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Help with handwriting on birth entry
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 23:08 GMT (UK) »
Could anyone help me decipher the first row, boxes 2, 5 and 6 please?
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Re: Help with handwriting on birth entry
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 10 March 24 23:30 GMT (UK) »
Box 2
1864 September
Sixteenth
11.40 am (not sure of this, but it's a time)
At Gilnockie Town (checking this again, it might say Tower)
Parish
Canonbie
Coffey, Cummins [Rathfalla, Tipperary], Cummins [Skirke, Laois], Curran, Dillon [Clare], Fogarty [Garran, Laois/Tipp], Hughes, Keshan (Keeshan), Loughman [Harristown and Killadooley, Laois], Mallon [Armagh], Malone, Markham [Caherkine, Clare], McKeon(e) [Sligo/Kilkenny/Waterford], McNamara, Meagher, Prescott [Kilkenny/Waterford/Wexford?], Rafferty, Ryan, Sullivan, Tobin
GEDMatch: T665306 tested with Family Tree DNA and also with ancestry
GEDCOM file: 1980344

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Re: Help with handwriting on birth entry
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 10 March 24 23:33 GMT (UK) »
Box 5
Ann Armstrong
her X mark
Aunt

Alex Goodfellow
??? Registrar
Witness (with the old fashioned s that looked like an f - don't know what it is called)
Coffey, Cummins [Rathfalla, Tipperary], Cummins [Skirke, Laois], Curran, Dillon [Clare], Fogarty [Garran, Laois/Tipp], Hughes, Keshan (Keeshan), Loughman [Harristown and Killadooley, Laois], Mallon [Armagh], Malone, Markham [Caherkine, Clare], McKeon(e) [Sligo/Kilkenny/Waterford], McNamara, Meagher, Prescott [Kilkenny/Waterford/Wexford?], Rafferty, Ryan, Sullivan, Tobin
GEDMatch: T665306 tested with Family Tree DNA and also with ancestry
GEDCOM file: 1980344

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Re: Help with handwriting on birth entry
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 10 March 24 23:35 GMT (UK) »
Box 6
1864
October 3
at Canonbie

Alex Goodfellow
Asst (?) Registrar - this might be what it is in Box 5 too.
Don't know the last line, sorry
Coffey, Cummins [Rathfalla, Tipperary], Cummins [Skirke, Laois], Curran, Dillon [Clare], Fogarty [Garran, Laois/Tipp], Hughes, Keshan (Keeshan), Loughman [Harristown and Killadooley, Laois], Mallon [Armagh], Malone, Markham [Caherkine, Clare], McKeon(e) [Sligo/Kilkenny/Waterford], McNamara, Meagher, Prescott [Kilkenny/Waterford/Wexford?], Rafferty, Ryan, Sullivan, Tobin
GEDMatch: T665306 tested with Family Tree DNA and also with ancestry
GEDCOM file: 1980344

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Re: Help with handwriting on birth entry
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 10 March 24 23:39 GMT (UK) »
1864
September
Sixteenth
1 h, 40 m. A.M.
Gilnockie Tower
Parish of
Canonbie

Ann Armstrong
her X mark
Alex Goodfellow
asst Registrar
Witness

1864
October 3d
At Canonbie
Alex Goodfellow
asst Registrar
[ ] W Regr.

asst = abbreviation of "assistant" with the first s a long s.
As the entry is made by an assistant registrar it is initialled at the end by the Registrar [  ] Whitelaw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilnockie_Tower

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Re: Help with handwriting on birth entry
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 10 March 24 23:52 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, so helpful. I thought it said Gilnockie but thought it was odd so probably not. Appreciate your help
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