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Thanks again Pam. Yes, we'll bite the bullet and send off for the marriage certificate, which should give us the leads we need. We'll also follow up on death notices.

Thanks - yes, we will follow this up.

Many thanks for your helpful information, some of which corresponds with what we have already found out about our Connolly relatives, and the rest for us to further research and follow up.
We're...

My wife and I are searching for information on her great uncle Patrick Connolly born 1863. Patrick's parents were Colin Connolly (1841–1883) and Anna Brannan (1839–1908). But where did Patrick...

Thank you for this information. Yes I think that you are right and that Francis Dixon and Michael O'Shea were both widowers and had children with their first wives. All very confusing to try and...

Thank you for this information. Yes I think that you are right and that Francis Dixon and Michael O'Shea were both widowers and had children with their first wives. All very confusing to try and...

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Thanks so very much for this information. I do have some of this already but certainly you have produced plenty of new information for me to follow up. I think things are more complex than...

Thanks for this information. I will continue to keep researching this family. Quite a few links are coming to light.
Thanks again.

Thanks for taking time to check this out for me. I will keep this information for future reference. Thanks again .

Thanks for this very helpful information. I will add it to my research notes and continue to try and draw up a final accurate record. Many thanks again.

Thanks for your reply. It is interesting to see that indeed Jane may have had two children in her first marriage to Francis Dixon and have lived with Francis' parents in Sunderland. It has also...

Thanks for this useful information. I now am sure that Francis was also known as Frank and that he was widowed and later married Jane . Frank had children from his first marriage. Thanks again for...

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I think that maybe you have found some useful links. I am obviously not sure in Francis was also known as Frank b ut James Connolly is almost certain to be Jane's...

Thanks for your reply. Charles, I think is Charles Brannan, Jane's uncle (Mother's brother). I will follow up on this information you have given me.

Jane Connolly was born in 1871 in Felling, County Durham. Her parents Colin and Ann Connolly also had Patrick (1863-?), Mary (1865-1946), James (1876-?) and three deceased sons (two Johns and a...

Many thanks. Sorry for delay – but will follow that up.

That's interesting. That address is his grandparents and we think that on 11 March 1948 he sailed on the Apapa for Lagos in Nigeria. But we don't know when he came back. We're also trying to...

Very interesting. We didn't know this. These details will be enough thanks.

Thanks again for your wonderful help. We'd found some of these but not the Edinburgh ones. Good idea to follow up with the marriage certificate, which we'll do. We're still trying to establish when...

From our own searches we believe he married Peggy Edith Blaze, born 4 May 1917, and died 2001. We think they were married on 14 July 1953. We don't know if they had children.
And yes, that's the...

Thanks Pamela. We've searched old address books belonging to my wife's granny and have found a record that suggest that Brian returned to England in the early 1960s. But sadly we have no idea of...

Many thanks Pamela. We'd found the electoral register info and Brian's passage on the Aquitania, but had no idea where he was going at that age on his own. We must see if we can find details of his...

Many thank Jomot 1 - very helpful and interesting!

Thanks Pamela – will follow that up.

Thanks Lesley – we believe that Brian Ingle Brough was born in Newington (27 October 1921) and Margaret Joyce Brough was born in Cramond, Edinburgh (24 July 1925.