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I'm looking for anything about my great grandmother's sister Mary McDonough. She's on the 1881 census as Mary MacDonald living in Talgarth and the 1891 census living in Brecon, both with the family but I can't find anything much other than that. On the census it says she was born in Brecon but I haven't found her birth record. They were an Irish Traveller family; mother Winifred Fury and father Phillip McDonough. Sometimes they would change their surname to Macdonald, also seen it spelled on records as McDonald, McDonach and so on. In my great uncle's memoirs it says that my great grandmother said she thinks she might have migrated to the USA. I've seen a couple of ship passenger records that might be her but not sure.

Hiya I'm looking for anything on my great aunty Minnie Taylor born in Briton Ferry in 1886. Her family had moved to Swansea by the 1901 census and she married an John Joseph Maher (born circa 1881) in August 1915 registered to the Neath area as they were both living in Briton Ferry. But can't find anything on them after this? I also can't find her on the 1911 census. Her husband might have been Irish, I haven't found a birth record for him. Wondering if they emigrated somewhere?

I'm looking for a birth or baptism record of Charlotte Bamford born circa 1767. She married Joseph Symonds 1785 in Westminster but I think she or her family were from Gloucestershire. Can't seem to find any record of them other that her marriage and name at her children's baptisms.

Hello, I'm looking for evidence of a marriage between Honour (or Honor) Prideaux (b. circa 1649 In Cornwall (supposedly) to Edmund Prideaux b. 1606 at Soldon Manor, Devon and Bridgett Moyle) And Esdras Giddy (b. circa 1640).

I can't find sources for either of their births/baptisms but over 100 family trees on ancestry.co.uk list her as daughter of Edmund and Bridgett and many list cite her marriage To Esdras Giddy with other trees on the website as their source.

There is however evidence of a marriage between an Honour Prideaux and James Berdow in London 1699 which some people have listed as her second marriage.

Does anyone have any info on the McDonough family who lived around the Brecon area in the second half of the 19th century (and probably into the 20th/possibly still there)?

My great great grandfather was named Phillip McDonough (b. circa 1849) and was either an Irish immigrant or his father (I think named William McDonough) was. I think they were travellers and the family seemed to live in a few different areas of Wales but mainly Breconshire.

The census makes things confusing because sometimes it says he was born in Lincolnshire and other times it says Ireland. I thought it could be different people but the children's names and ages are the same. Also the surname is often spelt completely wrong although people seem to have corrected it on the Ancestry census listings. Another strange thing is that it's sometimes listed as Macdonald which I thought might be a mistake but having read memoirs written by my great uncle apparently some of the family did change their name.

Grateful for any information!

Thanks.