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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Thursday 18 August 22 16:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Lisa in California on Wednesday 17 August 22 17:57 BST (UK)
Apologies if this has already been mentioned but have you tried searching (in the U.S.) for Dominic’s possible siblings?  I thought an Irish ancestor settled in Canada on his own. RootsChatters and I eventually found out his parents and several siblings also settled in and around his town.
I have not yet searched for possible siblings of Dominic but probably will eventually..

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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Thursday 18 August 22 16:44 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: dublin1850 on Wednesday 17 August 22 15:07 BST (UK)
Yes, it was rootsireland. There are a number of Higgins/Drury couples in that parish, but I could not find other children of that (James/Winifred) couple, though of course that doesn't mean there were none.
Thanks. I feel a short subscription to RootsIreland coming on.

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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Wednesday 17 August 22 13:37 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: dublin1850 on Wednesday 17 August 22 08:29 BST (UK)
There is a James Higgins with a wife Winifred Drury having children in Tibohine-Fairymount in Roscommon around 1839. That might be worth keeping a note of.
Could you tell me where you got that information?

I have an accidental subscription to Find My Past currently and cannot find any baptisms for years around 1839 with parents James Higgins & Winifred Drury there. Then again, I cannot find my paternal grandfather's 1874 baptism in Co. Galway, details of which I already have, but Find My Past do have my maternal grandmother's 1875 baptism in Co. Mayo.

If your information is from RootsIreland, I could take out a one-day subscription with the option of upgrading to a one-month subscription.

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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Tuesday 16 August 22 16:52 BST (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for the helpful suggestions. It would be convenient if the hard to read name on the Report of Death is Winnie or similar. 

In correspondence with a Gedmatch DNA match from New Jersey we agreed that our relationship was through Higgins ancestors from Co. Roscommon.

Her great-great-grandfather Dominic Higgins who went to the USA and my great-grandfather James Higgins who came to England were both born in Co. Roscommon in the 1840s. Her great-great-grandfather's 1900 New Jersey Report of Death shows his father's name as James presumably Higgins. My great-grandfather's 1876 English marriage certificate shows his father's name as James Higgins deceased.

We think they were probably brothers which would make the match and I 3C1R.  This is consistent with the amount of shared DNA between the match and her close relatives who have been tested and me and my close relatives who have been tested.

My great-grandfather James Higgins named two of his sons Dominic and named a daughter Winifred. The match's great-great-grandfather Dominic Higgins also named a daughter Winifred. I did think that Dominic and Winifred were fairly uncommon forenames because there are no other Dominics or Winifreds in the families of my ancestors from Co. Galway or Co. Mayo but they are possibly not uncommon names in Co. Roscommon.


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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Tuesday 16 August 22 15:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Tuesday 16 August 22 09:11 BST (UK)
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Thanks.

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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Tuesday 16 August 22 15:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ajm314159 on Monday 15 August 22 22:56 BST (UK)

What is the practice on other instances of the same form, perhaps in the same clerk's hand?

If it is an Irish forename, how about Ulna?
Ulna is one more possibility.
I haven't seen any other instances of the same form.  The extract I sent with my original enquiry was from a document provided by a DNA match who can't decipher the deceased's mother's name either.

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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Monday 15 August 22 20:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ajm314159 on Monday 15 August 22 16:00 BST (UK)
I'd say it read Weese or Weece

Thank you. You have all convinced me that the name begins with W and I now have to consider the possibility that it is a surname, not a forename.

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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Monday 15 August 22 20:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: dublin1850 on Monday 15 August 22 15:10 BST (UK)
Is it not a surname? Weir?
It could be a surname, I suppose. I assumed it was a forename because the name of the deceased's father is shown on the report of Death as James [his forename].

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Ireland / Re: 1900 New Jersey Report of Death. Request for Help Deciphering Forename of Mother
« on: Monday 15 August 22 12:06 BST (UK)  »
Yes, it is easier to read. Thank you.
[I had already come to one tentative conclusion about what the barely legible forename is.]

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