M.SMYTH PEAS,CHIPS,FISH SHOP - Manchester Part One

[Barbara.H]

I am still trying to find out what his tattoo said.

I think you'll find it said:  "here enter who ye all hope abandon"? 

I've found Snowden St on an old A-Z (I used it to escape the men in white coats). Very close to Northumberland St, which housed a care home or hospital did somebody discover?
It's the 'Sno'n St' joining Rigby St and Bradshaw St.

  Barbara

[DS]

Hello everyone

I hope that you have all enjoyed your period of convalescence from this thread and that you are now sufficiently recovered to try and make some more progress

As Annie and Mo are already aware, I invested in a copy of the BVRI with the primary intention of looking at the Ireland entries to see if there was anything of interest.

I have now found something which looks very interesting (to me) and I have started a new topic on the Antrim board which shows the details....

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,281570.msg1649861.html#msg1649861

The people may not be ours but they look like very strong candidates to be the parents of the Briggs Street family and (at the very least) we now have a specific place in Ireland to concentrate on.

Fingers crossed

DS

[Barbara.H]

Wow DS what a gorgeous new avatar    How's a girl to concentrate with him in the corner?

But thank goodness we don't have to look up the 1,975 Smyths on the Dublin census

Happy new year! 
Barbara

[liverpool annie]

Barbara ! .... put your tongue back in !!  ( looks a bit like Pete Best doesn't he ?? )

He's only showing off !! .......... 

DS looks like you've had some good answers already on the Antrim board ! .... good for you !

I wonder if you might be lucky with this !! although it's a few generations back !

Saturday 2 December 2006
Belfast Parish Register Published
Next Thursday, in St Anne’s Cathedral, the Dean of Belfast, Dr Houston McKelvey, will launch the publication of the Register of the Parish of Shankill, Belfast, 1745-1761 which is the tenth volume in the now well established Representative Church Body Library parish register series.
The old parish of Shankill encompassed the town of Belfast in the middle of the eighteenth century and its register records many of the residents of Belfast, both Church of Ireland and non-conformist, before the town developed into the great industrial centre for which it is best known. Some of the names are well known in the history and development of Belfast but for others this register is the only evidence of their existence. The church in which the register was compiled no longer survives. It was replaced in the late eighteenth century by a new parish church, itself subsequently demolished, on the site of the present St Anne’s Cathedral where the original register is still preserved. The register is the oldest surviving Church of Ireland parish register for Belfast.
This register has been edited by Professor Raymond Gillespie from NUI Maynooth and Ms Alison O’Keefe, a former graduate assistant in the RCB Library, and will be available from the Good Bookshop in Donegal Street, Belfast at £10, or direct from the RCB Library, Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14, at €15

I'll be back later to see what kind of havoc I can cause !!

Annie 

[liverpool annie]

OK you guys !! .... I think the time has come for us to get back in harness and sort this family out once and for all !! 

We probably need a precis of where we are up to ... ( us baby boomers have no short term memory  !! ) DS did you find anything good in the BVRI ?? or should I say anything good for YOU ?!!!!

Looking forward to finding these Smyths 

[skb]

Gosh.

I skipped this thread after page 1 because I thought it was just about fish and chip shops. How wrong can you be? I'm hooked now because I used to live in Seaford Road (Sorry, I don't know a Mr Laws).

Just to add my two pennorth (of chips), regarding newspapers and death notices. Salfordians would put death announcements in the MEN (maybe because it's a daily whereas the Reporter is/was a weekly), but these would have be paid for, so if your burials are in a common grave (which I can't remember because I lost track) suggesting that funds were short, maybe they wouldn't have shelled out for an ad in the paper.

[sarah]

This post has become huge

I am locking this section and calling it part one !

Part Two follows...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,283924.0.html