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Does any Rootschatter have a tree for this family that you'd be prepared to share with me?
I don't need generations more recent than Joseph, who I think was High Sheriff of Westmeath in 1767 and married Frances Fetherston or Feterstonhaugh.

On second thoughts, it would be nice to know what daughters they had -- as well as earlier generations, of course.

It was a different NHS in 1953, too.  My father told the story of how the clock in the hall struck midnight, my brother was born, and the doctor looked at his watch and insisted it was still a minute to 12.  Or perhaps I've got the order wrong, but anyway there was an argument about which date to register the birth with.

I doubt you'd get a GP to attend a home birth in the middle of the night now.
And 18 months later he came to the house to give us all our jabs, as we were about to travel to Egypt to join Dad who was in the army and stationed there.  I remember running to hide at the other end of the garden (coward!).

I think this should have been posted under Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition.

Whatever coombs may say, I maintain that genealogy is about genes.
We can record adoptive parents (and adopted children) if we want,
but we should make it clear that that's what they are,
even if it was a secret at the time.  But how do we know?: that's the problem.

Transportation means the shipping of criminals to the colonies.
You are asking about transport: not the same thing!