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Coach company discovers beautiful lost wedding album
« on: Monday 08 August 16 17:53 BST (UK) »
Another challenge for RootsChatters...................

A coach company is trying to reunite a wedding album with its rightful owners – 50 YEARS after they got married - 7 August 1965

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/693893/National-Express-return-old-wedding-album-rightful-owners

http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2016/07/27/coach-company-discovers-beautiful-lost-wedding-album/

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Re: Coach company discovers beautiful lost wedding album
« Reply #1 on: Monday 08 August 16 18:19 BST (UK) »
Marriage is not on freebmd, but ancestry has it in Manchester.

Possible Lewis MMN Cavanagh children up to 1983
F Mar 1966 Barton
M Mar 1968 Macclesfield [name makes this seem very likely to be this couple's son]
M Sep 1969 Barton
M Jun 1972 Manchester

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Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Coach company discovers beautiful lost wedding album
« Reply #2 on: Monday 08 August 16 18:20 BST (UK) »
It was at St. Clements, Chorlton Cum Hardy.

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Re: Coach company discovers beautiful lost wedding album
« Reply #3 on: Monday 08 August 16 18:27 BST (UK) »
There is a possible match in the electoral registers for Birmingham (findmypast)
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Clotworthy, McMahon, Saunderson, Culley (Ireland & Scotland)
Weatherall, Greer (Ireland & Scotland)
Hamilton, Johnston, Dawson, Rennie, Wright (Clackmannanshire)

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Re: Coach company discovers beautiful lost wedding album
« Reply #4 on: Monday 08 August 16 18:38 BST (UK) »
Good find Isobel - should one of us write to that address?
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Coach company discovers beautiful lost wedding album
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 10:29 BST (UK) »
I got in touch with National Express & they said the owners had come forward & made arrangements to collect the album.
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Coach company discovers beautiful lost wedding album
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 11:15 BST (UK) »
That is good news.
Isobel
Clotworthy, McMahon, Saunderson, Culley (Ireland & Scotland)
Weatherall, Greer (Ireland & Scotland)
Hamilton, Johnston, Dawson, Rennie, Wright (Clackmannanshire)
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