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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Irish Australia shipping 1840s handwriting help McNamara Flynn Kelly
« on: Thursday 06 February 20 08:43 GMT (UK) »
You are cruel!! 
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Irish Australia shipping 1840s handwriting help McNamara Flynn Kelly
« on: Thursday 06 February 20 08:19 GMT (UK) »
Hmmmm - I think you could be right! Will have to look through those registers! That could be very helpful. Sadly, work is crazy at the moment - but winter is coming! Thanks again. I didn't have that site.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Irish Australia shipping 1840s handwriting help McNamara Flynn Kelly
« on: Thursday 06 February 20 07:48 GMT (UK) »
Wow - that was fast. it does, confirms what I think - but the Glen word is the one that confuses me. And there are so many Glen . . . . Ireland is so hard. 
Thanks again!
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Irish Australia shipping 1840s handwriting help McNamara Flynn Kelly
« on: Thursday 06 February 20 07:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi - I don't think I ever said thank you for this! So thank you. 
Any thoughts on the Thomas McNamara one?
Any thoughts on the Thomas McNamara one?
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Higginbottom White Rooney Gosport Portsmouth Adoptions 1850-1920s
« on: Sunday 17 March 19 08:04 GMT (UK) »
Happy St Patrick's Day!! Thank everyone so much. I am attaching the narrative story I have written up for the relatives which now illustrates a past they did not know anything other than stories and rumors about. I am sending to them now too. Obviously with every huge win like you finding the right Joseph Higginbottom and Anne Rooney, it just opens more windows. . . . but I think a lot of people will be happy! https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/80705431/person/32430940932/gallery IS the Hyperlink to the Ancestry page with the narrative story. For some reason cant attach.
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Higginbottom White Rooney Gosport Portsmouth Adoptions 1850-1920s
« on: Sunday 17 March 19 07:57 GMT (UK) »
Hi - that was very helpful. Thanks! Started looking through all the workhouse and Canada stuff and just found his arrival: WJoseph in the 1894 Library and Archives Canada index to workhouse reports! But then sad face. 13, working for no wage, going to Church but not school, on second farm, happy now. Honestly it was just slave labor for so many of these children. I don't know what Canada was like, but some of the Australia stories have been horrific.
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Higginbottom White Rooney Gosport Portsmouth Adoptions 1850-1920s
« on: Tuesday 12 March 19 05:41 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that - and I think I found Joseph's death - Feb 1912 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He never appears to have lived with his children .... fretting about them . . .
I also lashed out and bought his military record! (Just one line on a page) Found in Archives at Kew. Company 14 (50 crossed out), "Date of Attestation" 31May1862. 19 3/4. Doesn't quite match (we have Nov 1840 vs this is Sep 1841). Brampton, Chesterfield, Derby. Collier, CofE. Former service: 2nd Derby militia. Reengaged 20Mar1873. Off rolls 18Aug1884 due to length of service.
I also lashed out and bought his military record! (Just one line on a page) Found in Archives at Kew. Company 14 (50 crossed out), "Date of Attestation" 31May1862. 19 3/4. Doesn't quite match (we have Nov 1840 vs this is Sep 1841). Brampton, Chesterfield, Derby. Collier, CofE. Former service: 2nd Derby militia. Reengaged 20Mar1873. Off rolls 18Aug1884 due to length of service.
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Higginbottom White Rooney Gosport Portsmouth Adoptions 1850-1920s
« on: Monday 11 March 19 05:06 GMT (UK) »
Hi - thanks again. I even got the husband excited as we filled in lots of blanks! Of course, now have slowed down again - such a fun and frustrating hobby. A sad story in many ways - Anney Rooney dies in 1886, leaving son Joseph to the Portsea Workhouse - then ??, Mary unknown and Stephen unknown. And father Joseph seems to disappear - last seen in the early 1880s where we presume he fathered his children.
Found a long line of coal miners on the Higginbottom side, and the name switches back and forth a lot with Higginbotham, so a lot more work to do!
Found a long line of coal miners on the Higginbottom side, and the name switches back and forth a lot with Higginbotham, so a lot more work to do!
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Higginbottom White Rooney Gosport Portsmouth Adoptions 1850-1920s
« on: Saturday 09 March 19 22:27 GMT (UK) »
OK I am awake and excited. This all makes so much sense, pulls together all the strands and is so far beyond my expectations - thanks so much. It was that other Joseph Higginbottom the marine that had me totally confused. I am going to enter all this in my Ancestry and MyHeritage trees and get all tidied up. Thanks so much! I am recently in correspondence with relatives - so nice - brother and three sisters all in a small town in NSW that meet each Friday for coffee - they are Cecelia's great grand children - in their 80s - will be so great to tell them . . .