yet. He had a daughter Bridget born in Ireland about 1851 according to her Australian marriage record.

Interestingly it is her three youngest siblings that were born in Ireland, each with the surname Farrell. I am confident this is correct as the father/mother combination matches, year of birth matches, Australian electoral roll names are consistent and it fits into the two year sequence between kids.

The story I am told is that the name changed to O'Farrell in Australia when two Jim Farrells began feuding. The name change explains why no matching records found for O'Farrell in Ireland but have done for his wife, Mary Morrissey.

And yes, I am probably in your time zone but also not unknown to stay up late on occasion;)

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Clare / Re: O'Farrell
« on: Friday 31 December 10 01:03 GMT (UK)  »
Don't forget your Mary may be recorded under Farrell. I found it can be a bit hit and miss with the O, either when transcribing records or another family with the O surname was in the area. This practice seems to have extended to arrival in Australia at least in my family's case.

This is not your Mary but FamilySearch Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958, records death in Scarriff 1916 of a Mary Farrell born 1843.

If you get around to chasing parish records, Scarriff or Scariff, is a town in the parish of Tomgraney, barony of Upper Tulla, co. Clare, Munster, Ireland. But to confuse things, I read somewhere that it was the main registration centre for the south-east quadrant of Clare. I found using Tomgraney helpful.

Also the LDS film note adds the Catholic parish of Scariff and Moynoe contains the civil parish of Moynoe and part of the civil parish of Tomgraney.

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Clare / Re: O'Farrell
« on: Thursday 30 December 10 15:45 GMT (UK)  »
I am also looking for O'Farrell from around that time in Scarriff (Patrick m Mary Morrissey). There were not many O'Farrells in Clare so it is possible they are connected even though I did not come across your ancestor. Happy to exchange information.

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