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Thank you Heywood, I am now looking at Godfrey Allen Ffrench (father Robert and mother Georgina) as it seems to fit and the sailing time is right, many young men fled at the time of the Uprisings. I'm going to email the other researchers and get their thoughts, many thanks once again.

Thank you so much for your replies. After years of researching the family of Edward Allen Penrose French I've recently discovered that althoiugh related it's not the correct family. Francis Alan Ffrench is definitely the son of  Robert and Georgina from REosscommon and I can only presume that he was staying somewhere else during the census. He left Ireland for the US approx 1930, settled and had family that I'm now in contact with.

I've been trying, without any luck to find out where the School Records of St Mary's Convent, Tweed Street, Berwick upon Tweed, 1910/1930 can be found. I've tried Northumberland Archives and National Archives among lots of others but no luck whatsoever. The  Convent is now a School, I've spoken the them but they have no idea where the records can be found. I don't know Berwick would anyone know if there was a nearby Catholic Church that would have associated with the Convent (Ursuline Nuns) . Most grateful for any help.

Many thanks Aghadowey, I've been trying to track down confirmation of my late father birth for the past 15 years but without success. His mothers family were Irish Travelling Showmen and at the time of his mothers pregnancy she should have been in education at a Catholic Convent in England with her other siblings but she obviously returned to Ireland and appears to have been supported by her parents before she went to the US in 1928. Her parents later separated and Dad seems to have been with his grandfather (Thomas Brennan) in Raphoe, he attended the Raphoe School where his grandfather is is listed as his guardian but no address shown, Dad was confirmed in Raphoe aged 10 yrs old but the records only show him living in Raphoe but no other details. Things have been made even difficult as I haven't been able to find any info regarding Dad's grandfather Thomas Brennan other than earlier ancestry via DNA. years ago I did have contact with a very old man in Raphoe who remembered my father at school and he remembered him living with the McElhinney's. Dad knew his birth father was name French/FFrench but I don't think he ever knew him, tracing via DNA I'm 99% sure I've found his father but he died in 1943 (New Zealand) without having any.. more children. Due to privacy I cannot put too much info re Dad's mother's Irish family as they are very well known and they cannot supply any info but were gobsmacked when I first contacted them about 10 years ago.

If anyone is interested in Shakespeare Street there is now a Facebook social history page dedicated to Shakespeare Street and street of it. A number of pics are on the site, my old house included....Here's the link.https://www.facebook.com/groups/2169449136623358/