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by hamishwaz
Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:00 am
Forum: Research Sources
Topic: rootsireland help
Replies: 6
Views: 1044

Re: rootsireland help

Hi Andy, I did find that post when i first started researching and it gave me a great starting point so thank you for that. In that post you mentioned John Downie and Bridget McCurdy's Marriage in Cushendon in 1855. I found one of the childrens birth record that says this but another gives Culfeight...
by hamishwaz
Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tuberculosis Deaths 1940s/1950s Glasgow
Replies: 1
Views: 263

Tuberculosis Deaths 1940s/1950s Glasgow

Hi Guys, I have a family of 15 in Glasgow I am researching 12 of which I have found burial entries in the book for St Peter's Dalbeth Cemetery. You would assume the other 3 would have been buried there also but there is no record however, the 3 that are missing all died from tuberculosis in differen...
by hamishwaz
Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:28 pm
Forum: Research Sources
Topic: Greenock Telegraph/Glasgow Express 1917
Replies: 5
Views: 585

Re: Greenock Telegraph/Glasgow Express 1917

The port glasgow express on find my past had the article I was looking for, I then found it actually has several articles for my ancestors.. Just need to cough up the subscription to read them all :shock:

Thanks for your help
by hamishwaz
Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:54 am
Forum: Research Sources
Topic: Greenock Telegraph/Glasgow Express 1917
Replies: 5
Views: 585

Greenock Telegraph/Glasgow Express 1917

Hi

Does anyone know where I get an extract from the Greenock telegraph or the Glasgow Express 17.01.1917?

I can't find any online

Thanks
by hamishwaz
Sat Aug 15, 2020 10:39 pm
Forum: Research Sources
Topic: School Records
Replies: 3
Views: 663

School Records

Hi, I'm looking to find some information about my Grandmother who died young. She was the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants who lived on Oxford Street in the Gorbals and lived there in the 1920s/30s/40s. I have her birth and death records which have very little info but i'm now hoping to learn more ...
by hamishwaz
Fri May 15, 2020 10:30 pm
Forum: Research Sources
Topic: rootsireland help
Replies: 6
Views: 1044

Re: rootsireland help

Yes, that's them. One child's birth cert says Cushendun and another says Culfreightrin. I'm hoping to narrow it down to help search for the previous generation and it would be nice to have the record
by hamishwaz
Fri May 15, 2020 12:11 am
Forum: Research Sources
Topic: rootsireland help
Replies: 6
Views: 1044

rootsireland help

Hi guys, I'm asking for a cheeky favour. Could someone with access to rootsireland check for a marriage between John Downie and Bridget McCurdy in Jan 1856 in either Cushendun, Culfreightrin or Rathlin Island. I cant bring myself to pay the one day fee for one search that could very well not show an...
by hamishwaz
Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:22 am
Forum: Research Sources
Topic: What do the letters mean?
Replies: 8
Views: 1149

Re: What do the letters mean?

It is a voters roll
by hamishwaz
Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:59 am
Forum: Research Sources
Topic: What do the letters mean?
Replies: 8
Views: 1149

What do the letters mean?

Does anyone know what the letters mean next to the tenement number? (i.e. 110 D)
Is is as simple as flat letter? I though flats were numbered 0/1, 0/2, 1/1, 1/2 etc
by hamishwaz
Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:34 am
Forum: Scottish People
Topic: Elsie Berekis, 131 Oxford St, Glasgow
Replies: 2
Views: 266

Elsie Berekis, 131 Oxford St, Glasgow

Hi, Im trying to find out any info possible on my grand mother Elsie Berekis/Alese Berekewicze. We knew very little about her till recently but hope someone may know more. She was born in 1922 and live on Oxford St in the gorbals, Glasgow. She married Patrick Coyle Downie in 1946 and she died in Ruc...