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Hi Dee

Just looked at the most recent one it has not been opened. The others go back a while and I had so much stuff that I deleted it. Bad move probably. I'd more or less given up until this person uploaded the lady I think is (was) my aunt on the 5th August. Before that I was even more of a beginner than I am now and it's been suggested that some people change their email addresses and don't let GRU know?

thanks for the tip though, it's such a shame though!

Maureen x

Hi Maureen,

do you know if the messages have been opened? You can check by going to messages and then looking at SENT messages... if there is still a purple envelope next to there name then the message hasn't been opened and read.


Dee x

Would be very grateful for any polite suggestions for this query please!

I have found someone on this site who has at least 4 connections with me. The McCloskey side that is. After 3 polite requests to this person I'm getting no response. I realise that sometimes people are looking for ancestors rather than living relatives (I recently re-discovered a long lost cousin and was a bit taken aback. Pleasantly so!) Could there be another reason this person seems reluctant? I'd put money on there being a connection to me?

Thank you in advance.......hopefully

Maureen

Thanks again both of you. Now I better get back to it and give you a break before I get us all thrown of the site

Maureen xx
Have a feeling that most of the family (the three youngest never married) left for either Eire or Scotland but will try I did have a cousin whose name I know!

By the way, if you search the internet for mccloskey londonderry, you will see there are still people of that surname in Derry.

Keep searching
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails&c=fs%3A1408347

and you*ll find them, I am sure :-)

Also, try posting on rootschat site
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,57.0.html

and asking in the rootsweb mailing list -
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NIR/NIR-DERRY.html

Hi Maureen,
found two births for an Edward, one Edward John other Edward,
Edward McCloskey Londonderry Oct-Dec 1915 Volumn 2 Page 165.

Edward John McCloskey Londonderry Oct-Dec 1913 Volumn 2 Page 144.
I don,t think that they were as fussy either Maureen, i have found a few of mine interfaith too but family now won,t talk about it and they have down on censi as Catholic.
Lily.

Hi Lily
Thanks again for your help. Could you advise I'm tempted to join emeraldancestors.com but after I tried their freebe for a marriage, which was only a civil I got cold feet, because the only one I could find for Sarah and James McCloskey was in 1912 and I'm fairly sure they were already married by then despite the myth of our ancestors 'purity'!

Would I expect to find a record of a marriage in parish records? I have tracked down 4 Sarahs who could be candidates one living very near to my grandfather who seems likely being a farmer's daughter although she is Presbyterian I know people weren't as fussy as we thought about interfaith marriages. Better not ramble on any more.
Maureen

Hi Maureen you are welcome,
There is a birth for a Jane 1912
McCloskey Jane Londonderry Apr-June 1912 Volumn 2 Page 149.
Will check that again later as have no biro to write it down and have to go out for awhile.
Mothers maiden name on books afte 1903 but it is not on site.
Lily.

Oops thanks Dee it seems I'm getting a bit confused you've all been so helpful!

Maureen x

Hi Lily

Thank you so much for the info

I have discovered that an Edward was born after my father so perhaps he was named for the child that died. I'm really not sure but that sounds the most obvious explanation. Patrick is on the census (1911) has having been born after James Peter, it looks as though there is a year between them. My aunt seems to confirm that Patrick was the second child.

After my father there was Edward and then Jane. I'm not sure in which order though.

I have obviously got loads to do. I have been trolling through the Irish records trying to find my grandmother's maiden name. I'll keep going since I'm learning a lot, but it's only guess work until my parent's marriage cert arrives. I found three Sarah's of the right age so far.

Thanks so much not sure how I would manged without all you kind folk!
Maureen

HI,
Births
James Peter McCloskey Londonderry Apr-June 1904 Volume 2 Page 142.

Agnes McCloskey Londonderry Oct-Dec 1908 Volume 2 Page 140.

John Joseph McCloskey Londonderry Oct-Dec 1910 Volumn 2 Page 143.
Cannot find a birth for Patrick.
Did Edward die as a baby, there is a birth for an Edward in 1907, but do not see a death.
Family say that they had 5 children, 4 still living and there is a gap between Patrick c1906 and Agnes 1908
Lily

Yes, and Dee found it for you :-)


Have a look in the 1901 Irish census too.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
Census of Ireland 1901/1911
The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Read more about their digitisation.

There is a wealth of interesting information in that site.


You're welcome. Hope you are better properly soon.

Happy hunting :-)
(from me, an eight Irish)

Joy

You forced me to use my brain for a change.

I remembered I had written to one of my father's sisters years ago namely one Agnes McCloskey. I have just had a rifle in the attic and found the letters. It's over 23 years ago so I couldn't remember a great deal. She gives me details of my father's family and it sounds as though you got it right. I am so grateful to you.

I have not long recovered from an illness hence the rambling. It could be the Irish ancestry though!!

A thousand thanks
Maureen

Joy do you mean the www. pilot etc? I am about to look!

I'm intrigued by the census details, but will have to wait for more details as already mentioned. My puzzlement is the fact that I thought my father was the youngest brother and he definitely had a brother called Edward. Still your info was so interesting I hope I've got my facts wrong! Could save me a lot of research.

Thank you again
Maureen

Very many thanks all of you.

Now I have to wait for my parents marriage certificate to arrive to make sure this actually is my father. Some of the names don't ring bells.

Maureen

Again your help is so much appreciated.

Hi Maureen,

If you wanted your fathers birth certificate here are the details;

John Joseph McCloskey

Oct - Dec 1910

Regitsration District; Londonderry

Volume number; 2

Page Number; 143


You would need to order from this website;

http://www.groireland.ie/

On there it explains how to do it as it is different from ordering in England and Wales.



Dee x

Did you see his birth registration in the site that I gave?

Many thanks Barry

And this is the site for Irish civil registration records:
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails&c=fs%3A1408347