Oh if yer Irish!

rdem · Post by **rdem** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:29 am

If you're Irish or just green around the gills. Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Here's to all with famine Irish ancestry in Scotland.
mine include:
Dempsey c. 1848
Morgan c. 1848
Bonnar c. 1850
McNeillis c. 1850
O' Donnell c. 1850
Dougan c. 1850

Post by **joette** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:52 am

Just discovering lots of Irish Ancestry on all sides.Apart from the Scotts who seem rooted in the Border area & the Waddells who originated on Mars or some other unenumerated planet.

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:17 pm

My O'Brien's are the most obvious potato famine escapists in my tree....had a son in 1844 in Co. Leitrim, but had another son in 1851 Glasgow. Mother's poorhouse record puts date of immigration right at 1845.

I love it...they must habve been such battlers!

Happy St Pat's Day all!

Nina

Clydesdale · Post by **Clydesdale** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:23 pm

I have turned up a few too - no wonder I couldn't find them on SP! My great-great grandfather, George Berry was born in Ireland c1840 and by the 1861 census he was lodging in Govan age 22. All the census says is "Ireland" - isn't it infuriating??

It seems my father went over when he was very young to visit family (c.1920) and all I know is that he went to Dublin. Maybe one day .........

Happy St Patrick's day to you all.

Helen

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:10 pm

Last week, rooting through the family deed box, which proved remarkably lacking in hidden treasure etc., I did however stumble upon my grandfather´s passport, with a stamps from 1941 for a week´s trip in winter to N. Ireland. Why would an elderly semi-retired chemist from Burntisland travel in wartime to Northern Ireland?

He was the informant on his mother in law´s DC and obviously knew of the Irish connection, though he did not ever mention it to his children. No reason is known to the surviving family for the trip - was he digging????? How easy was it to cross to Donegal in 1941 from N. Ireland. Even to go to N. Ireland then, he needed a passport. Just ruminating........

Good hunting,

Thrall

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:50 pm

Thrall wrote:Last week, rooting through the family deed box, which proved remarkably lacking in hidden treasure etc.,
Thrall

Thrall - a DEED box ? as in title deeds or deed box as in deid dead

sorry, It must be past my bedtime

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:11 am

WilmaM wrote: Thrall - a DEED box ? as in title deeds or deed box as in deid dead

Hi Wilma - Yes.....

Thrall

rdem · Post by **rdem** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:17 pm

Hi Thrall:

I see you are in Iceland. If you go to the General Discussion, there's someone looking for translation from Icelandic, do you or know anyone that can help?

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:27 pm

Hi rdem, thanks, I got it sorted. Not the result we were looking for though!

Good hunting,

Thrall

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