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Monmouthshire / Re: Wilding family, Monmouth. - COMPLETED.
« on: Tuesday 15 October 13 10:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone,
I have just begun looking into the Wilding family for a friend who has asked me about a "Jack" Wilding who is understood to have been a Sergeant Major in the Welsh Guards. Does anyone have any information and or history about him, or indeed who he actually was.  Any input would be most gratefully received 'cos at the moment he appears to be a bit of an enigma.
I suspect he may be in some way related to George but again how i don't know.
Many thanks for any help
Veryan

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Cork / Re: STIRLING- Cobh (Queenstown) Cork
« on: Friday 11 January 13 21:17 GMT (UK)  »
Not you, telling porkies! - :-X
I find it darn difficult to keep Brenda's (my wife) and my family all together in my mind, and as for dates - forget it.
Now where was I?
'Oh' yes - you are thinking that your Gt.Aunt may now be right, if so, I have great (no pun intended) admiration for Catherine Sophia S, Snr.  Makes the research a bit of a challenge though.
However. as we are fairly sure as to the family Church I wonder if it is worth consideration to contact them to see if they can help with our efforts?
TTFN
Veryan

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Cork / Re: STIRLING- Cobh (Queenstown) Cork
« on: Thursday 10 January 13 22:44 GMT (UK)  »
Just had a thought Smash,
How many children are we up to now? 'cos I thought that 22 was pushing it but a couple of TV programs I have watched lately have approached this figure or equaled it.
G/night
Veryan

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Cork / Re: STIRLING- Cobh (Queenstown) Cork
« on: Thursday 10 January 13 22:38 GMT (UK)  »
 :)Hi Smash,
Well the idea was OK but has been kicked into touch by "the Moderator" - the dictat is to send me a PM (I very nearly started blushing  :-[ ) - Personal Message, which can be found from the Home Page. Look forward to receiving same and putting you in touch.
TTFN
Veryan

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Cork / Re: STIRLING- Cobh (Queenstown) Cork
« on: Wednesday 09 January 13 23:44 GMT (UK)  »
HI Smash,
Happy New Year to you and all who are helping to build the picture.
I do have have a complication to resolve in that I am in contact with a David whose wife is linked in with James Randall Doughty and he is seeking more info.on the line which I know is your forte - can you suggest a way whereby I can put the two of you in contact with each other?
He is on Ancestry but not Rootschat - mind I had the dickens of a job finding my way round this new layout.
Regards
Veryan :) 

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Cork / Re: STIRLING- Cobh (Queenstown) Cork
« on: Sunday 02 December 12 12:12 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Smash,
Curious - if John was 34 in 1868 then he was bn. abt 1834 some 10 yrs. after Catherine!!!! cradle snatching or he preferred older women.

Regarding the Merchant ship "Hants" - this was a Whitby Brig whose cargo was grain when it sank in 1865 at Ballycotton (just round the corner from Cobh) - I believe that she had set sail from Odessa.  I don't know if afterwards another ship carried the same name.

TTFN  Veryan

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Cork / Re: STIRLING- Cobh (Queenstown) Cork
« on: Tuesday 13 November 12 06:59 GMT (UK)  »
Very many congrats Smash :)

Let me throw another thought or two into the melting pot - have you noticed that several of the daughters married Master Mariners? (and not a sailor or soldier bearing in mind the importance of Queenstown).   I wonder therefore, if John Snr. himself was a MM possibly before becoming a Merchant? Also, there is a record of a John S bn 30th March 1798 in Lamlash, Bute, Scotland.

My other thought is that as John appeared to be a prominent figure in Q/town his passing would more than likely have been reported in the local papers and perhaps have given his age as well.

Perhaps Catherine Sophia can be traced on passenger or "crew" lists. not forgetting several of her son-in-laws were MMs

 ??? ???
veryan

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Cork / Re: STIRLING- Cobh (Queenstown) Cork
« on: Sunday 04 November 12 11:25 GMT (UK)  »
 :) Glad to learn that Uncle and Niece have at last resolved their "handles"!!!!! :)

Sorry to have been off line for a while, have been very busy on family matters.

Regarding the question of John S. and Catherine Sophia - if we follow logic (loosely that is) and we roughly know that Catherine was bn. abt. 1824 then the possibility is that she may have married John when she was abt. 18 which puts that date at abt. 1842.   Allow a year for H.hmmm "practice" which could mean that their 1st bn. was abt. 1843/4.    It is generally acknowledged that the 1st. child is named after the Paternal Grandfather if its a boy and Maternal G/mother if a girl.   The next is usually after the parents.     Hence, Mother is Catherine Sophia and dr. is the same but nicknamed Kate (she who married into the Clemence line).   So it follows that somewhere there is a John (may have died young!).     James may be named after John Snr's. father?   If there is a John jnr. then this may account for the disparity in John snr's death and the subsequent 1881 record?

Food for thought!
Veryan

 

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Cork / Re: STIRLING- Cobh (Queenstown) Cork
« on: Monday 21 May 12 23:08 BST (UK)  »
 :)
Thought I would make your day - another girl found-
ELLEN STIRLING birth details unknown except for being bn in Q/town.
However, she married at St Magdalene Church, Old Fish Street, London on the 7th Nov 1880 and gave her abode as 17 Westbourne Place, Q/town
Father- John Stirling Dec'd.       Spouse was HENRY WHITNEY Master Mariner birth details not n/k except abode is given as St.Georges, London - Father- Henry Whitney also a M.M.       Witnesses were CATHERINE STIRLING (who I suspect is Kate) and EDWARD WILLIAM LOANE (I'm not sure who the LOANE family are but they have appeared before in connection with the Stirling family ie S Hughes LOANE was a witness at the wedding of Kate S and Alfred Clemence).
I have been unable to further track Ellen and Henry apart from the possibility of them appearing in the 1900 USA Census to which I don't have full access- if any one else can look please advise us of their findings.
I'm heading for bed - Happy reading
Veryan

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