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Mick Molloy
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Username: mick
Post Number: 39
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 12:41 am: | 
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Has anyone done any research on school records? I have come across the Register records for four Titanic Passengers from our locality: John Bourke, Mary Bourke, Mary Canavan, Annie McGowan. |
Emma Richardson
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Username: emy
Post Number: 117
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 7:55 pm: |
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Hi Mick
I have researched school records - both for the Ford children and also for other genealogy research. Personally I find them a fantastic resource for furthering research - well at least the ones I have used are - and I have spent many hours reading log books 
Sadly I have yet to find mention of the disaster in any I have read for East Sussex UK, they usually talk a lot about the weather and also what sort illnesses were making the rounds at various times. Read through the ones you have found, all information helps to build a picture of the families who attended the school and of the people who helped with the upkeep of the school. Can I ask where you found them though? in a record office or a private source?
Em |
Mick Molloy
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Username: mick
Post Number: 40
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 11:34 pm: |
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Emma
Thank your for your reply. I live in a small rural parish in the West coast of Ireland; population in 1911 c1600, now c770. 14 people from the parish were on the Titanic. Three survived. At the time there were four national schools; Lahardane, Bofeenaun, Massbrook & Rathkell. Partial Register records exist prior to 1900 for two schools. These registers yielded four records. One record is for a survivor, Annie McGowan. It states: "Gone to USA". Interestingly the entry for Annie makes no reference to the disaster, or the devastating effect on our locality.
Hope this helps.
Mick Molloy |
Inger Sheil
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Username: isheil
Post Number: 3203
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 12:50 am: |
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I've done some work on Harold Lowe's school records, Mick - also James Moody's record on the training ship Conway. |
Mick Molloy
Member
Username: mick
Post Number: 41
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 10:26 pm: |
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Thanks Inger. It was quite a strange feeling coming across the records in the two tattered registers. John & Mary Bourke's records are dated 1878 and 1879 respectively. I tried to upload one as a jpeg, but the file was too big. There is no broadband yet in the rural west, we operate on 46.6 kbps! |
