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Handwriting decipher thread *must post link to full page*

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    #2012
    spurious
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    Looking at the S of South Dublin up the top, I would say South Earl Street.

    18 South Earl Street in 1873 was tenements, 18 North Earl Street was a bootmakers, though of course there could have been accommodation above.
    I think it's South though, considering marriages were usually in the bride's parish. St.Catherine's is around the corner from South Earl Street.


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    #2013
    Barney224
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    spurious wrote: »
    Looking at the S of South Dublin up the top, I would say South Earl Street.

    18 South Earl Street in 1873 was tenements, 18 North Earl Street was a bootmakers, though of course there could have been accommodation above.
    I think it's South though, considering marriages were usually in the bride's parish. St.Catherine's is around the corner from South Earl Street.

    Super! Thanks a million.


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    #2014
    VirginiaB
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭VirginiaB


    If you Google 'corn porter' in quotes, you'll see some hits. There is a 'Dictionary of Old Occupations' that explains it tho it is pretty self-evident. Corn porters worked at the docks unloading corn/grain and carrying it to warehouses or wherever it had to go.

    In the 19c, many Irish in New York worked as porters when the city was an active working port, perhaps the largest in the Americas. I have not seen 'corn porter' as an occupation in NY--just plain porter. I am curious as to why a corn porter might be different from any other porter.


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    #2015
    pinkypinky
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    One of the worst examples of handwriting I've seen on the civil registers.
    https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1968/04179/4065425.pdf

    I'm interested in who registered the death of James Gaynor (number 188) - I have all the other details from his death notice.

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    #2016
    spurious
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    Lordy.
    I think it says
    Owen Flanagan
    Occupier.
    Royal City Dublin Hosp.

    **edit. Looking at it again, maybe Edward Flanagan.
    I think the last three entries are all Edward Flanagan.


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    #2017
    pedroeibar1
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    spurious wrote: »
    **edit. Looking at it again, maybe Edward Flanagan..


    I agree with 'Edward Flanagan'


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    #2018
    Hermy
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    I'm struggling to read the name of the child of Patrick and Bridget Curtis baptised in Kingstown on May 30th 1832.

    It's the right hand page four lines above where June 1832 is written.

    LINK

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    #2019
    spurious
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    rootsireland has it as Honestas.


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    #2020
    Hermy
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    Yes, I thought it looked something like that but I'm not familiar with the term so couldn't be at all sure.

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    #2021
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Another one for your consideration.

    It's the last entry on the page - birth of Denis Corbett.
    Any opinions on the second word of the place of birth, the one after Glencollins?

    486115.png

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    #2022
    spurious
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    I'd say that's one you'll need a local for.
    The same place is entered for a Crimmen death.
    First entry on this page


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    #2023
    Vetch
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    Nohivale. The civil parish is Nohavaldaly.


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    #2024
    Hermy
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    Looking at that other record I'm seeing the spelling as it should be.

    I was reading it as mhivale rather than nohivale.

    An entry in the NUI Galway Landed Estates Database mentions Nohavaldaly which might be it.

    EDIT: Beat me to it Vetch. Cheers!

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    #2025
    montgo
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭montgo


    Hi,
    Can someone help with translation from Latin of this marriage record on 10 Feb 1836. *Right hand side of page - Marriage of Barry & Daly. I really only want to know what does "mea cura" (Spelling?) mean?

    Thanks


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    #2026
    pedroeibar1
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    montgo wrote: »
    Hi, I really only want to know what does "mea cura" (Spelling?) mean?

    Thanks


    It means 'of my care' which I infer to mean 'of my parish/ pastoral care'. The expression is repeated throughout. I cannot think of an alternative.


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    #2027
    montgo
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    Many thanks Pedro.

    I hadn't seen that expression before but assumed that she was from the parish.


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    #2028
    Hermy
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    I'm struggling with the groom in this marriage because among other things it doesn't mention his fathers name.
    However, his address has me confused as well but maybe I'm reading it wrong.
    Any thoughts?

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    #2029
    spurious
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    2 Tolka cottages, Dundrum?
    I think they meant Drumcondra.


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    #2030
    Hermy
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    Yeah, that's the thing - Tolka Cottages are in Finglas, not Dundrum.

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    #2031
    hblock21
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    This is a hard one.
    What's the mother's surname?
    Honora........ Hahan ..... Maher ??

    https://www.findmypast.ie/transcript?id=IRE%2FPRS%2FBAP%2F4784045


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    #2032
    New Home
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    That link from FB is for a page that asks for a sign on.


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    #2033
    hblock21
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    New Home wrote: »
    That link from FB is for a page that asks for a sign on.

    https://www.findmypast.ie/transcript?id=IRE%2FPRS%2FBAP%2F4784045

    You probably need to sign in in.any case.


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    #2034
    New Home
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    I probably won't, but thanks anyway.


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    #2035
    Jellybaby1
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    Hermy wrote: »
    I'm struggling with the groom in this marriage because among other things it doesn't mention his fathers name.
    However, his address has me confused as well but maybe I'm reading it wrong.
    Any thoughts?


    Might it be George William Doolan?


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    #2036
    Hermy
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    Yes, it's George William Doolan/Doolin but the address had/has me confused.

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    #2037
    Hermy
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    hblock21 wrote: »
    This is a hard one.
    What's the mother's surname?
    Honora........ Hahan ..... Maher ??

    https://www.findmypast.ie/transcript?id=IRE%2FPRS%2FBAP%2F4784045

    Looks like Honora Mahan to me.

    Here's a link to the image at the NLI site.

    https://registers.nli.ie//registers/vtls000632161#page/78/mode/1up

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    #2038
    hblock21
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    Hermy wrote: »
    Looks like Honora Mahan to me.

    Here's a link to the image at the NLI site.

    https://registers.nli.ie//registers/vtls000632161#page/78/mode/1up

    Yes could be. Thanks for your suggestion


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    #2039
    Jellybaby1
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    Hermy wrote: »
    Yes, it's George William Doolan/Doolin but the address had/has me confused.


    Ah I get you now, I thought you needed help with the name as well.


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    #2040
    Hermy
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    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    ...help with the name as well.

    I did initially think it was George Hellenius or something like that but then I realised it was just William.

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    #2041
    spurious
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    Hermy wrote: »
    Yeah, that's the thing - Tolka Cottages are in Finglas, not Dundrum.

    There were Tolka cottages in Drumcondra too, on Botanic avenue, right beside the bridge, beside where the Lemon's factory used to be.
    Here's a photo of one of (I think) the last one.

    The cottages used to flood regularly, quite badly in 1931, 1938 and 1946, enough to make the papers. The residents built a statue of Our Lady to protect them from fever about the turn of the 20th century but it was swept away in floods in 1954. A replacement one was commissioned and I know it was still there when I was a child, but it may be gone now.


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