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Descendants of Joshua and Ellen Rooney nee McAvoy

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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

Half

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