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The Common Room / Irish marriages, 1840s
« on: Friday 28 July 17 14:44 BST (UK)  »
After seeing an image and transcript of a tombstone in St.Mary's Dungarvan, and checking death records, I have finally identified with certainty my Irish g-g-grandparents, Hester and James Mulhall.  The transcription misreads some year figures, and as her February 1891 death was not registered until December (!) I suspect her age was recorded there as 90 instead of 80 as per tombstone. That being so, it seems James was born in 1821 and Hester in 1810.  It is unlikely that she was born earlier, as her daughter (my gt-grandmother) was a minor when she married in early 1870, and 60 in the 1911 census, so she was likely born in 1850.

I would like to discover when those two married - presumably in the 1840s - and whether there were siblings, but unsurprisingly I have had no success so far.  I suspect Hester's maiden name may have been Curtis, as that was handed on to a grandson. Can anyone suggest a likely source, or (better still) offer any more information?

Mods - if you think this is better in the Ireland or Co.Waterford page, please relocate.

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The Common Room / False conclusions
« on: Thursday 29 June 17 13:02 BST (UK)  »
Transcribing burials today for the Oldham district, I came across an unfamiliar surname for a child named Violet, so I checked FreeBMD for confirmation.  There was a corresponding birth a year before, but the only matching death was registered a year later.  Hmmm - very late registration, I thought.

Just to make sure, I checked ahead on my transcript.  There was indeed another child buried a year after the first, with the same name.  The death of the first hadn't been registered - or perhaps had been transcribed differently, I suppose.

Both Violets had died at about 12 months.  I haven't looked to see whether the parents tried a third time  :-[

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The Common Room / Unusual forename ?
« on: Thursday 09 February 17 17:53 GMT (UK)  »
While transcribing births and burials for the Manchester area I have come across several children recorded as Emin (as in Tracey, but not a surname).  Is this a variant, and what of ?

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The Common Room / this week's puzzle
« on: Wednesday 01 February 17 23:04 GMT (UK)  »
I can usually decipher this cleric's strange writing, but this time he has come up with a surname that makes no sense at all to me.  Any suggestions?  (remember that his lower case 'e's are always reversed):

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The Lighter Side / How to be remembered?
« on: Sunday 29 January 17 17:45 GMT (UK)  »
This gentleman buried in Ardwick in 1787 seems to have attracted a certain notoriety ...

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The Common Room / Suggestion please ...
« on: Sunday 22 January 17 11:09 GMT (UK)  »
What might this insertion mean (in the record of Ardwick baptisms  for 1792) ?

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The Common Room / a 'silent' burial
« on: Tuesday 17 January 17 12:53 GMT (UK)  »
How would you interpret the comment attached to Lydia's entry below?  Will it mean a deaf-mute?

Note her mother died a couple of weeks later ....

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The Common Room / Buried twice?
« on: Thursday 12 January 17 16:02 GMT (UK)  »
What can have happened here?  A young child apparently buried in January, then reinterred 18 months later?  Did she come back to life?  (note the entry is in sequence with the earlier date).  Maybe, like Kosher Bailey, someone heard some knockin' ....

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The Common Room / January's transcription puzzle
« on: Tuesday 10 January 17 13:58 GMT (UK)  »
Who can confirm my suspicions for the name given at this 1765 baptism, between Thomas and Mary ?

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