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Tyrone / Hard to read place names
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 22:01 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone help me to decipher these place names, please?

I get Omagh, obviously, and I think the parish is Clogherny, and the bride's residence might be Seskinore, and the groom's Moylagh, but the name of the church defeats me. I've looked at townlands.ie and https://www.johngrenham.com/places/ but am none the wiser.

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Antrim / Hard to read place names
« on: Friday 08 December 23 19:21 GMT (UK)  »
I'd appreciate some help to decipher all the places in this document, please.

I think the bride's residence is Ballyedward but the name of the church, the parish and the groom's residence have defeated me.

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Cork / What is the name of this parish please?
« on: Saturday 02 December 23 12:04 GMT (UK)  »
The attached is from the marriage registers of St Andrew's Roman Catholic Church, Glasgow.

In which parish should I look for the baptism record of Mary Anne Wilkie please?

(Parallel request posted on Antrim forum for Charles McMullen's parish of baptism https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=878509.0)

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Antrim / What is the name of this parish please?
« on: Saturday 02 December 23 12:02 GMT (UK)  »
The attached is from the marriage registers of St Andrew's Roman Catholic Church, Glasgow.

In which parish should I look for the baptism record of Charles McMullen please?

(Parallel request posted on Cork forum for Mary Anne Wilkie's parish of baptism https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=878510.0)

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Ireland / Festus Fielden - needle in a haystack?
« on: Monday 27 November 23 08:59 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking into a friend's family history and his 3rd-great-grandfather was Festus Fielden or Fielding, born in Ireland.

He married Betty Whitworth in Oldham, Lancashire, England in 1833 and had six of a family: Mary Ann, Catherine, Jane, Festus, Sarah, James and Eliza Jane.
In the 1841 census he was 27; in 1851 he was 37 and in 1861 he was 47, so I conclude that he must have been born about 1813/1814. He died in 1869 in Lancashire and is buried in Oldham.
He presided over a tea held by the Rechabites in Oldham in 1854 and another occasion in 1859 at which 500 sat down to tea in the Temperance Hall in Oldham.
In 1867 Thomas Tetlow, John Garside and Festus Fielding, cotton spinners, Oldham, were declared bankrupt.
I have yet to find any obituary or anything else that might be a clue to his origins.

What are my chances of finding his origins in Ireland, and where should I start looking?

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Tyrone / Newtownwhere Meeting House?
« on: Friday 24 November 23 10:09 GMT (UK)  »
I'd appreciate any help, please, in finding out the full name of this place.

Mr Google doesn't know about it, and it's not listed in John Grenham's wonderful web site.

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Down / There's something odd about this
« on: Monday 20 November 23 19:25 GMT (UK)  »
I've have come across what appears to be births of two children to the same couple on the same day in two different places, registered in two different subdistricts of Lurgan. See screenshots.

John's birth was registered in Moira and Jane's in what looks like Waringstown. Both give the father's residence as Tullyheron and occupation as weaver.

Has anyone come across anything similar, and does anyone have any idea what was going on?

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Dublin / What is the name of this church?
« on: Thursday 16 November 23 16:03 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone tell me, please, what this says before 'Methodist Church'?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / What does anyone make of this signature?
« on: Monday 13 November 23 10:29 GMT (UK)  »
What does anyone make of the surname of this informant please? It's his own handwriting - different from the handwriting on the rest of the page so no clues to be had from including any more of the document.

I know what I think and hope it is but would welcome other opinions.

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