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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Learmount Castle

« on: Monday 29 October 07 19:54 GMT (UK) »

aghadowey, thanks, I searched this and many are about the forest trail that exists around the old castle, but a few others have come up that give me something.

Kintree, Thanks, it looks like another trip to Belfast!

Thanks

Kev

Derry (Londonderry) / Crockett & Guy, Strand Road/Waterloo Place, Derry

« on: Sunday 28 October 07 19:10 GMT (UK) »

Hi,

I know this one is a bit out of the normal run of questions but here goes!

Does anyone know what happened to Crockett & Guy the Ironmongers at 1 Strand Buildings, Derry? My Grandfather was offered an apprenticeship there and I have the letter with the pay offer for the first 5 years. I have a photo sometime after 1928 with the store on it, next to the National Bank, opposite the Victoria Buildings.

I went there last week and the National Bank is the Bank of Ireland and the Victoria Market sign is still opposite but the building where Crockett and Guy stood has been redeveloped, does anyone know when?

Thanks

Kev

Derry (Londonderry) / Learmount Castle

« on: Sunday 28 October 07 18:58 GMT (UK) »

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can get any details on Learmount Castle in Co. Londonderry? I visited last week and it is a derelict shell but I believe my Great Grandfather worked there and that my grandfather was born in Learmount in 1906.

I have looked but cannot find any mention of it anywhere in any books or Online.

Any guidance would be gratefully received,

Thanks

Kev

Devon / Re: Mary Ann CHOWN marrying Henry GRIFFIN

« on: Thursday 21 December 06 19:35 GMT (UK) »

Shirley and Welsh Lady,

Thanks for the prompt replies,

Shirley, thanks, but I have all the census from 1841 for Mary Ann but I can't find anything before this and wondered if anyone else researching the name has anything.

Welsh Lady, Thanks, the person who is posting on World connect project I have already spoken to and she is as far back as I am.

I have found that there are over a hundred Chowns in one lineage on Ancestry.co.uk's One world tree but with no link between my Chown and any of those!

I'll keep on looking,

Thanks for the replies and have a Merry Christmas

Kev

Devon / Mary Ann CHOWN marrying Henry GRIFFIN

« on: Wednesday 20 December 06 19:06 GMT (UK) »

Hi,

Does anyone have any information on Mary Ann Chown (born Sidbury abt 1804 according to all the census) marrying Henry Griffin (born abt 1801, Sidbury/Farway)

The first child I know about was in 1826, William who married Sophia Chown (don't know if Sophia and Mary Ann were related)

Also do you have any info on Marys parents as I seem to have come to a dead end.

Thanks & Merry Christmas

Kev

Sussex Lookup Requests / Re: 1841 Sussex Lookup Name Bradford

« on: Monday 13 March 06 18:45 GMT (UK) »

Many Thanks Chris and Andrea, it gives me some more to work on.

Thanks again

Kev

Sussex Lookup Requests / 1841 Sussex Lookup Name Bradford

« on: Sunday 12 March 06 13:50 GMT (UK) »

Henry Bradford born approx 1811 in wartling Sussex, should be around Wartling or Hailsham in 1841.

Wife Sarah (firrell) b. 1815 approx in Wartling.

Children, Thomas b. 1831 in Wartling; Henry b. 1834, Wartling; Jane b. 1839 Hailsham.

Can anyone have a look to see if there were any other children please as 1834 - 1839 seems a fair distance with no children?

Many Thanks

England / Re: Firrell in England

« on: Friday 11 February 05 07:11 GMT (UK) »

Hi Sarah,

No it is for the whole of England. Because Firrell is an unusual surname and to try and getas much of my mothers side of the tree as posible I spent a fair bit of time at the family records office transcribing all the firrells from the BMD indices into a searchable spreadsheet.

To help work further on them & to help piece family members together I also went to the Principal Registry in Holborn where all the calanders of Wills are held and again transcribed out all the entries relating to the Firrells in england. They are only the entries in the calendars and are not the complete wills but have the reference numbers so that others can order a will if they require.

Kev

England / Firrell in England

« on: Monday 27 December 04 16:35 GMT (UK) »

If it is of any use to anyone as a result of researching my tree I have all the entries for FIRRELL from the Birth, Marriage and Death indices from the Family Records Centre and the Wills index post 1858 from the Pricipal Registry in Holborn and will pass on anything that will be of use to anyone researching the name.

Kev