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Donegal / Re: Desperately Seeking James Ward
« on: Thursday 21 June 18 12:37 BST (UK) »
Probably not after re-reading his posts while comparing to my timelines. Maybe a cousin connection, but while the names are similar not enough detail to make a match. The Irish always reuse the same generational name patterns and this leads to so many hopeful but ultimately failed connections. My Gatins line usually names first born John, the McFadden use Charles and so on. Also gets fun when they all marry women with same first name. Had a PA marriage certificate I thought was for my grandfather, John Gatins marrying Mary Muldoon, till I studied it more carefully and the age of the John Gatins was off and they both had the wrong names for the parents. I appear to have two or three contemporaneous John Gatins in Johnstown PA all born within five years of each other, at least two of which married Marys.
Sorry this is such a long winded response when a simple "No" would have sufficed
Sorry this is such a long winded response when a simple "No" would have sufficed