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well um im try to look for my mothers father who she has never met and is wondering what he looks like and who he is .she says she has a good prospective of who he is but i would like to know more about my grandfather and im sure my mother would the ...
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ANNAHUGHESFININEN
I am trying to find out information of my GG Grandmother, Sarah Ellen Doyle. Facts that can be verified are that she was sent out to Australia when she was 15 as an orphan with the Earl Grey Irish Orphan's Scheme. She landed in Sydney in 1850. Her li...
Surnames:
DITCHAM, DOYLE
As I glanced through my KILTS AND COW DUNG FLATS regarding my STRATHMORE AND PASCOE VALE journal,I couldn't help thinking that it would never have been written without the enthusiasm of Jenny Shugg. Then my mind drifted back a further two years, and ...
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BROCCHI, DAVISON, MILLER, SHUGG
On 17 Dec 1846 my 2xggrandfather James Edwards married Sarah Elizabeth FAUCHON at St James Church, Bermondsey
His father was listed as William Edwards, dead. James was a tailor and, after the marriage he and Sarah moved to Circus Street, Greenwich,...
Surnames:
EDWARDSPEARCEDEBNEYFAUCHON
Looking for parents and sources for N B Rains, b. abt. 1847 VA.. living in Sunflower Co. MS in 1870. His son, my great grandfather was born there in 1876, George Washington Rains, who died in Upshur Co. TX.
Surnames:
RAINS
I am looking for information regarding FREDERICH(K) DOMKEN. He lived in Prussia, left from Wuertemberg Germany in 1800's. He first appears in the 1880 census. I cannot find any record of him or his wife Sophie entering the US. I know they lived i...
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DOMKEN
My name is Kevin Spratt I was born in Quincy,Il in 1965 to Howard an Sherry Spratt My grandparents where Milo and Mary Lee Spratt of Durham ,Mo I married my wife Kelly in 1986 and I have two sons Dalton Dale Spratt born in 1991 and Dustyn Dell Spratt...
the FIRE at the ROYAL HOTEL 4 March 1915
info taken from various editions of the papers of the day via Papers Past
MAN BURNED TO DEATH
Nelson, March 4 1915
... They Royal Hotel, a three-storey wooden building in Bridge Street, owned by Dodson ...
Surnames:
AITKEN, BARRETT, BEATTIE, BERYTHELSON, BLOOMFIELD
and 16 more
I am looking for the moran family who came from County Mayo to New York and then on to Carbondale, Pa, where she married William Clark, whose family is also from County Mayo. Does anyone know how to look for them?
Surnames:
CLARK, MORAN
There seems to be a road where Price cemetery Is/was. Can anyone tell me if the cemetery is still there and if not, how do I find out who was buried there? Pamelasj
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JONES
My husbands fathers name was Charlie Z Jones. He married Jessie E. May Evans Rumley Jones. They lived in Greensboro,NC and my husband is their only son. Charlie Z. was previously married and they had I think 4 sons and 2 daughters. One of those child...
Surnames:
JONES, MAY, RUMLEY
My mothers name; Margaret Curry b. 6 Dec 1914 reared at 40 Frederick Street South Shields. Siblings: Willamina David Kay-Isabella Irene. Married Frank Thomas Hewett C 1935
Her mothers name: Margaret Fletcher-Taylor B.13.January 1890 at her parents...
Surnames:
DENNY, HATTABAUGH, HUDSPETH, SANGSTER
I am searching for antecedants and descendants of an ancestor of mine:-
Karl Robert Schramm who was born on 19.3.1837 in Berlin.
His father was Wilhelm Schramm, an inspector in a hospital.
Any information gratefully received.
Many thanks.
roger@...
Hi,
I am trying to trace my family line on my father's side of the family but am hitting a brick wall with my grandfather - Walter Francis McAteer. He was born in 1877 in County Antrim possible Balycastle. He may have been in the royal Navy or Mer...
I'm looking for any info on the TIERNEY family who lived in County Westmeath, Ireland around 1782-1812. I know Michael Tierney was born 1810 to Mathew Tierney and Jane(or Joanne)HICKS born in Roscommon, Ireland. Four siblings were also born before t...
Surnames:
HICKS, TIERNEY
Refer to my earlier QUINLAN journal and the ones about AIRPORT WEST and ABERFELDIE.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14
At Quarter past Two O Clock. At SCOTTS HOTEL MELBOURNE.
GREAT REALISING SALE of VALUABLE LANDHOLDINGS
In the Estate of the Late Mr ...
Surnames:
AIREY, BLACKWELL, BRANNIGAN, BRODIE, CARROLL
and 13 more