John Leonard of Gortroe, Annaghdown, Co. Galway

[Mr. Tibbs]

Yes, thank you.  I had already checked the rootschat links that you had given me and have found the deaths of Patrick and Walter STAUNTON 1939 and 1949 respectively.  Patrick's daughter Mary Ellen was present at his death and at Walter's as Walter's niece (He did remain  a bachelor.).  There is also a birth for an Edmund STAUNTON in 1865 but I believe that he died when he is just three years old.  Present at his birth was Michael LEONARD who signs his mark to the certificate and describes himself as an "inmate".  What does "inmate" mean in this context?

I can find nothing conclusive on this same link for John or Mary LEONARD.  I suspect either that they only had one child (Edward) or all of their children were born before 1864.  I need to go back further now so will go back to the original parish registers before 1864.

Re Hannah BURKE-the surname is so common in Galway and in Co. Durham that I will leave that until later.

[hallmark]

What I do in your situation is start a PRIVATE tree on Ancestry with sources and see what hints get thrown out for them.

You have Walter who is a cousin!  So start with him and then parents, their marriage, chilren, deaths....look for their siblings and who they married!

Then it by bit work backward in time, adding anyone as you go, across the lines and backwards.

You're only going back a very short time...



It depends on where Inmate is written and context!

Organizing them on a PRIVATE tree is the way I'd go!

[hallmark]

  Yes...typed in a hurry hence spelling errors!!

[Mr. Tibbs]

Thanks, Hallmark.  That's working quite nicely.  I've got quite a lot on the STAUNTONs to substantiate and a link with the USA, which may explain American newspapers that my Grandmother used to receive when I was young.

[hallmark]

It should!

I put many down as siblings if I wasn't sure..... via Hints I proved 90%+ were, via shipping records and gravestones etc etc.

Having it PRIVATE meant no one could copy it, so no harm done!

Even proving one person as incorrect helped.