hi thanks for all the answers, i do have patrick verling marrying catherine enright then ellen mahony, but i d not noticed that william was deceaced on the record, so that narrows it down for me
, i ve been searching for a death cert between the birth of his last child in 1847 and the marriage of his son patrick in 1873 but i cant find one
, neither can i find a death for his wife abigail, abby, abbsy etc either
i have been on the website coastguards of yesterday, i ve put up pictures and info on father and son both stephen pilcher on it, i ve even been contacted through the site by a man who s writing a book about irish coastguards asking if he could use the photographs of them for it
the information about the son s of james kent on ancestry is not from the lady margaret kent that i have a DNA link to ( 4 th cousin ) she literally only has a tree with 3 people in it on ancestry, this is the bit i m most confused about, the fact that ancestry is telling me my link with this margaret is through john verling and ellen verling, usually it only says common ancester and the name of them if the person is in both trees, i did nt even have ellen in my tree untill i put her in as a sister to my william, thats when i started getting hints for her marriage to james kent in 1831, her sons and the stuff with sinn fein etc, it seems too much of a coincidence for ellens connection to the kents and this lady also having the surname kent ??
so the information was on someone s entirely different tree, but i dont have a DNA connection to him or any of the other people linking themselves to his uploads, i have messaged him and i can see that he s read it but he s not reolied lol, typical, boo, i get very impatient
one other last thing is, the verlings from what i can see from castlelyons seem to be farmers, yet my verling from william who s birth i can not find are all cobh and all naval, mariners of some sort etc, does it seem plausable that my william came from that line to become a sea faring man which i know he was ??
also thanks for the RNLI stuff someone posted stephen pilcher the younger is on the list but not the elder, which is odd because the father stephen pilcher was chief coastguard at helvichead for 13 years, he died in 1898, i m not sure if he had retired by then, but theres no mention of him, yet i have quite a few newspaper cutting about him, he was also given a cerimonial swored for bravery
i ll leave it there for now, i have read peoples answers but as i m writing i cant see them so i may have left things out that i meant to inclued lol, thanks for now