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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Help Needed To Find My Great Great Grandparents!!
« on: Thursday 26 November 15 18:33 GMT (UK) »
So...the marriage certificate FINALLY arrived and we have some answers, well...ish!
I've done some research off the back of it; at the time of the marriage in 1883 Andrew was a Private in the 72nd Regiment, which had just been merged in the 1st Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders. James Bannigan was killed it looks like in the Tel-el-Kebir conflict in 1882, but it seems from the records that Andrew also served in this battle in Egypt but evidently came home. When he married the widow Mary Ann Bannigan he was living in the Barracks in Parkhurst but they married in Newport I.O.W as Mary had done with James.
Her father was called David Leal, a labourer who was deceased at the time of her second marriage. From that I have found that I found Marys birth records-her mother was called Louisa Dunford. Andrew's father was also an Andrew, and was a coal miner and deceased in 1883. There are LOADS of Andrews with fathers called Andrew in Glasgow around 1862 (when Andrew the younger was born) so we're at another potential brick wall.
Any nuggets that anyone could discover would be fab; next stop will be the I.O.W records office but if anyone can dig anything up I'd be very interested to hear it.
Thanks again
ERS 1989
I've done some research off the back of it; at the time of the marriage in 1883 Andrew was a Private in the 72nd Regiment, which had just been merged in the 1st Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders. James Bannigan was killed it looks like in the Tel-el-Kebir conflict in 1882, but it seems from the records that Andrew also served in this battle in Egypt but evidently came home. When he married the widow Mary Ann Bannigan he was living in the Barracks in Parkhurst but they married in Newport I.O.W as Mary had done with James.
Her father was called David Leal, a labourer who was deceased at the time of her second marriage. From that I have found that I found Marys birth records-her mother was called Louisa Dunford. Andrew's father was also an Andrew, and was a coal miner and deceased in 1883. There are LOADS of Andrews with fathers called Andrew in Glasgow around 1862 (when Andrew the younger was born) so we're at another potential brick wall.
Any nuggets that anyone could discover would be fab; next stop will be the I.O.W records office but if anyone can dig anything up I'd be very interested to hear it.
Thanks again
ERS 1989