Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

An interesting question. Somewhere on the web is a list of members of the Drumgooland Presbyterian Church in County Down, (now Northern) Ireland, who served in WW1. From memory, one fought with the British Army while maybe half a dozen had recently emigrated and fought with the Canadians. The local ...

Each hospital kept a War Diary, just like each regiment. The regiment War Diaries refer to junior men simply as 'other ranks', but the hospital Diaries use names. I found several references to my ggf in the Diary of the Wimereux Hospital. He died there, so we knew the location from letters received....

Some Irish Roman Catholic parishes used Latin for registration. You may want to search the various Latin versions of Julia and Denis. As an example; here 'Dionisius' is used for Denis in Carlow in 1866: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=qzs691&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&...

Civil registration of births in Ireland began in 1864. Julia Kinsella may have been born just before then. You may be able to identify Kinsella children born just after 1864 with father 'Denis'; then check the appropriate Catholic Church baptism registers for a Julia. For example; these children wer...

I haven't absorbed all this, but a few thoughts: 1. Didn't civil registration - of all non-R.C. marriages - only start about 1845? R.C. marriage registration started in 1864? Did the authorities say that there was no civil registration? That would make sense if he married before 1845. They would adv...

There's nothing obvious on irishgenealogy. You would expect to find the marriage registration there if it happened in Ireland. It might be worth checking the Scotland's People site.

This speculation 'I think you are right about Lewis not marrying the mother of the children, as there appear to be 2 birth registrations in 1938; one with surname Rymer and one with Gaylor. The same occurs for a different birth in 1939 of which I'm sure you're aware.' http://www.rootschat.com/forum/...

At the first marriage he was Lewis Robert Rymer, address St. Marylebone. He gave his father's name as Francis Rymer, a soldier. Louise/Louisa Francis Rymer lived all her life in Brixton, close to St. Marylebone. She was a young woman in the early 1900s. At the time of her death in 1943 she was livin...

He was still a waiter, living in Edinburgh, by 12 July 1945. The British Newspaper Archive has a story from The Berwick Advertiser reporting that he was charged with a 'breach of the peace'. The published introduction stops short of telling who occupied the house where the trouble occurred.

It's not very obvious, but the Irish Census has a 'More Search Options' link. Selecting Religion: 'Roman Catholic' throws up 268 RC Mellons in Ireland in 1901. Use of the County field shows that the great majority of these lived in Londonderry or Tyrone. Some lived in Draperstown, Co. Londonderry. M...

It's not easy. You'll probably not find an expert, since your case of Danish database DOB, but no origin, is unique. I'd be wary of the DOB and maybe of the name 'Margaret'. Roman Catholic children got names added in later years. For example; she could have been baptised Mary and became Mary Margare...

Ancestry is flagging updates to Liverpool Catholic records including, at least, Liverpool, England, Catholic Baptisms, 1741-1906 https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2180 Liverpool, England, Catholic Burials, 1813-1987 https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2183 Liverpool, En...

There were/are lots of Lindsays in Ireland. The 1901 census shows approx. 1600; half of them in Counties Antrim and Down. Unfortunately birth registration only became compulsory in Ireland in 1864.

A William James Wilson was born in Belfast on 2nd November 1888, making him 27 on 27th December 1915. His parents were Thomas Wilson, a sailor, and Mary Wilson, nee Martin. https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1888/02498/1926717.pdf Maybe there is no conne...

Presumably they were Roman Catholic. Records usually started about 1830. if you know the names of parents and children of the ones who stayed in Ireland, you will be able to search the Irish Catholic records for the appropriate years: http://registers.nli.ie/ Searching is via parish. Co. Tyrone Pari...

Blue70 wrote:Do you know what religion they were? As it wasn't C of E it's unlikely to be available anywhere online. Here are churches Genuki for Prestwich:-

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Prestwich


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Thanks Blue; I think first I 'must try harder' to find a death registration for his first wife!

Thanks Bert; I'd forgotten about Lancs BMD!

I was looking for this marriage in Ireland but familysearch shows it in Lancashire. I need to confirm that the groom was a widower. I've looked for it on Ancestry, but no joy. I'm hoping someone with expertise in Lancashire records may have better luck. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2D...

S. S. Batiscan 'Foundered off Gannet Rock on a voyage from Louisburg to Saint John N.B. with coal.'
http://sunderlandships.com/view.php?ref=103618

Wrong place, wrong time?

Mary's huge list of Irish links, including details on ordering Irish copy certificates...

https://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/ ... 14&t=13912