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Antrim Resources & Offers / Re: Connolly Family of Ballymoney, Antrim
« on: Wednesday 24 January 24 09:39 GMT (UK) »
Thankyou! Didn't realise that you could do it with wildcards!
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Antrim Resources & Offers / Re: Connolly Family of Ballymoney, Antrim
« on: Wednesday 24 January 24 02:41 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the help! I definitely think the reference to the Cork records (in the FamilySearch tree) is incorrect as there were obviously John Connollys in the Ballymoney area in the right time frame.
Another question. When I access the Irish Genealogy site directly by clicking on the links provided by you, I can see the records. However, when I do my own search, unless I use the exact spelling (eg Connelly on the 1847 marriage), the records do not come up despite me NOT checking the "exact matches only" box. How can I do a more general search (eg on Connolly) and have it find the spelling variations? Or do I need to think of all possibilities and try each one?
Another question. When I access the Irish Genealogy site directly by clicking on the links provided by you, I can see the records. However, when I do my own search, unless I use the exact spelling (eg Connelly on the 1847 marriage), the records do not come up despite me NOT checking the "exact matches only" box. How can I do a more general search (eg on Connolly) and have it find the spelling variations? Or do I need to think of all possibilities and try each one?
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Antrim Resources & Offers / Connolly Family of Ballymoney, Antrim
« on: Tuesday 23 January 24 08:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi, I have traced the Connolly family (who immigrated to New Zealand in 1874) back to the marriage of Thomas John Connolly to Martha Martin in Ballymoney in 1847. The marriage entry says that Thomas John's father was John Connolly. I have also found a tree on FamilySearch that has Thomas' parents as being John Connolly and Martha Sullivan, but the evidence given to support this does not quite "jell" for me (there are 4 baptism records for children of a John and Martha (one of which is a Thomas Connolly) but they are Catholic records of a church in County Cork.) Can anybody provide any clarity? Did Thomas John Connolly indeed move from the south to Northern Ireland before his marriage in 1847? Or are there earlier Connolly records to be found in Ballymoney? Any help would be appreciated.
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Lancashire / Re: Woolleys of Liverpool or Broxton, Cheshire
« on: Thursday 02 June 22 03:08 BST (UK) »
Thanks for this information - definitely ties the family together, particularly the reference to Edna's wedding. I had not found that detail. The only person I have not been able to trace was John Christopher Woolley's cousin Eileen. I presume that she was the daughter of one of the other aunts he mentioned (Elsie or Mary) but, without knowing their married names, I have not managed to find out if one of them had a daughter Eileen.
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Lancashire / Re: Woolleys of Liverpool or Broxton, Cheshire
« on: Wednesday 01 June 22 01:37 BST (UK) »
Thanks, that is good to know. That ties up with what I have found out. In fact, everything I found ties in with the known details (names of aunts and cousins, age at death) but there was still one family member in Australia who was inclined to believe the Ancestry tree. I needed the certificate to prove my case.
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Lancashire / Re: Woolleys of Liverpool or Broxton, Cheshire
« on: Tuesday 31 May 22 10:47 BST (UK) »
You're right, of course. The records on Ancestry are correct, it's just the tree that is wrong. I have already put the correct information up into FamilySearch (and I will attach a copy of the certificate) so I can only hope that someone else looking for the family checks all possible sources.
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Lancashire / Re: Woolleys of Liverpool or Broxton, Cheshire
« on: Tuesday 31 May 22 09:28 BST (UK) »
An update: I finally have a copy of the Woolley-Trimarco marriage certificate from 1926. John Woolley was 23 when he married, which puts his birth year as 1903. So, the Woolley family we found is the correct one - and the information up on Ancestry.com is incorrect. Does anyone know how to go about getting it corrected? I have tried contacting the person who entered the information in the first place but have had no response, probably an old email address.
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Lancashire / Re: Woolleys of Liverpool or Broxton, Cheshire
« on: Thursday 14 April 22 12:44 BST (UK) »
I did wonder if she was a servant somewhere at age 15. Thanks for all your help.
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Lancashire / Re: Woolleys of Liverpool or Broxton, Cheshire
« on: Thursday 14 April 22 05:28 BST (UK) »
David, Thanks for all of your research so far, it's been very helpful. You posted information about Mary Woolley, nee Jones, which included a possible baptism and marriage of her parents. It all fits together to my mind. However, it's not conclusive. You also found James Jones in the 1861 and 1871 census with his previous wife and children from that marriage. Have you been able to find the family in the 1881 or 1891 census as I can't locate them? I was hoping to find a record that included a Mary - she would have been about 5 in 1881 - and maybe one of the older children so that I could be more sure that we have the right family.