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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - A Small Detail I Love

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  Margaret McLoughlin nee Flanagan 1835-1908 Thanks to my cousin Marilyn (and other cousins too, I suspect), I am very lucky indeed to have a picture of my 2nd-great-grandmother, and I think it speaks volumes. At first glance, you could describe her countenance as grim. And she has not let what I suspect is the bible fall from her grip. Scratch the surface of those slim facts, and her expression reflects the many struggles that she faced. Margaret was born around 1835 in Fermoy, County Cork. 1 Her parents were married in the workhouse there by Rev Dr Barry on 16th August 1830. 2 I have not been able to find a record of her birth, but one website tells me that 1832–1834 was a period of "great distress" for Fermoy when a cholera epidemic struck. 3 Somehow, Margaret made her escape, and the next record shows her marrying Patrick McLoughlin in Prescot, England, in 1858. Neither party to the marriage could write. Patrick is described as a labourer. Margaret has no rank or profes...
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Mundane to Magnificent - Ancestors from 100 years ago

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  The lovely Carmel Galvin has come up with this meme for National Family History Month.  Which of your ancestors were alive 100 years ago, and what did their daily life encompass? So which of my ancestors were alive? I'm only going to look at the direct line of ancestors. My aunt and uncle on my father's side of the family were both alive. My aunt Hazel would have turned two years old in 1926, and my uncle was born in 1926. Their parents, Ted and Ethel, were both alive and turned 26 and 22, respectively, in 1926.  On my mother's side of the family, both my grandfather and my grandmother were alive.  But I don't know if they even knew each other at that point in time.  They didn't get married until 1934.  My maternal grandfather, Tom, would have turned 28 years old and my maternal grandmother would have turned 24 in 1926. All my great-grandparents, bar one, would have been alive. Edwin Conner was to die the following year, 1927, in the Greycliffe disaster i...
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