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Family History Beginners Board / Sharing information on names & locations
« on: Sunday 23 April 06 08:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi from Australia!

I'm new to this board, but have already had some terrific help from others researching Irish ancestors in Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland, so I thought I would reciprocate by offering any assistance I can to others here.

I am no expert, but have managed to get back to the late 1700s on many of the ancestry lines for myself and my wife. The list below gives the names/locations of those I have been researching. If any of the information I have can help someone else I am happy to share it.

And of course, if anyone has information that might help me, I would be happy to receive it!  :)

Regards
Mike

Adams - in Surrey and Essex
Allsop - in Waltham Abbey, Essex and Croydon, Surrey
Chapman - in Auchindoir, Aberdeen and Queensland, Australia
Cook  - in London
Coppin - in Surrey
Coppock - in London
Dawson (or Desson) - in Scotland
Duhs - in Bad-Soden, Germany
Eldridge - in Surrey
Ewan - in Aberdeenshire
Fink - in Bad-Soden, Germany
Harding - in Ballincollig, Ireland, and Dartford, Kent
Halls - in Essex
Heineimann - in Tellingstedt, Germany and Mount Cotton, Queensland, Australia
Jessiman - in Scotland
Jones - in Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Lewin - in Essex
Long - in Ballincollig, Ireland
Mark - in Scotland
McDonald - Scotland and Queensland, Australia
Osborne - in Queensland, Australia
Read - in Sussex
Ross - in Glenbuchat and Auchindoir, Scotland
Schroeder - in Germany
Schwenkin - in Obereschbach, Germany
Sibke - in Holstein, Germany
Swannell - in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire & Huntingdonshire
Tanner - in Suffolk, Surrey, London and Essex
Tate    -  in Essex
Thornton or Thorton - in Essex
Vian - in Devon
Willard - in Sussex and Queensland, Australia
Zerner - in Germany and Queensland, Australia

           

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Cork / Looking for info on Army units based in Ballincollig in 1866 & Harding ancestors
« on: Friday 21 April 06 14:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone, this is my first post.

My grandfather, Arthur Harding, was born on 9th May 1866, in Ballincollig. I have a copy of his birth certificate which gives his father's name also as 'Arthur Harding' and his mother's maiden name as 'Margaret Long'. Despite a lot of internet searching and a great deal of assistance from a local Ballincollig resident, I've hit a brick wall here and can't find any reference to my great grandparents, Arthur and Margaret.

My grandfather's birth certificate gives my great-grandfather's occupation as 'Collar Maker, R.A.', which seems to indicate he was in the Army and attached to Ballincollig Barracks. This in turn makes me wonder if he was born elsewhere and just happened to be posted there when my grandfather was born.

I am now trying to figure out what Army regiment or unit he might have been in, so that I can check the military records in London, but there seems to be little information on the internet about the actual regiments or units attached to Ballincollig Barracks in the mid-1800's, other than the fact that they were mostly artillery units. Does anyone have information on the regiments that were resident in Ballincollig Barracks in 1866?

BTW, I'm looking forward to making a brief visit to Ballincollig in a few weeks time (on 29 - 31 May)!

Regards from Australia.
Mike

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