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Hi skilled photo restorers!  Hoping that you can help.

Relies have sent through a snapshot of a photo of Lieutenant Clarence "Clall" SHERLOCK who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWI.  He was killed in a plane crash on 19-AUG-2018.

He lies buried among the privileged few in a small private sunken graveyard near the Thames river within the grounds close by Cliveden House near Maidenhead, Berks. in England.  We have just received many other photos of the funeral, at which Lady ASTOR was present.
[The ASTOR owners very kindly allowed the Canadian forces to operate a field hospital there during both World Wars.]

More can be read about him at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26620679/clarence-edward-sherlock .  We are (urgently!) preparing an extended article for CWGC, National Trust (and others).

He was the sweetheart of a family member (Jean Scott PARKINSON, grand-daughter of Jean WHITTLEY of Ballycraigy, Carnmoney near Belfast).  She was serving at the same time as a young nurse at Cliveden.  She was left broken-hearted when he died.
[However, she was instrumental in helping to save her severely wounded brother, whom she stumbled across lying on trolley outside, having been diagnosed as a "hopeless" case.  Luckily she knew the chief surgeon, who hailed from her home town in Canada, persuading him to have a second look. Very fortuitous!]

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The attached PDF contains two photos, but we are only interested in the 2nd one of "Clall".
[The first is a postcard of Cliveden House.]

The problems needing addressed would seem to be:

1) Large stain centrally, near to face;

2) Background disturbance;
      [? stain from another photo, lying on "opposite" page within the album.]

3) Linear scratch across lower mid-to-right;

4) Missing corner (lower right);

5) Skewing (slight) of the whole photo.


Realise that this could be daunting creative challenge.

All help will be greatly appreciated (and acknowledged in the published articles, as desired).


Thanks in anticipation,

Capt Jock

Hi fellow trawlers of the seas,

Has anyone come across a parish named "Crough" ?

I can't find it in the PRONI lists.
[It might be an old name.
 e.g. like Carnmoney used to be called Coole.]


Ref:

Contrat de la Date of 09-SEP-1847,
Royal Court, St. Peter Port, Guernsey

" ... Sieur William CRAWFORD, fils de Jean,
 natif de la Paroisse de Crough,
 dans le Comte d'Antrim, en Irlande, ...
 et Sarah WILLIAMS sa femme, ..."


Genealogical structure:

John CRAWFORD
= <tbd>
|
|- William CRAWFORD
   = (<tbd>, before 1847) Sarah WILLIAMS

Ta,

Capt. Jock

Hi,

Anyone know anything about the genealogical context of the FAIRLEY family of Lisburn and/or Boardmills, Co. Down in the early 18thC?

I am especially interested in a William FAIRLEY.


He might be the William FAIRLIE, deceased,  whose effects were sold off by Henry BELL in Lisburn in late Dec 1750.
[Belfast Newsletter Index, Doc ID 53452.]

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/cgi-bin/belfst/Search.cgi


He might be the William FAIRLIE to whom the lease was renewed in 1752 for the Market Square site on which the 1st Lisburn Presbyterian Meeting House was situated .
[Presumably a member of that congregation.
 Seems feasible, the name sounds Scottish.]

http://www.lisburn.com/books/presbyterianism_lisburn/presbyterian1.htm#CHAPTER%205


He might be the William FAIRLEY, gent of Lisnatrunk (a townland just E of Lisburn) to whom, in 1737, Lady Middleton leased the watermill at Boardmills, with 12 acres of land, the grist of four townlands, of half of Killaney and of the lands in Drumra for £15 a year.

[Boardmills is a small village between Lisburn and Saintfield.]

Earlier, by Act of the Irish Parliament of James II in 1689, a "Hugh Fairley of Boardmil" had a judgement of treason recorded against him, also the forfeiture of land and goods, for favouring the cause of William III.

[He must have had some political or military status to get so noticed.
 He may be WF's father.]

http://www.lisburn.com/books/1-2-boardmills-killaney/killaney.htm

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My interest in William FAIRLEY is that he is stated as being the brother-in-law of James WHITTLE.

[In JW's Will, signed 18-APR-1735, proved 14-MAY-1735.
 Overseers: William TATE & John MARTIN
 Witnesses: J? MARTIN, Isabel SAYERS and Jonas SHAW
 Ref: Page 14594, Will proved in Irish Prerogative Court
 Box 9, Tenison Groves Collection, PRONI
 On LDS microfilm 258496, Families Thwaites-Wood]

James' wife was named Jane.
I am trying to establish her surname.

