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Can anyone help please?  I have an iphone 4 and when I try to access Rootchat via Safari I get Google results as usual but when I then click on to Rootschat I get the message "safari cannot open the page because too many redirects occurred"  I have never had this problem with any other site.  Can anyone advise?

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Hello Rootschatters,

I have a Scottish marriage record, Edinburgh, 1819, which has the letters OGTP or OGFP after the groom's name.  Does anyone know what these letters mean?

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Can anyone help to solve this mystery?

I am trying to find the birth of my great grandmother and her siblings, with  no luck at all.

My great grandmother was Sarah Sarchfield.  She married John Conway in 1881 in North Meols (now Southport) Lancashire.  North Meols came under Ormskirk for registration purposes at the time.

Sarah was the daughter of John Sarchfield.  John was living with (not sure if married to) Mary McLoughlin in 1871 and 1881 in North Meols.  Both appear to have been born in Ireland.  Mary’s surname comes from the St. Marie’s parish records listing the births of some of her children.

For some reason the family was also known as Mitchell.  In the 1871 and 1881 censuses they were listed as Mitchell.  The children all married as Sarchfield.  Mary’s death is listed in St. Marie’s parish records as “Mary Sarchfield alias Mitchell.”  John committed suicide in the 1880’s and the newspaper report gives his name as Sarchfield.

Sarah had a sister Mary, brothers John and Thomas, all born in Manchester according to the censuses.  The family then had more children, including Annie Sarchfield  (registered as Saurchfield) born 1867 in North Meols and James born 1870 in North Meols.

There seems to be 2 sets of children within the family - one born in Manchester and one later in North Meols.

I can’t find any births of the children allegedly born in Manchester.  Sarah was born between 1854 and 1858.  Mary  was a year or so older.  Thomas was born in the late 1850’s and John in the early 1860’s.

I don’t know if both John and Mary were the parents, or John and an earlier wife.  There is even a possibility that the children were born to different parents, whose father died and the mother married John Sarchfield, and later died, leaving him to marry ( or live with ) Mary.

I found a marriage of an Emily Victoria Sarsfield to John Mitchell in Manchester in 1864 but she was single and I can’t find Emily in 1861 or later censuses.

There was a John Sarsfield in the army in Scotland in 1841 and in Aston, Birmingham in 1851 but again I have no proof it was the same person.  It is interesting his commanding officer was named Mitchell!  I have found Reuben Mitchell in 1861 but not John Sarsfield.

So to summarise, I am trying to find the family in the 1861 census and the births of the children in Manchester, between 1853 and 1865.

Any help at all would be appreciated. 


Sandgrounder

I renewed my AVG subscription a couple of days ago and from then on I have had difficulty in exiting screens in internet explorer.

For instance if I logged into Rootschat then clicked the red X at the top to exit I get a blank screen with the Rootschat address in the top box.  The blank screen sits there until I click again.  I then get a "programme not responding" message where I then have to click "end now".  This happens every time I try to exit any site.

Can anyone help please?

Sandgrounder