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Re: Great Grandfather born in Jamaica
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 21 September 19 17:19 BST (UK) »
The army barracks were in Kingston. If in the army he may have been baptised in the army chapel.
I could not find my people on BMD because they were army births.


Jamaican site gives a baptism of of two Clunes babies both same parents but one is Clunie an other is Cliunes, living in Charles St .Kingston in 1886 till 1890. Father was a carpenter.

Just mentioning this as Clunis is sometimes mistranscibed as Clunes, Clunie etc.  Keep an open mind.

Also maybe he was with parents in 1901, abroad or in a school or institution  in uk and sometimes only the initials were given .
Have you looked on Scottish census records? Clunis is name found a lot in Scotland.
Could he have been with relatives or at school there?

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Re: Great Grandfather born in Jamaica
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 21 September 19 17:35 BST (UK) »
Hello Lola,
Can I ask what was the Jamaican site you found the baptism record on? I will have a look in the Scottish census, to see if I can find anything. I am lead to believe by relatives, that James came to the UK on his own and left his family, (parents and siblings) in Jamaica, but this info could be wrong.
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Re: Great Grandfather born in Jamaica
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 21 September 19 17:48 BST (UK) »
Jamaican family search.
Try FIBIS too.
Its a long time since i did any Jamaican fam history.
Put clunis into a googlesearch. See if anything comes up.

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Re: Great Grandfather born in Jamaica
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 21 September 19 17:52 BST (UK) »
Thank you Lola, I really appreciated the information, you and everyone else has provided, it has given me more areas to focus my search!
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Re: Great Grandfather born in Jamaica
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 21 September 19 19:13 BST (UK) »
He seems very elusive .
Not on free cen. For 1901.
3 trees on Ancestry but they have few records and only one is available to view and they dont know anything either.
Did he have brothers Cecil  who lived and died in Jamaica? and another who went to the US?
When did Margaret die? And did she remarry after James' death?

Thiink you may need to take out an ancestry  world sub for one month to try and  see if you can get more info  on when he came to UK . Also there may be a better tree on the US side.
Was Edgar Rees and family with whom James boarded in 1911 any relative, in law or?
Good luck!

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Re: Great Grandfather born in Jamaica
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 21 September 19 19:23 BST (UK) »
He is very elusive!!
Not sure of the names of Siblings. Margaret did remarry, she went to Birmingham, I dont think he was related to Edgar Rees, think they just boarded together, as they both worked in the colliery together, however I'm not sure, hopefully some new info will come to light in the future
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