Handwriting decipher thread *must post link to full page*

Mountrivers House

funeral to Aghabullogue

JDERIC2017 wrote: »

Is Mountrivers house in cork?

there are several - including one in Co. Cork, see Landed Estates.ie

what year is the death notice ?

from Lewis Directory for Aghabulogue parish Co. Cork 'Mountrivers N. Whiting esq.'

http://ir.speakingsame.com/p.php?q=Rylane,%20Co.+Cork&id=125566

ath262 wrote: »

Death register gives age as 69, Macroom district place of death Mounttrivers - so the Agahbullogue one. There are townlands named Rylane and Mountrivers in the parish.


Rylane townland & village on Logainm, Mountrivers townland is nearby, historic OS maps show the house

Thanks for the help everyone.

Jacobus (James)

It's a lovely manuscript of approx 40 pages. It's the original. I photographed the pages today in the Ofiach library Armagh.a special word of thanks to the curator Mr Roddy Hegarty for facilitating me.
Thanks for deciphering James Mullen.

louis346789 wrote: »

I photographed the pages today in the Ofiach library Armagh.a special word of thanks to the curator Mr Roddy Hegarty for facilitating me.
Change of personnel since I was there, is Bernard still there?
It's good to hear that it is open, I wish libraries and archives down here would cop on and reopen also.

For the surname, as you say, I think it is Miller/Millar, not Mullen.
I think the second-last letter is probably E rather than A.

For the first name, it could be Richd for Richard.
That would be the letters R I C H followed by a superscript D.

I considered Michl for Michael, but the first letter does not seem to be M,
and the superscript does not look like L.

I also considered Patck for Patrick, but what should be a T is not crossed,
and there does appear to be a dot for a letter I, and a superscript letter D at the end,
and anyway it would usually be Patk rather than Patck.

So of these three names, I think Richd. is the most likely,
even though the R is difficult to make out and looks like it is two separate characters rather than one letter.

louis346789 wrote: »

However no people called Miller in the Griffith.
Louis

Did you try the tithe applotments ( national archives of Ireland genealogy website)?, Much closer to 1824. A family of Millars could have emigrated by the time Griffith's men got to dromiskin.
Definitely Rich[ar]d Millar.

Hi thanks for this. I forgot to check the religious census. Yes Millar is a local name.
Louis