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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Which parish were they from?
« on: Sunday 24 March 24 17:12 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the links on Thomas!

There are many Susannah Harris’s in this part of Dorset and I have been struggling to find her parents/family.
Thanks for the info on this David.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Which parish were they from?
« on: Sunday 24 March 24 08:17 GMT (UK)  »
Yes he was a private in the 12th regiment of the dragoons. Of course - sojourner.
Parkstone looks right. Great ! Thanks.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Which parish were they from?
« on: Sunday 24 March 24 08:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi. Thomas Mahon married Susannah Harris but not sure where they were from. Not sure what it says before “parish”. Can anyone give me any ideas? Thomas was Irish. Susannah (I think) was born near Poole, Dorset.

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Ireland / Re: 16 year old Irish Imigrant to America
« on: Thursday 21 December 23 20:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks. I might see if there are any others in the same town in NY. Connolly changed to Conley and it’s not an unusual name. I have considered that he was older. I have a Great Aunt that sent to Canada as a house child so wondered if there was any reason a child would be sent to America. Hard to imagine a 16 + year old doing that journey alone in 1836!

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Ireland / 16 year old Irish Imigrant to America
« on: Thursday 21 December 23 20:06 GMT (UK)  »
I have the arriving passenger documents for someone I am trying to trace. Owen Connolly from Ireland age 16 was on a ship from Liverpool to New York 18th May 1836.

I can’t see any obvious relatives on the shipping manifest.  Would it be unusual to be 16 and cross the Atlantic on your own? I don’t know that he had relatives already there. I am not sure where in Ireland he is from. I know that he married Mary Kinlan and his family from there. 

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The Common Room / Re: Reasons why born in USA in 1795 but lived in London. No travel/birth records
« on: Saturday 23 September 23 01:33 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: crisane on Saturday 23 September 23 00:44 BST (UK)
Phoebe 40, is in the 1841 census with husband Thomas Weir 40. Charlotte McKee 10 Phoebe McKee 9. For both Thomas and Phoebe it says not born in County but there is nothing in the last column headed  'Whether born in Ireland, Scotland or Foreign Parts."
 There are others marked as being born in Ireland (I) so did Phoebe not tell them she was born in America or was it Thomas who gave the information and didn't know she was or is the 1851 census a lie.
HO107 piece 688 book 14 folio 32 page 2

There are so many accidental errors in the census. My grandfather is recorded as being born somewhere he wasn’t in the 1911 census - he moved when he was 1 so his father probably forgot.
I have wondered if the “America” is a red herring and she is from London
or somewhere in the UK.
She must have just married Thomas in the 1841 census as Scott died in 1840. Maybe they hadn’t discussed where she was born and he assumed.


I hadn’t found the 1841 census so thanks for that. If she was 40, then she wasn’t born in 1795 (possibly). However, I know ages aren’t often accurate either. Hard to remember how old I am sometimes :)

Phoebe doesn’t seem an overall common name and so I figured her mother of her grandmother could be a Phoebe but I haven’t had any luck with that either.

Really appreciate everyone’s input.

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The Common Room / Re: Reasons why born in USA in 1795 but lived in London. No travel/birth records
« on: Saturday 23 September 23 00:46 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Rena on Saturday 23 September 23 00:12 BST (UK)
I have a similar story of one child in a Scottish family born in the USA.  The reason the family returned to the UK for this particular family was due to the wife wanting to come back home.

I found that there were many adverts in English and Scottish newspapers for different types of workers to migrate to foreign lands. 

The two websites I used to use for ship passengers from IK to USA were "Castle Garden" and "Ellis Island" but I see that both have changed dramatically.

Thanks. I’ll take a look but normally Ancestry has good immigration records but maybe not in the 18th century.

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The Common Room / Re: Reasons why born in USA in 1795 but lived in London. No travel/birth records
« on: Saturday 23 September 23 00:42 BST (UK)  »
Thanks. I hadn’t considered that she might be referring to Canada. Silly I know.   I have searched for her name globally through Ancestry.com but will focus more on Canada. I have many DNA cousins and through this I have traced her husband, Scott but I haven’t found a link to Phoebe. The surname Green is a bit common to drill down so easily.

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The Common Room / Re: Reasons why born in USA in 1795 but lived in London. No travel/birth records
« on: Friday 22 September 23 21:50 BST (UK)  »
A die sinker makes medals. Maybe there is an army link between Phoebe’s father and Scott.

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