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Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« on: Wednesday 19 April 23 18:07 BST (UK) »
Hello Everyone,

I am wondering if anyone can help with deciphering the Irish Place Name - shown as 'Place of Birth' on the 1911 Census.

I can't find this person on an earlier census and he dies in WW1. Fold 3 records don't reveal his place of birth unfortunately.

Many thanks for looking.

Edit - the place names below the Ireland one, are those of his wife and child. It's the Ireland one I cannot decipher.
Places of interest;
Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Southern Ireland, Scotland.

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Re: Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 April 23 18:14 BST (UK) »
There is an Aughmore in County Wexford.
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Re: Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 19 April 23 18:19 BST (UK) »
Gosh Alan -- thank you so much - I will give that a go! Well done with that suggestion.
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Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Southern Ireland, Scotland.

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Re: Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 April 23 18:53 BST (UK) »

There's also an Aughmore townland in Co Waterford.

https://www.townlands.ie/waterford/upperthird/rathgormuck/glen/aughmore/


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Re: Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 19 April 23 19:19 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much Kiltaglassan.

I do agree with both of you that it looks like Aughmore. Struggling to find a birth registration or a baptism at the right approximate time though.

I am so grateful to you both though for helping me with this.
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Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Southern Ireland, Scotland.

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Re: Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 19 April 23 21:37 BST (UK) »
There are other similar place names but that might be more confusing.
Do you feel like sharing the name with us, Pennines?
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Re: Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 20 April 23 00:51 BST (UK) »
Usually the English census didn't provide townland info for birth in Ireland, but rather only County, so my vote is for Armagh (grossly misspelled and the way the census taker heard it). Heck, he couldn't spell Ireland correctly with no use of capital letters at all.

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Re: Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 20 April 23 05:22 BST (UK) »
I though Armagh too. The surname might help.
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Re: Help with Irish Place Name on Census Please
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 20 April 23 08:43 BST (UK) »
Thank you folks - the clip I sent was from the 1911 census, where the householder has completed the form himself - the way he has spelt things on the form IS funny (in that it made me laugh!)

I am trying to help a gentleman in my Family History Society who completes little biographies of soldiers who were killed in WW1 from HIS home town of Darwen, Lancs. Hence he is looking for this soldier's place of birth and parents' names.

The soldier was Andrew Kenny - in 1911 he has given his age as 27 - so an approx. birth year of c.1884.

I haven't found him on the England 1901 census - nor the Irish one with certainty. He is in Blackburn in 1911, but by the time he was killed in WW1, his wife is in Darwen.

From Lancs BMD Andrew Kenny married Sarah McGee in a Registrar attended marriage in 1908 - in Blackburn.
I don't want anyone to go to any trouble - I was just trying to find his birth in Ireland - but couldn't make out the place name.

If necessary the marriage certificate can be obtained to discover Andrew's father's name.

Thank you so much for your interest though - I really appreciate it -- but I don't want you to drive yourselves nuts doing too much on this - at the end of the day it can be a very short biography!
Places of interest;
Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Southern Ireland, Scotland.