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Genealogy - buses come together

  • 08-10-2010 6:50pm
    #1
    johnny_doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭


    searched IrishGenealogy last night and came across the marriage of my maternal Gt Grandparents Charles Edward Augustus McCullen and Catherine Carson. This has been a brick wall and then suddenly the record is there.....

    http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/3f456b0892508

    Was then able to do searches on Catherine Carson's line and found more branches of the tree and added a new surname to the tree - Alderdice - a name I've not come across before. Found some of them in the 1901 and 1911 census plus a group who went to London in the mid 1800's.

    The above marriage link gives Charles's fathers name as James so decided to do a search on Ancestry and stumbled on his son's probate record instead - James Alexander McCullen who died in Liverpool in April 1940.

    Just waiting for the third bus to come along now... hopefully it'll be a record about James McCullen.


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  • #2
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    That's cool!

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #3
    johnny_doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭johnny_doyle


    3rd bus came along.

    National Archives now has a medal card for James Alexander McCullen b1881, Co Down. Served in the Mercantile Marine during WW1 and awarded VM, BWM etc.

    These were all records that weren't available a short while ago and then suddenly all click into place on 3 different service providers.


  • #4
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    It's amazing how one small piece of evidence can open everything up! :)

    Well done for persevering


  • #5
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Thats excellent news Johnny Doyle, after all the help you have given me I am very pleased things have worked out for you.

    I hope all the info falls into your lap from now on.


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