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Descendants of Joshua and Ellen Rooney nee McAvoy

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Half Report 20 Jul 2011 12:43

Hi

I am looking for living descendants of Joshua and Ellen McAvoy. Joshua was born in 1860 at Egremont, Cumberland and Ellen was born in Kilkeel Ireland / Liverpool / Egremont in c 1860.

Their children were

Elizabeth b 1880 in Egremont
m William J Maxwell in Egremont
d 1917 in Eureka, Utah

James b 1881 in Egremont
did not marry
d 1918 in Eureka, Utah

Ann b 1883 in Egremont
d 1905 in Egremont

Joshua b 1885 in Egremont
m Maggie Bone in Egremont
d 1943 in Leicester

Andrew Taylor Rooney
b1888 in Egremont
m Mary Goulding Thomlinson
d 1947 in Egremont

Sarah Ellen b 1892 in Egremont
m James Pratt Anderson
d 1937 in Whitehaven

Edward b 1894 in Egremont
m Elizabeth Park
d 1966 in Cleator

Margaret b 1897 in Egremont
m Andrew Sloan
d 1937 in Egremont


I am a direct descendant of Joshua and would love to be in contact with other family members

Thank you for taking time to read this slightly long message

Regards

Half Pint

jax

jax Report 20 Jul 2011 13:27

Have you tried the search trees? or looking for any births on freebmd?

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl