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      • Thomas Kift of West Down
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    • John Pilling of Lancashire England
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    • The Descendants of William Keen of Broughton Gifford
      • Daniel Keen Family of Broughton Gifford
  • Irish Families
    • Stanford Family of Mohill and New Haven Family 1
      • Stanford Family 2 of Mohill and New Haven
    • Bartholomew Carroll of Mohill, Leitrim and New Haven, CT
    • William of Carroll of Ireland, Australia and New Haven, CT
    • Bannon Family of Fermanagh and New Haven CT
    • Brereton Family of County Tipperary and New Haven CT
    • The Maher-Meagher Family From Tipperary
    • Wrynn – Wrenn Family of Gortnagullion Leitrim and Wallinford CT
  • United States
    • Pitkin Family of Berkhamsted England and Hartford Connecticut
    • Goodwin – Smith- McGowan
    • Thomas Burnham of Hartford, Connecticut
    • Gerald – Gerould – Jerrould
    • Hodge of Connecticut
  • Research Tips
    • Helpful Links to Online Sources
    • Keen, Bryant, Brown Families of Broughton Gifford
    • Rundles in St. Neot Cornwall Parish Registers
    • Early Lobbs in Cornwall, England
    • Lobbs in St Neot Parish Registers
    • Houghton in Great Budworth PR
    • Pilling BMD in Culcheth-Winwick
    • Mannix BMD in Doneraile, Cork
    • Mannix-Guinee-Brushnahan BMD Ballyclough Cork
    • Mannix-Guinee Kanturk BMD
St Leonards Hatfield Hertfordshire
Burnham 

The Confusing Origins of Thomas Burnham – A RePost

January 17, 2023 JustMaryp 0 Comments Burnham, Hartford, research

Note:  I was recently going over some of my Burnham research when I realized that the post below was linked

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Richmond Bridewell Prison, Dublin Ireland
Ireland Research Stanford 

Edward Stanford – From Soldier to Criminal

January 4, 2023January 5, 2023 JustMaryp 0 Comments crime, Mohill

I was cleaning up some old genealogy folders on my pc and came across an article (below) that I had

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A view of Battlesbury Hillfort in Wiltshire, England
England Wiltshire 

Genetic Tie To Celtic Dobunni Tribe

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 JustMaryp 0 Comments Celtic, Celts, DNA, Dobunni

I used to say that although I’m technically half English / Half Irish, I’m 99% Celtic. I based this on

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Postcard of Birmingham England Street Scene in about 1900
Research Tips 

Splitting Up Was Easier In The Early 1900’s

November 26, 2022November 26, 2022 JustMaryp 0 Comments genealogy

In my years of research, I have found multiple couples who show up in census reports as widowed when they

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Moses and Fanny Richardson Baptisms
Lincolnshire Research Tips Richardson 

Assumptions In Research Are Tricky

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 JustMaryp 0 Comments Assumptions, Baptisms, newspapers

While working on one of my Richardson family in Lincolnshire, England, I came across an Ancestry Tree that had a

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Portland CT Quarries
Connecticut Middlesex County Ratcliffe 

Interesting Story About the Portland CT Quarries

May 13, 2022 JustMaryp 0 Comments Brownstone, Connecticut History, Portland

Members of my Ratcliffe family from Cheshire, England traveled to the US in the 1880s and worked at the Portland

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Gettysburg Lost Love Cover
Research United States 

Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt Release Date

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 JustMaryp 0 Comments

As some of you will recall, I did some research for Historian Jeff Harding awhile ago that resulted in some

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Madison Street 1868
Bannon Research 

New Answers to Old Questions on Bannon Family

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 JustMaryp 0 Comments Bannon, Fermanagh, New Haven

There have been other times in my years of genealogy research when re-visiting the records for a family turn up

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Samuel Ratcliffe Death
Ratcliffe Research Tips 

Another Case of Family Lore Changing Details The Death of Samuel Ratcliffe

July 3, 2021July 3, 2021 JustMaryp 0 Comments England, Family Lore, Lancashire

It’s been years since I did any serious research on the Ratcliffe family of Cheshire and Lancashire, England.  Recently, due

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Swansea Wales Union Workhouse
Morgan Research 

The Sad Circumstances of Morgan Bevan’s Family

May 29, 2021May 29, 2021 JustMaryp 0 Comments Bevan, morgan, Swansea

I recently was working on a DNA match match for my Morgan family. Elizabeth Morgan born 1815, the daughter of

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Broughton Gifford 1777
England Wiltshire 

The Keen Family of Broughton Gifford – Good Old Research and a DNA Mystery

December 19, 2020December 20, 2020 JustMaryp 0 Comments Brown, Bryant, DNA, Keen

I had done some preliminary research on my the family of my Great Great Grandmother, Dora Keen Wardell, a while

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