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Offline se1paul

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John Davis, Builder
« on: Wednesday 23 April 14 22:23 BST (UK) »
I'm trying to find information about my grand aunt Christina Doyle nee Davis born in Derry on 5th December 1903. She married a Gardia Sergent called James Doyle and they lived in Ballybough Road in Dublin near Croke Park. She died in 1987 and is buried in the family plot in Mount Jerome cemetery.
i would like to be able to find living relatives. I'm also trying to find more information about her father, John Davis, a builder who worked at Harland and Wolff shipyard about 1901 and was also foreman on the great Barrow drainage scheme about 1882 and again as foreman 50 years later about 1932.

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Re: John Davis, Builder
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 18 January 17 18:06 GMT (UK) »
Rootschat isn't a forum for tracing living people but we can fill in some gaps for you.

Christina Doyle born 1903- family's address was 85 Foyle Road and father listed as carpenter-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1904/01839/1717728.pdf
Davis family in 1901 (father away from home)- looks like they moved about quite a bit going by the children's birthplaces:
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/South_Ward_No__2_Urban/Foyle_Road/1528495

Susan here in 1911 with sister Mary-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Londonderry_No__5_Urban/Simpson_s_Brae/607042
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!