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Any information on the above? All I know is that he was baptised in St Pauls RC church on the Falls Road and subsequently moved to Kells County Meath - where married Jane McGuire in 1916. Served in WW1 and may have been invalided out. Died in 1954 in Liverpool. Thanks for any information you might have.

If this is his death...it gives a birth year of abt 1891

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James Keyes in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: James Keyes
Death Age: 63
Birth Date: abt 1891
Registration Date: Sep 1954
Registration district: Liverpool North
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 10d
Page: 124

Thank-His actual death certificate says he was 66 when he died in 1954 hence the birth year I originally gave.

Maybe??

James Kayes
8th Aug 1888
14 Church Street Belfast County Down
Father James Occ: Iron Turner
Mother Jane (nee McKnight)

Link to birth reg: (3rd one down)

https://tinyurl.com/ycou9lmh

on 1916 marriage cert james is 26 and a soldier

father is george a carpenter


https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

I can't find the marriage certificate, can you give any more details.

Hello Richard,

Click the link safc gave you, and then click 'civil records'. Type in the search James Keys 1916 Kells and tick marriage. After verifying you are not a robot you can view the image of the marriage.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie

Marriage: 19th Feb 1916- Roman Catholic Church of Kells, County Meath.

James Keys 26 Bachelor Soldier
Father: George Keys, carpenter

Jane Maguire 22 Spinster servant
father: Patrick Maguire, coachsmith

Witnesses: Annie Jackson, Joseph Maguire

Richard, where did the information re James' baptism come from?

Thanks but i can't find the marriage on the site. would it be possible to give me all the details on the marriage certificate including Jane's father.

George is the right father, not James.
Can anyone find a George in Belfast who might be James's father

Thanks a lot

All the information on the marriage cert is as AQ stated. There's no more detail.

As you apparently already knew that his father was George, is there anything else you haven't told us about him which might provide us with any clue?

I don't see any likely George in Belfast - or anywhere in Ireland in 1901 or 1911.

Well the GRO record does say 63

KEYES, JAMES 63
GRO Reference: 1954 S Quarter in LIVERPOOL NORTH Volume 10D Page 124

And his age at marriage in1916 equates to a birth c1890

2 james keys born scotland



Surname Forename Gender Year Ref RD Name Image View
KEYS

JAMES MICHAEL

M

1889

644/6 111

St Rollox

View image (6 credits)
KEYS

JAMES

M

1893

564/2 419

Greenock West

What happened to Jane?
Could this be her death??


SR District/Reg Area - Kells
Death of JANE KEYS in 1948
Name JANE KEYS
Year of Death 1948
Group Registration ID 2452930
SR District/Reg Area Kells
Deceased Age at Death 55


Informant: M McGregor, daughter


EDIT:
However, I don't see the birth of an M Key(e)s, so maybe not.

James and Jane did have three sons, all born in Kells.

Joseph V, 1929
George P ,1931
John E, 1934

Are you sure the James who died in Liverpool is the same one who married in Kells?

I ask because of this:

[KEYES] James
(St John’s Cemetery Kells County Meath Ireland)
[KEYES] Jane née Maguire
(St John’s Cemetery Kells County Meath Ireland)


EDIT:
Though I suppose he could have died in Liverpool, then been buried in Kells.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2l3bg6

????

Baptism: 8 Jun 1887 St Barnabas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
William James Kees - [Child] of George Kees & Elizabeth
Born: 20 Mar 1887
Abode: 3 Court 1 House Brassey St.
Occupation: Shipwright
Baptised by: Richard Postance
Register: Baptisms 1841 - 1892, Page 356, Entry 3460
Source: LDS Film 2147909



Shipwright - definition of shipwright by The Free Dictionary
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/shipwright
Noun. 1. shipwright - a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels. ship builder, shipbuilder. wright - someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)

James died in Liverpool and was taken back to Ireland for burial. The Jane who died in in 1948 is buried in the same plot as her husband James in Kells.

There is a baptismal certificate for James from St Pauls RC church on the Falls Road Belfast so I think this is his likely birthplace.

Thanks so much to everybody for the information.

Richard, what is the date of the baptism? Does it list his parents?

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D3233956

(if above James Keyes)

Chris :)

Silver War Badge Roll Transcription (Find My Past)

First name(s) James
Last name Keyes
Service number 17858
Rank Corporal
Badge number 339119
Enlistment date 23-Jan-1915
Discharge date 08-Mar-1918
Regiment/unit R. Irish Fus.
Cause of discharge Sickness Para (b)
Whether served overseas Yes
Badge date of issue 26-Mar-1918
Age on discharge 29

http://www.researchingww1.co.uk/silver-war-badge

(above with more info. on b)


(if anything more on Ancestry Military)


http://www.belfastforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=20146.0

(if George on above)

("he died in 1893 at his daughters Sarah Morrow home in Trench St.")


Ireland Marriages 1845-1958 Transcription (Find My Past)

First name(s) William
Last nameMorrow
Registration year1883
Registration quarter Oct - Dec 1883
Registration district Belfast
Volume 1
Page 358
William Morrow married one of these people
Margaret Jane Mathers, Sarah Keys


1901
Residents of a house 59 in Matilda Street (St. George's Ward Belfast, Antrim)
Keys Agnes 20 Female Boarder Prebysterian Belfast Servant Cannot read Irish Not Married -
Morrow John 25 Male Brother Prebysterian Belfast General Labourer Read and write - Not Married -
Morrow William 36 Male Head of Family Prebysterian Belfast Labourer Read and rite Irish Married -
Morrow Agnes 56 Female Visitor Prebysterian Belfast House Keeper Cannot read Irish Widow -
Telford Robert 4 Male Visitor Prebysterian Belfast Scholar Cannot read Irish Not Married -
Morrow Sarah 37 Female Wife Prebysterian Belfast Weaver Read and write Irish Married


1911
Residents of a house 19 in Matilda Street (St. George's, Antrim)
Family Presbyterian Belfast Dock Labourer Read and write Irish Married - 27 - -
Morrow Sarah 40 Female Wife Presbyterian Belfast P L Weaver Read and write Irish Married - 27 - -
Keys Agnes 30 Female Step Sister Presbyterian Belfast P L Weaver Read and write Irish Single - - - -
Bingham Jessie 49 Female Boarder Presbyterian Belfast P L Weaver Read and write Irish Widow - 28 1 1
Hartley Maggie Ann 49 Female Boarder Presbyterian Belfast P L Weaver Read and write Irish Widow - 25

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/


http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/index.htm

(BELFAST STREET DIRECTORIES)

1890
KEEGAN STREET
21. Keys, George, cabinet maker

The only George Keys I see that fits in Belfast died in 1893 age 50. He was a cabinet maker, married to Jane McGibbon.

Jane died in 1890 age 48. The last child I can see for George and Jane was Elizabeth, born 1886. I don't see a son James for them.

George Keys and Jane Mcgibbon look a really good fit. What other children did they have. Marriage?

The record of military service is definitely him.

Thanks so much.