Thread: Someone recommended this site

Someone recommended this site to me, so here goes!

I was originally a NURNEY and have spent 10 years (with a long break) researching my family tree. A relative from Australia got in touch recently and has brought me back to the trail. Like hosts of other people I am stuck with the Irish records of around 1807 Dublin. If nothing else I would love to hear anything about Ireland/the Irish from that time.

Hi Joanie35,



Welcome to Ancestry Aid. I hope you enjoy the site and have success with your research. Just post any names of interest or requests for help on the relevant forums.

Hi Joannie



Welcome to Ancestry Aid , hope you find it enjoyable . Best of luck with tree

thanks NURNEY is quite unusual in England, but unfortunatley the Irish have lots of varients of it!!

Hello Joannie, and a warm welcome to the site.



Sally

Thanks Sally - that's so nice of you

Thanks for that - I hadn't tried them, but I've just had a quick look and they don't appear to help much. The trouble is that whenever I search NURNEY, all the results that come up are for the 3 places in Ireland with that name (one is a bog!!). The documents online are too late for my Christopher Nurney born Dublin circa 1807.

I travelled to Ireland about 10 years ago and went to the National Library in Dublin & offices in Belfast. I paid a Dublin researcher, but she wasn't very hopeful for me. I searched the Griffiths records whilst I was there. It all seemed far too difficult, almost impossible.

Now I would just love to know when he decided to come over to England, the conditions/family he left behind, and whether he came over with the woman he married in Manchester Cathederal 15.2.1836....Sarah Taylor baptised St Munchin, Limerick 26.2.1809 by parents Edward & Grace Taylor.

I think I'm getting a bit romantic there as they both lived near Little Ireland - a highly populated and notorious area of Manchester as written about by Frederick Engels in The Conditions of the Working Class in England.