Workington on a wet afternoon


Then the fun begins with great, great family if you look a bit further back and you discover links that head all over the place. My Paternal side & my Wife's Maternal side took us over to Ireland pre-census. The surnames were a dead giveaway, plus the fact slight changes at birth reg. & census entry had been made to get away from the feelings toward the Irish influx around late 1700s/early 1800s. My Mother & Father believed their descendants had come from Scotland, which they probably did as a stop off en-route from Ireland in the search for employment/income that led them to the NE after being employed in Cumberland ( I actually found & saw one place & unit a relative had worked in Cumb.). I'd possibly expect your surname to also lead to Ireland. I'll p.m. you the surnames

Yeah, I've done the Ireland thing in the 1800's and it's boody hard work. A census only has head of house then number of people, useless tbh when trying to go further back.
 
Yeah, I've done the Ireland thing in the 1800's and it's boody hard work. A census only has head of house then number of people, useless tbh when trying to go further back.

I can't remember where or how I got as far as I did [re: Barrow, Whitehaven, Plumpton, Dalston, etc] so whether it was things I was told by my parents (along with threir birth certs) that gave me other things to check & look at, or purely about the copied census entries (with addresses) tracked by my old friend or his genealogy interests with methods of finding other links. On a sparate point: I discovered that my maternal Grandfather had a second son I knew nothing about from an earlier marriage who had moved to the Blaydon area from Barrow around the same time that he did.
 
My family did the opposite journey, from the NE to Cumbria and eventually Whitehaven. As I've posted on other threads, we believe we are related to the Penshaw Monument architects.
 
My family did the opposite journey, from the NE to Cumbria and eventually Whitehaven. As I've posted on other threads, we believe we are related to the Penshaw Monument architects.

That is something that my wife and I are interested in doing if we get around to it. One day.......
 
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