Arklow is a seaport, market town and parish, in the county of Wicklow, 46 miles [south] from Dublin, 11 [southeast] from Rathdrum, and 10 [north] from Gorey; situated on the…
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In Search of Margaret Martin
On a certain Sunday, I formed one of the congregation assembled in the chapel of a large metropolitan Workhouse. With the exception of the clergyman and clerk, and a very…
William Martin, Death of a Scottish Miner
Airdrie, 1st September 1852 “My husband was employed as Brusher in #4 Pit Rochsoles and he left our house to go to his work there about 6 o’clock on the…
William and Marie: A Love Story Not to Be
Photo above is Market Row circa 1907, looking west on First South from Main Street in Salt Lake City. Mary’s shop was toward the end of the block. Credit: Shipler…
Finding Missing Pieces: The Bracks of Dean’s Grange
Two Men Fined at Cabinteely Sessions Yesterday at Cabinteely sessions, … The Dublin and Southern Eastern Railway Company prosecuted Anthony and James Brack for removing sand off the foreshore of…
Parallel Sourcing: Sailing to America!
O father, never learned to write O mother, heart of eternal loving Where are your stories? How may I know you? Are you not written in my bones, Genetic blueprint…
Finding the Details: William Martin Goes Yukon!
I knew that my Great Uncle William S. Martin had spent four years in the Yukon. He appears on the 1901 Canada Census, captured as he was returning to the…
Ancestry Hack #1: Follow That Census Taker!
Martinstown, County Meath, Ireland, August 18th, 1831. SIR, I have been favoured with two copies of your circular on the census of the population. I would wish to know what…
Penmanship Speaks: Mary, Mary, Mourns Her Baby!
“Then the child opened its eyes, and looked up into the angel’s beautiful face, which beamed with happiness, and at the same moment they were in heaven, where joy and…