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Wales / Re: Learning Welsh
« on: Monday 27 February 17 20:25 GMT (UK)  »
I've been trying to learn welsh since finding out that some of my ancestors spoke it when researching my family tree. I've been using cd and booklet called hands free Welsh.

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The Common Room / Re: Missing record
« on: Tuesday 27 December 16 11:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the reply,
The person I am looking for lived in Wolverhampton, which I think comes under Staffordshire, and died in about 1980.
I looked on freebmd and I found a birth and a marriage but I couldn't find their death record. I also looked on family search website but I couldn't find them on there either.

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The Common Room / Missing record
« on: Tuesday 27 December 16 10:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
I am looking for the death certificate for somebody who died around about 1980 but they don't seem to have been registered. I thought all births death and marriages had to be registered, so what could be the reason for that?

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The Common Room / Re: Tradition of Family Bible
« on: Thursday 13 October 16 18:52 BST (UK)  »
The family bible of my 3xgreat grandfather is still in my family. It was started in 1843 and records the dates and times of birth of all his children. It also contained the births of his second wife's children from her first marriage. It was bequeathed to his eldest daughter in his will of 1889. I saw it once and I took some photographs of it. It has a leather binding/cover which is partly worn away and it has embossed patterns on the spine along with the words Hoy Bible. When I was looking through it I found the funeral card for my 2xgreat grandmother who it had been left to from 1907.

When looking at some of the words inside the bible I noticed that some of them were spelt in a sort of strange archaic way. The word here is written as hear and Friday is written as Fryday.

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Cork / Re: Donovan, Field family Cork
« on: Wednesday 21 September 16 17:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
I have noticed that Eugene is written as Owen on some records and Mcswiney sometimes seems to be written as Swiney or Sweeney, it makes it very difficult to know if you've got he right person. I think both families lived in the city of Cork as their children were baptised in the Churches of St Mary and Ann and St Finbarres. Mary Donovan's parents Maurice and Hanorah Donovan were married in St Finbarres Church in 1865 and Eugene/Owen Field and Ellen Mcswiney were married in 1855. That's as far as I can go back with any degree of certainty.

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Cork / Donovan, Field family Cork
« on: Tuesday 20 September 16 19:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
the release of the civil records for Ireland has renewed my interest in this side of my family history, but I am still stuck behind a brick wall and can't get any further back. My great grandmother Mary Donovan was born in 1870 in Cork to Maurice Donovan and Hanorah Kelly. She moved to Wales where she Married my great grandfather Patrick Field in about 1901. Hanorah Kelly and Maurice Donovan got married  in 1865. My great grandfather Patrick Field was born in 1863 in Cork to Eugene Field and Ellen Mcswiney. I have found baptisms for his siblings John, William and Johannah and a possible marriage for Eugene and Ellen in 1855. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could further my research?

Thank you.

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Ireland / Name changes
« on: Friday 10 July 15 20:08 BST (UK)  »
Was it common for people in Ireland to change their names during the 19th century?

One of my ancestors was called Eugene on a birth certificate but on the parish record his name is written down as Owen. Also his wife's maiden name is Mcswiney on one parish record entry but just plain Swiney on a different parish record entry.

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Ireland / Re: Catholic Parish Records to go online in the Summer
« on: Wednesday 08 July 15 18:48 BST (UK)  »
I'm a bit disappointed so far. The only records I have found are the same as the ones they have on https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/. It's strange because I found a transcript of a marriage of one of my ancestors on the family search website and it had a lot more information on it. I was hoping to see a copy of that but no luck so far.

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Other Countries / occupation cultivator
« on: Friday 27 March 15 21:09 GMT (UK)  »
I have found one of my Jamaican ancestors and their occupation is described as being a cultivator. Does anyone know what this occupation would be?
Would it be the same as a farmer?

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