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Offline Davemed

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Robert Conkie
« on: Wednesday 31 August 11 19:13 BST (UK) »
Robert Conkie was born in Dingle, Burnham, County Kerry on the 27th October 1912.
His mothers name was Joan Thorburn - Conkie his father George Conkie.
George Conkie was a jockey / groom.
I cannot find any record of Robert Conkie in County Kerry.
Can anybody help ?
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Offline shanew147

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Re: Robert Conkie
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 31 August 11 22:08 BST (UK) »
Quote from: davemed on Wednesday 31 August 11 19:13 BST (UK)
....Robert Conkie was born in Dingle, Burnham, County Kerry on the 27th October 1912.
....
I cannot find any record of Robert Conkie in County Kerry.
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not sure what details you tried searching already... but this looks like a good match for his birth on the BMD Index :

  Name: Robert Conkie
  Registration district:   Dingle
  Event type: Birth
  Quarter and year: Oct-Dec 1912
  Volume number: 5 / Page : 168

you can use these details to order a research cert to see the full details.

see :

   Introduction to Irish Records
   My Ancestor came from Ireland - where do I start?

   Ordering Certs from GRO Roscommon

   Details included on a Birth Cert


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Re: Robert Conkie
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 03 September 11 18:26 BST (UK) »
Burnham was the estate of Lord Ventry. In the 1911 Census there is no entry for a Conkie showing in the townland of Burnham East or West or in any part of Kerry that I can find.So it seems Robert's father may have moved there shortly before his birth -perhaps to work on the estate. The estate was sold to the Land Commission inn 1920 and the house became a teacher training college.
 Hope this is of some help.
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Re: Robert Conkie
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 May 12 14:56 BST (UK) »
George Conkie was single on the 1911 census and living in Cheshire. It states that he was from Ayrshire.

There is someone doing this tree on ancestry and says that Joan's surname was Borthwick and that she married George in 1912 in Cheshire.

They say that Robert passed in 1940 in France.

So as 'annclare' has said it looks like the family's time in Kerry was shortlived.

Tara
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