She may be WF's sister, so a FAIRLEY by birth.
[Alternatively  ...
   ... WF may have married a (YTBD) sister of JW;
   ... WF and JW may have married two sisters from another family.]

JW was to be buried in Lisburn Churchyard.
[Presumably (?) surrounding the Cathedral.]

JW's residence was "Lisburn Road, Co. Antrim".
No town given.
It may simply have been nearby to Lisburn town.
In 1720 a JW is in Old Warren and Knockmore townlands to the SW.
[Ref:  PRONI MIC/664/1 Hertford & Wallace estate records
 pps 25 & 43.]


JW instructed that his holding in Camlin parish be sold.
His wife sold "all parcels of lands"  (totalling 103A 3R 16P Scotch Cunningham Measure) in October 1736, to Patrick FERGUSON, a tanner from Belfast.  Amount not recorded.

[Ref: Deed, Memorial No. 61440.
Summarised on page 27of Transcript Book 88.]
Witnessed by William TATE and Hans CAMPBELL, gents of Lisburn, and Francis JOY, gent of Belfast.]

The land was situated at Ederaowen.  This area beside Lough Neagh lying between the Glenavy and Crumlin rivers and includes the townland of Ballyshannaghill (Ballyshannochy) where the later Glenavy WHITTLE family farmed at Thistleborough.

The Lisburn family's issue consisted of:

Dr. John WHITTLE (d. 1747)
    = (01-MAY-1735) Dorcas PRICE  (no issue)

James WHITTLE

Violet WHITTLE

I have found a Violet b. 1699 and a John b. 1700, both with father James WHITTLE in the baptismal records,.

[Ref: Page 14892, 1st Lisburn Presbyterian Church Records
 Baptisms 1692-1700, Marriages 1688-1696
 Box 9 (?), Tenison Groves Collection, PRONI
 On LDS microfilm 258497, Surname W & Antrim County]

However, son James (expected b. 1701-1705, say) is proving elusive.
[Ref: Index to baptismal records, 1692-1715, held by the church.
 Looks like I'll have to travel over to NI to study them in detail,
 at Church House or PRONI.]


I am 95% sure that the Lisburn WHITTLEs are the previous generation to the Glenavy ones, linked through son James.

The Glenavy family start with a James WHITTLE.
He married Mrs. Elizabeth DONALDSON in 1726 at Glenavy.
He married a Mrs. CAMPBELL later.
She already had a son, Hans CAMPBELL.

It looks like the first wife was the Elizabeth WHITTLE who died suddenly in 1728.  She was wife of James WHITTLE of Lisburn, soap boiler.  She was a CAMPBELL by birth.

[Ref: Page 14594, Connor Will,
 signed 08-MAY-1728, proved 16-MAY-1728
 Box 9, Tenison Groves Collection, PRONI
 On LDS microfilm 258496, Families Thwaites-Wood]


People from "Glenevie" are listed in the 1st Lisburn Pb records.
The Lisburn JW is mentioned in the Session Book, so obviously took his religion seriously.

The later Glenavy JW was co-warden (with GORMAN) at St. Aidan's CoI.  I understand (from Bob FOY, thanks!) that it was quite common for Pb folks to do this if their Meeting House was not nearby.

I suspect that William FAIRLEY will turn out to have been involved with politics.

[Glenavy James WHITTLE was (supposedly) the only Liberal member of Dublin City Council (so, an alderman) at one time.  The PRICE family were MPs for Downpatrick, Saintfield and Lisburn in the Dublin parliament, so may have "energised" JW in that pursuit.]


Any/all help greatly appreciated.

Ta,

John

Hi,

Could I ask for a kind soul to help to re-confirm the details of some Death records, as transcribed from the Greffe registers many years ago:

WHITTLE, Wm. Laine died Mar. 29, 1856
WHITTLE, Wm.  Alley & [?Sgt.] Major, d. Nov.24, 1859  H.D. 

WHITTLEY, William Digman   Feb. 27, 1860    MGTHE

[Think that the first two could have been soldiers at the fort.]


Does anyone know what the initials at the end of the records mean?


I am especially interested in the age-at-death of the last person.  It was transcribed as "42", but might be "4 1/2".

If it is the latter, then it is the WDW b. 1854 that we know.
However, he is known to have survived to return to Belfast in 1862, then went to the silver mines of Idaho with his father(also William) later in later life!

Could someone re-confirm his continued existence past 1861 from the census of that year (residence was in George Road or Victoria Road)?


If the age is "42" then the person is likely to be a completely unknown family member.  Very exciting!


Thanks,

John