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« on: Wednesday 06 March 13 20:30 GMT (UK) »
Hi, need help - have been ,trying to locate this family member for years!. Can't find her birth or her father.
What I do know : Agnes married Henry McCourt
5 Feb 1866, St Begas cath chapel,St Bees, Whitehaven
Age on marriage 20
Father Bernard "Touner" sailor dec'd
This ties in with a handwritten tree given me by an elderly relative - except this says "Agnes Tourner, and says "convent - ship's captain as her father.
On the 1851 - 2 bank, lane, Whitehaven
I've found an Agnes Johnstone 30, born Glasgow , (sick nurse)
With Agnes Turner 5, b. Saw Mills, Whitehaven.
Which could fit in as I know there was/is a convent at StBees and I understand a sick nurse was a sort of foster parent, so my thinking is that with her father being a sailor and probably absent, she was left at the convent or with foster carer! However I can't prove anything.
Really would appreciate any thoughts...
Fingers crossed.