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London and Middlesex / Tower Hamlets BMD indexes online
« on: Sunday 06 January 13 02:24 GMT (UK)  »
hi folks, a happy new year to you all and I hope you have a very successful wall crunching year ahead of you.
I know there is a item on the tower Hamlets BMD url in the archives. i came on it, but it isn't the type of message that can be answered.  There is no reply button, hence the new thread.

However, that message did reassure me that yes, i did indeed have the correct url for thbmd.co.uk, the only problem is, it's dead!   
http://www.thbmd.co.uk/search.php  doesn't work    :(
When you visit the url, this is the response:


 "This is the standard index of your website. You can easily delete it or replace it with another file. This is the index.html file in the web directory.
For questions or problems please contact the server administrator."    ehm! :-\

However, there is no link to whoever the server admin is, so i could take it no further.   Anyone got any suggestions?  If they've changed their url, I'd like the new one please; if they don't know it is broken, how do we contact them to let them know?

cheers for now

Fionnghal

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Wigtownshire / Re: MI's for Kirkmaiden, Stoneykirk and Kirkmadrine
« on: Friday 24 August 12 08:15 BST (UK)  »
hi Jodi, I'm interested in your McClinton name.  We've got Ayrshire/Wigtownshire McLinden, Mc A Linden, McAlyndon, McLinten, MacKlandin, Linden &c &c...every conceivable spelling under the sun, moon & stars.

I actually have two completely different McLinden families, both originating in Ireland but the above multi-spelt west coast ones originate, pre 1800, in Ireland, then settled, initially, in Ayrshire whereas my east coast ones, drifting towards the McLindon spelling, appear on the Scottish scene mid 1800's and originate from Rathfrithland in Ireland.

My earliest is westcoast one is Michael and had an unknown possible brother / nephew.  BMD's are proving difficult to trace for this and the next generation.  We've had to depend, where possible, on post 1855 death lines to track down many members.  It's been a long process so i always prick up my ears when i spot a McLinden type name in that part of the world  :)

Most of the Ayrshire family were in weaving but some boys went to sea or joined the army and saw the world sometimes falling off the planet in the process.. 

I have some Williams who fell off the planet and i've no idea what happened to them. Have you any idea of where and when your William was born?

Maybe when you have time, you could come back to me

cheers for now

Fionnghal

21
Ireland / Re: Family naming pattern?
« on: Wednesday 06 June 12 23:13 BST (UK)  »
it's not unknown in Scotland too, one name on the christening lines, another entirely on everything else.  Our family is as guilty as the next  :-)

thanks for your input

Fionnghal

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Ireland / Re: Family naming pattern?
« on: Monday 04 June 12 23:33 BST (UK)  »
thank you very much  :-)

Fionnghal

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Ireland / Re: Family naming pattern?
« on: Sunday 13 May 12 22:57 BST (UK)  »
thank you ourgang, it's seems to be all a variation on a theme and not so very different from Scotland's traditions judging by all the helpful tips i've received.  :)

Fionnghal

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Ireland / Re: Family naming pattern? completed
« on: Sunday 06 May 12 23:14 BST (UK)  »
thank you, you've all been so helpful.   :)

le durachd

fionnghal

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Ireland / Re: Family naming pattern?
« on: Sunday 06 May 12 12:28 BST (UK)  »
goodness, that was quick.  :)  thank you.

well, some of mine were from Ulster, however, they seem mainly to have been Catholic. 

I have a theory that when a family or person moves a good distance from their roots, family traditions tended to get lost, or the family of those they marry far from home may be the ones to influence naming.  I'm sure grandparents had a lot to do with keeping such traditions going and without that influence the patterns may have become diluted.  if kids leave home in their teens - to seek those gold-covered streets, they may actually be unaware or only vaguely aware of family or naming traditions. 

thank for your input :)

Fionnghal

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Ireland / Family naming pattern?
« on: Sunday 06 May 12 12:00 BST (UK)  »
hi folks, i've a question.  I'm wondering if in Ireland there was a traditional naming pattern which families may have followed, more or less.  i appreciate it may have varied from area to area or between faiths, &c.  In Scotland, we had one, though it gradually faded over the last couple of hundred years, remaining more common in country areas.
I have Irish folk who settled in Scotland, and i just wondered if they were any more or less likely to have named first borns after grandparents.

any suggestions?

le durachd

Fionnghal

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Ayrshire / Re: John McSevney
« on: Saturday 11 February 12 03:45 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Crocus, you've made a good job of it  :)  i tend to be very wary of on-line trees, especially ones that are in a major site.  so many of them just seem to be copies of one another and in some cases, very badly researched.  not so yours!  :)

I notice, here, http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/5901559/person/77081786, you've got
Elizabeth Dalton McSevney McLinden  listed twice, one b.1894 the other 1898.
The 1898 birth is the correct one.  here's a transcription of her birth lines
"Birth lines 1898 [hard copy], RG644/09 entry 675, Elizabeth Dalton McSevney McLinden, b.7am, 18 Apr 1898, 44 Cleveland st, Glasgow; father: Thos McLinden, Tailor & Clothier; Mother: Mgt McLinden, MS McSevney m.31 Aug 1880, Girvan. Informant: Thomas McLinden, father, present."

I've also now got 8 kids for John Martin & Margaret Shaw. I can send you that info if you want.  needing to head for my pit now.  let me know. 

Oidhche mhath / night night

Fionnghal

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