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« on: Friday 24 April 20 16:35 BST (UK) »
Hi Andy No I haven't had a DNA test as yet all I have found so far on my Cherrys has been in Glasgow looking up poor law records censuses bmd certs and As I wrote in previous messages on the site it was on a poor law that said that that he was born in Ballyaglaff in Comer 10 miles outside of Belfast then on my gt grandad's 1st marriage cert to Mary Jane McWhinney at that time 1869 he was living in East St Newtownards I got the cert from Dublin as I said I have only found my gt granda James Cherry,b circa 1843 brother William circa 1831 brother John c1842 and sister Sarah c 1838 so 3 brothers and I know from my late relative there should be 4 more brothers the only other thing I found was William's marriage to Margaret Boyd in Gilnahirk parish Church in 1852 and in Glasgow again on a birth cert of Sarah and Arthur Thomson's daughter in Holytown Lanark it says parents married in Killalay That's all I have so far.on the Arthur Thomson's death cert he drowned at work it said his father was Dec William Thomson a shopkeeper and his mother Agnes Capeillton of County Down Regards Josie