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Family History Beginners Board / Carnmoney Cemeteries Newtownabbey
« on: Wednesday 13 July 16 17:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi. I hope I'm posting this in the correct place. For several years now we have been trying to find a date and place of death for my husband's 2nd great grandfather James Saunderson. We know that his wife Eliza was a widow at the time of the 1901 census. Have searched in vain for a death record on GRONI. On a recent visit to Belfast we decided to try the Belfast Telegraph library as we knew Eliza's date of death was 16/03/1908. We managed to find a death insertion which stated that she was to be buried at 'Carnmoney Family Burying Ground'. I now realise that there are quite a few cemeteries this could be referring to. We've contacted Newtownabbey Borough Council but they could find nothing. If anyone has any suggestions or can offer any help that would be great.

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Tyrone / Wallis/Wallace County Tyrone
« on: Monday 25 March 13 13:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all. I'm brand new to the site so hope I am doing this correctly. I'm researching my husband's ancestors and am at my wits end ! I have mountains of 'bits' of information including some dates, census returns etc but can't tie it all together. Does that make sense?

Here's what I know for sure. My husband's great-grandfather was William Nixon and he was railway station master (Castlerock?). He married Mary Wallis/Wallace in 1872 at Molesworth 3rd Presbyterian Church. According to marriage record Mary's father was Thomas Wallis/Wallace. We know he also was a railway station master (possibly either/or Randalstown/Cookstown). This has just been confirmed by finding an inscribed pocket watch from 1850's.

We are completely stuck at this point as all three people we have mentioned were born pre-Civil Registration. We noticed that at the time of the 1901 census a Thomas Wallis (age 58) living in Cookstown was a station master but we don't think this was my husband's GG Grandfather as the timeline couldn't be right.

If anyone can shed any light on this I'd be very grateful.
Regards
Julia :)

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