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Offline GeoffTurner

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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 17 September 20 07:23 BST (UK) »
Were there a lot of mansions on Primrose Hill? I know there is one that is still a tourist attraction to this day. There is a reference on a tree somewhere to Bridget being a Lady in Waiting to Lady St Clair, England. I thought that was more likely to be an English woman living in Ireland than a woman in England. But if that was the case you'd think she would give a better occupation that "servant".

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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 17 September 20 07:28 BST (UK) »
Have you tried using GeoHive
https://bit.ly/2FBO32q
Fingers crossed

Primrose Hill appears to be one house on Tivoli Road

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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 17 September 20 07:41 BST (UK) »
Do you think it would be this place?
https://www.visitdublin.com/see-do/details/primrose-hill
It seems to be in Primrose Lane now, not Tivoli Road, but Bridget seems to have written Tivoli Road on her address.

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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 17 September 20 07:58 BST (UK) »
No it seems to be in Lucan, which is nowhere near the other place at Tivoli Rd, Kingstown. Must have been two Primrose Hills in Dublin.


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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 17 September 20 08:20 BST (UK) »
In the newspapers a Mr Adam Findlater is given his address as Primrose Hill, 1890s early 1900s
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Kingstown/Tivoli_Road/1319542/

I'll try to look at earlier dates
No luck with the newspaper and Adam's daughter Wanda wasn't born at that address so seems that family weren't there in 1881.

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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 17 September 20 08:31 BST (UK) »
That's interesting. But yes, the earlier the better. Bridget married in 1881 and may have ceased work immediately, I guess. She had a daughter Annie at 23 Bolton St, North Dublin, on 3 May 1883. I'm not sure when they emigrated but Annie married in New York on 20 Jan 1900. I don't have a baptism for Annie, I don't know which church they would have been going to by then. North Dublin seems a fair way from Kingstown. 

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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 17 September 20 08:49 BST (UK) »
Can't find a Primrose Hill address for St.Clair family in the newspapers but they are coming back and forth to Kingstown from London etc.

Have another look later

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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 17 September 20 08:53 BST (UK) »
Thanks, that's amazing. Seems that the St Clair story might be true after all!

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Re: Help deciphering parish marriage register
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 17 September 20 09:01 BST (UK) »
If Ann married a Sloan, they emigrated when she was age 6 according to the death register. Parents and age match, but might not be who you are looking for.