How to begin researching in Ireland?

[ladyk]

Margaret Crosbie?

Thanks! I'll try Crosbie instead of Christie

[hallmark]

Hugh Rowan
Hawker

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[hallmark]

Hugh Rowan
Hawker

Thank-you! What's a hawker, like a street vendor?

Yes... a Del Boy!!  :-))

[gaffy]

Well that would seem to rule out Hugh William Rowan and Elizabeth McCormick...

What is the word after hawker?

[ladyk]

I think that says "AND", referring to his wife on the next line.

[ShaunJ]

The 1871 census lists  a Hugh W Rowan, 48, married, traveller, from Ireland, in a boarding house in Stranraer

The 1861 lists Hugh William Rowan, 37, married, dealer In pictures and picture frames, from Ireland, in lodgings in Old Cumnock

The 1851 lists Hugh William Rowan, 29, married,    book canvasser from Ireland, as a visitor in Kirkcolm