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Messages - Griff King-Spooner

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Down / Re: Patrick Lennon, farmer of County Down. But where...?
« on: Thursday 19 October 23 10:54 BST (UK)  »
not too much help I'm afraid but I remember reading in a local paper (Down Recorder??) that John Lennons ancestors originated from the Castlewellan area of County Down in a small farming hamlet called Aghlisnafin (hope that's spelt correctly)

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Joseph Ritner Colby
« on: Saturday 11 March 23 10:07 GMT (UK)  »
.....thank you so much!

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US Lookup Requests / Joseph Ritner Colby
« on: Friday 10 March 23 22:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I'm looking for the grave or burial place of Joseph Ritner Colby who was born 1st October 1839 and died on December 29, 1919 in Peek, Ellis County, Oklahoma....can anyone help?

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The Common Room / Re: Edgar Spooner King - just some questions
« on: Wednesday 29 June 22 16:54 BST (UK)  »
I was recently contacted by a distant and most helpful relative who has supplied details of the last years of Edgar Spooner(who now just used Edgar King as his name), apparently after the death of his 3rd wife he emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand on the 2nd January 1882 arriving on the ship "Wellington", he was followed there later by some of his children, Mary, Francis and Theresa. He started work by opening a small Sarsaparilla drinks store which was viewed back then as a health tonic before returning to his earlier trade of tailor/cutter, he died tragically in 1884 in his 72nd year after falling off the Otakia bridge over the river Taieri subsequently drowning, he was on his way to meet his family prior to catching a ship back to Auckland....

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Essex Lookup Requests / https://www.rootschat.com/forum/Themes/gRe: Baptism of Edgar Spooner, circa 1815
« on: Sunday 09 August 20 10:11 BST (UK)  »
I was recently contacted by a distant and most helpful relative who has supplied details of the last years of Edgar (who now just used Edgar King as his name), apparently after the death of his 3rd wife he emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand on the 2nd January 1882 arriving on the ship "Wellington", he was followed there later by some of his children, Mary, Francis and Theresa. He started work by opening a small Sarsaparilla drinks store which was viewed back then as a health tonic before returning to his earlier trade of tailor/cutter, he died tragically in 1884 in his 72nd year after falling off the Otakia bridge over the river Taieri subsequently drowning, he was on his way to meet his family prior to catching a ship back to Auckland....

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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: Baptism of Edgar Spooner, circa 1815
« on: Saturday 03 November 18 16:55 GMT (UK)  »
thanks for your help.......possibly Mary King could be a forebear as no one in the family can pinpoint the origin of the family surname King-Spooner (I've updated my family tree with a question mark) thanks again

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Wicklow / Re: Thomas Joseph King Spooner
« on: Saturday 03 November 18 16:31 GMT (UK)  »
thanks to all of you with the help so far......in answer to your question Hallmark yes Thomas was married (I think three times)

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Wicklow / Re: Thomas Joseph King Spooner
« on: Saturday 03 November 18 16:29 GMT (UK)  »
is there a link to the newspaper snippet regarding Elizabeth Escott's abandonment of the family?

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Wicklow / Re: Thomas Joseph King Spooner
« on: Saturday 03 November 18 13:49 GMT (UK)  »
thanks for such a prompt and helpful response,  my initial research was to find the origin of the surname King-Spooner.......Thomas who went by the surname Spooner as well as King Spooner shows  on ancestry.com records as birthplace Wicklow Ireland 1856. He was married and divorced a few times in his life so the mention of him being a bachelor is quite feasible, my quandary is that there is also mention of a Thomas King Spooner being born in Islington, London UK around 1857 who also has a father named Edgar Spooner born in 1813, I think this if it is a coincidence is quite remarkable but am inclined to think it is the same person.....at least now I've discovered a register of death and will try to unearth the correct birthplace      regards Griff

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