I am bogged down with my family tree research at the moment, having broken through a long standing brick wall, so have been a bit absent....I will catch up with commenting shortly
What a wonderful view.
I am busy with family trees too, not only mine but that of a friend too. It is very time consuming isn't it, especially when the people you are looking for don't want to be found, ha ha
@onewing Exactly! My breakthrough was due to finding some baptism records in Ireland from 1820's-1840's, well before civil registration in 1864....so it was a bit like winning the lottery! I've found several children who are siblings to my 3x G Grandfather that I previously didn't know about, but suspected that there were more. I'm slowly working through them all, finding who they married, and then their children, and their children....and so it goes on. Such fun :)
@leggzy Ha ha it never ends does it. A bit like eating an elephant, one bite at a time.
You did well to find Irish baptism records because so many were destroyed.
I never tire of these lovely views... I have done family research too & oh, the hours & hours you spend....but, I am not sorry I did this.. good luck & 'happy findings.'
@leggzy Wow!! Lucky you finding records from Ireland. That place is like a black hole. I am 1/4 Irish and we have had no luck at all in finding records for the ancestors of the immigrants that came to Oz. What county/parish in Ireland did you hit the jackpot with?
@terryliv my dad is from County Down in Northern Ireland, but his mother came from County Antrim, which is where I found the baptism records in the civil parish of Derriaghy. Other branches of his family I haven't been so lucky. I've had every church in the district where my 3x paternal G.Grandparents lived, looking for their marriage around 1830, but no luck unfortunately...I at least found all but 1 of their children's baptisms. Which part of Ireland are your ancestors from?
@leggzy Clonmellon in Co Westmeath and Jonesborough in Co Armagh.
So many of the Irish villages are so picturesque and have such beautiful names like BallyImHungry etc but mine had to come from bloody Jonesborough. That's not Irish!!! We travelled around Ireland visiting the places of relevance to us and to add insult to injury, Jonesborough would have to be the ugliest village in Ireland. It is awful.
The only positive thing we got out of of our visit there was that we found the "house" where my great grandmother was born in Edenappa, just outside of Jonesborough. Would you believe that the back boundary of the land they rented, about 50mtrs from the house, would in later years become the boundary between the republic and the Ulster mob in the north. How cool is that?
BTW, Rhoda is totally addicted to genealogy and has researched the ancestry and documented the family trees of quite a few people including 365er Pam Knowler
@terryliv I meant to say also that Rhoda is 1/8 Irish and has her own castle, Mocollup Castle in Co Waterford. I posted a shot of it in 365 many moons ago.
Our Irish (Republic) son in law was not impressed by the fact Rhoda's Irish ancestors went to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell in the 1640s when he invaded Ireland and became part of the ruling protestant upper class. Surely you have heard of the Fowells of Fortesque. No? Ah well. LOL
One of the dudes from this line was called Valentine Greatrakes and he became known as Greatrakes the Stroker. Yep, he was a faith healer and is reputed to have cured one of the English Kings simply by stroking him. Far Out!!!!!
I'll bet you wished you had never asked about my Irish roots now.
@terryliv How interesting that the close proximity of the property border was to later become the border between north & south. Rhoda's castle looks very impressive, do you have an after shot of the renovations you had planned? lol I thought it resembled a few castle ruins we visited around Ireland...perhaps they were built off the same plan in those days?! haha
I am busy with family trees too, not only mine but that of a friend too. It is very time consuming isn't it, especially when the people you are looking for don't want to be found, ha ha
You did well to find Irish baptism records because so many were destroyed.
So many of the Irish villages are so picturesque and have such beautiful names like BallyImHungry etc but mine had to come from bloody Jonesborough. That's not Irish!!! We travelled around Ireland visiting the places of relevance to us and to add insult to injury, Jonesborough would have to be the ugliest village in Ireland. It is awful.
The only positive thing we got out of of our visit there was that we found the "house" where my great grandmother was born in Edenappa, just outside of Jonesborough. Would you believe that the back boundary of the land they rented, about 50mtrs from the house, would in later years become the boundary between the republic and the Ulster mob in the north. How cool is that?
BTW, Rhoda is totally addicted to genealogy and has researched the ancestry and documented the family trees of quite a few people including 365er Pam Knowler
Our Irish (Republic) son in law was not impressed by the fact Rhoda's Irish ancestors went to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell in the 1640s when he invaded Ireland and became part of the ruling protestant upper class. Surely you have heard of the Fowells of Fortesque. No? Ah well. LOL
One of the dudes from this line was called Valentine Greatrakes and he became known as Greatrakes the Stroker. Yep, he was a faith healer and is reputed to have cured one of the English Kings simply by stroking him. Far Out!!!!!
I'll bet you wished you had never asked about my Irish roots now.
And I found the castle. See https://365project.org/terryliv/from-the-archiv/2014-04-03