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« on: Tuesday 28 September 04 16:47 BST (UK) »
Hi
I wonder if your Roche's are related to my family ?
They are from Tipperary - Nicholas Roche married Letitia Bourke and they had four children - Edward, Maria Theresa, Letitia & Henrietta.
In 1825 Henrietta Roche married James Ardill and their daughter Mary Ardill married another Ardill - John (possibly her cousin) - a farmer.
John & Mary Ardill had five children (that I know of) - Frances (1854/5), Prudence (1855/6), John Roche (c. 1858), Henry (1858) & Letitia (1863/4).
John died, we think in Ireland and Mary and the children, and Mary's father James sailed for England. I do not know if anyone else was with them.
Letitia was born in Ireland, and James died in Liverpool, in 1867, in Rachel Street. He had been working as a Cotton Porter. The family then moved to Bolton - as they were there in 1871.
John and Henry may have been twins. Henry never worked and is described on one census as 'Idiot from childhood' - John Roche died from a fit in 1881.
I have no other information on the Roche side of the family to connect up - but it may be worth you keeping a look out for one !