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Originally posted by maire View PostThat's very true joe, I would say they both knew a lot of poverty too, my granda was born in 79 bride street , I believe your family were from there too? Small world eh?
they would only have lived yards from rashers granny.....Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!
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Originally posted by quinner View Postyes, 79 bride street were the houses that were falling down in the rashers granny story......
they would only have lived yards from rashers granny.....
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Originally posted by quinner View Postmaire, your grandad was in india at the same time as my grand and great grandad.....maybe they even met...
mine were in the munster fusiliers........both in the regimental bands...Do what you love - love what you do.
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Maire, the "born in England" thing might be a red herring, though I'm sure you'll
have searched the Irish records as well. Did your grandmother (or great-grandmother, I forget which) come from a military family herself? In which case
she could have been born somewhere else entirely? I'm determined to get to
the bottom of this lol! there has to be a record of her birth somewhere.......
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Originally posted by maire View PostJoe my granda was in the army in Ireland ,fussiliers, my husbands father was in the us Navy, not sure about his grandads though, I'm sure there was conscription back then, or the draft as its called here, is that what you meant? My grandfather was serving in Ranikhet India 100 years ago when my mum was born, also her older brother in 1911. I'm still trying to find my granny's birth cert, she had to show it sometime, if the old man was in the army surely? We heard she was born in England. Although her parents were Irish. But we keep banging our heads against a wall trying to find her birth cert!
was your grandad in the dublin fusiliers [ or other] , if you post his full name and date of birth , and possible address or area at that time i might be able to get some background information if you wish [maybe you already have it.in god i trust...everyone else cash only.
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I hit a brick wall looking for my grandmothers birth cert a while back. It turned out she had not been given her name when she was registered so she was just down as Female (Surname). I found her in the end by chance and a bit of luck I suppose. Here is an example of Female Kelly on Familysearch https://familysearch.org/search/reco...ion_id=1408347. I hope this will help some in a similar situation.
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Originally posted by KatieMorag View PostMaire, the "born in England" thing might be a red herring, though I'm sure you'll
have searched the Irish records as well. Did your grandmother (or great-grandmother, I forget which) come from a military family herself? In which case
she could have been born somewhere else entirely? I'm determined to get to
the bottom of this lol! there has to be a record of her birth somewhere.......
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Originally posted by oscarhi maire,francis laffan married ann lodge in st marys on the 26-80-1894 he lived at no 3 nerneys court his fathers name was henry and his mothers name was margaret coyle,.was this henrys brother ? if so you now have his fathers and mothers name,
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Obviously it was the Leinster regiment the granda was in, where did I get the fusiliers from? Doe anyone on here know if you had to have a passport to go to India back in 1909/10? Would my granny have needed one to join her husband serving there with the army?
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Originally posted by maire View PostAnybody know hot to figure out the house numbers of the streets on the census forms?
room number, eg 52.2 xx Street would mean they lived at number 52 and their
room (or occasionally 2 rooms) was no.2. If you click on "house and building
returns" (below the names of the family) you'll see each house on the street,
how many rooms each family had etc.
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King/Whelan
Grasping at straws here, but I've tried all other avenues. Does anyone know of a family called King, one of whom married a Whelan, may have live north inner city 40s and then possibly Cabra or Phibsboro area. One of the Whelans had a strange name, Chrisdinah, but may have used the name Dinah. Please PM me with any info.
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