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Help to identify place name?
« on: Thursday 25 November 10 20:20 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone help identify where exactly 'Rainsgrange' is as stated in a late 19th century Wexford Town baptism parish register? - see below.

It is a note that was added to my Great Uncle's 1897 baptism entry. I did search the name on the internet & only one reference came up - a place in Co Waterford.

However the Civil Registration index has Patrick Dalton marrying Elizabeth Hurley in 1938 in the district of New Ross.  I guess they married here as that's possibly where the bride came from. (They moved to England shortly after and had 3 children born in the Bristol District  between 1939 - 1943)
Dalton: Wexford Town/Ireland
Curran: Ballyvaloo/Blackwater/Co Wexford/Ireland
Clowery/Farrell: Wexford Town/Ireland
Flood: Enniscorthy & Wexford/Ireland
Ormand/Kirwan: Blackwater/Co Wexford/Ireland
Shortman: Bristol/Westbury-on-Trym/Manchester
Trull: Uley/Dursley/Glos
Cross: Dursley/Glos
Hazard: Bristol/Manchester

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Re: Help to identify place name?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 25 November 10 20:29 GMT (UK) »
Ramsgrange townland in Co. Wexford is in St. James & Dunbrody civil parish (New Ross Poor Law Union).
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Re: Help to identify place name?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 25 November 10 21:37 GMT (UK) »
Thanks - nice one.

Using the townland of Ramsgrange I've now managed to trace the Hurley family in the 1911 census (my initial search under the surname had failed as they've been incorrectly indexed as "Harley")

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003595945/
Dalton: Wexford Town/Ireland
Curran: Ballyvaloo/Blackwater/Co Wexford/Ireland
Clowery/Farrell: Wexford Town/Ireland
Flood: Enniscorthy & Wexford/Ireland
Ormand/Kirwan: Blackwater/Co Wexford/Ireland
Shortman: Bristol/Westbury-on-Trym/Manchester
Trull: Uley/Dursley/Glos
Cross: Dursley/Glos
Hazard: Bristol/Manchester