Sue Mackay
21-10-2007, 8:21 PM
Like most people I have been an avid user of Google and have it as my Home Page, but recently my son's American football team have been fundraising via a site which requires me to go via Yahoo. For the first time I tried out their search engine and did my usual test of putting in GILSTAIN, a very unusual name I am researching. They didn't have as many hits as Google, but did come up with a website I had never seen before.
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My 3xgreat grandfather, Arthur GILSTAIN was born in Londonderry, Ireland, but I was never sure whether I actually had Irish ancestry because he was born into the 49th regiment, which was stationed in Londonderry in 1786, and he enlisted in the regiment himself in Jamaica in 1796 at the age of TEN :eek: When the regiment got sent back to Ireland he married a widow in Cork in 1819, whose maiden name was Frances BROADBROOK, and whose son by her first husband, Richard MAHONY, is mentioned in my 3xgreat grandfather's will. Arthur and Frances ended up in Cape Town, South Africa, and their eldest son married a Helena BROADBROOK who had come out from Ireland in 1859, and I presumed was a connection of his mother's, but I had no idea where the BROADBROOKs came from until I saw this site. There was the whole BROADBROOK family in Youghal, County Cork, well researched, and including a reference to Frances BROADBROOK and her first marriage to Henry MAHONY. I am now back to 1660 - and in IRELAND of all places, where information is notoriously difficult to come by. Apparently my forebears are all buried in Youghal - yet another place to visit!
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My 3xgreat grandfather, Arthur GILSTAIN was born in Londonderry, Ireland, but I was never sure whether I actually had Irish ancestry because he was born into the 49th regiment, which was stationed in Londonderry in 1786, and he enlisted in the regiment himself in Jamaica in 1796 at the age of TEN :eek: When the regiment got sent back to Ireland he married a widow in Cork in 1819, whose maiden name was Frances BROADBROOK, and whose son by her first husband, Richard MAHONY, is mentioned in my 3xgreat grandfather's will. Arthur and Frances ended up in Cape Town, South Africa, and their eldest son married a Helena BROADBROOK who had come out from Ireland in 1859, and I presumed was a connection of his mother's, but I had no idea where the BROADBROOKs came from until I saw this site. There was the whole BROADBROOK family in Youghal, County Cork, well researched, and including a reference to Frances BROADBROOK and her first marriage to Henry MAHONY. I am now back to 1660 - and in IRELAND of all places, where information is notoriously difficult to come by. Apparently my forebears are all buried in Youghal - yet another place to visit!
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